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Primary school principals are concerned by an increase in childhood anxiety, but say previous methods of management are ineffective.

Skipping camp, public speaking: How schools have it wrong on kids’ anxiety

School leaders are witnessing rising childhood anxiety. But the way parents and teachers are inclined to manage it might hinder more than help.

  • Emily Kowal

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Kate Nielsen, who thinks the survey is a good idea, with her two children Maddie and Teddy.

Parents are being asked to score schools. But are they the best judges?

Some schools boast satisfaction rates above 90 per cent. Now a new survey of parents will aim to gauge parent satisfaction across the state.

  • Christopher Harris
Professor Eva Kimonis coaching Erin and her son at a Parent-Child Interaction Therapy clinic.

In these Sydney primary schools, therapists observe children behind a one-way mirror

For years, Micah responded to his parents’ every mundane daily request with tantrums, screaming and yelling. One program changed that.

  • Kate Aubusson
Author Deborah Kelly

Parents didn’t like a character in a primary school book. Then it was pulled

Parents wanted the book removed from schools, saying it should never have been published.

  • Christopher Harris
Carolyn Weatherby’s son is in grade 7 at Mansfield State High School.

Bursting at the seams, this Brisbane school is adding more students than any other

It has almost 4000 students, but families are still drawn to the school, which last year achieved the strongest ATAR results of any standard public school in Queensland.

  • Catherine Strohfeldt
Matthew Harman and Perryn Herron at Lindfield Learning Village.

Sydney’s alternative school goes mainstream – and gets a new name

The north shore high school that parents have shied away from is preparing for catchment changes – starting with a uniform.

  • Emily Kowal
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Experts say there needs to be more training for early learning educators and outside school hours carers about child-on-child abuse.

‘It is one of the worst nightmares’: Hundreds of children abused in childcare – by other kids

When Rose* arrived to pick up her six-year-old daughter from after-school care, she was confronted with gut-wrenching news.

  • Nicole Precel
Protesters in the Melbourne CBD on Tuesday during the school strike.

Parents warned of more disruption after thousands of striking teachers sweep through CBD

While classrooms across the state sat empty on Tuesday, 35,000 educators took to the streets of Melbourne. But more pain could yet be to come.

  • Noel Towell, Jackson Graham, Caroline Schelle and Chip Le Grand
State school teachers protest outside the office of Education Minister Ben Carroll in Niddrie last month.

Victorian teacher strike as it happened: School closures, rally updates and parent guide during the state’s first government-school strike in 13 years

Tens of thousands of Victorian government school teachers, principals and education support staff are walking off the job today for a 24-hour statewide strike — the first of its kind in 13 years. Follow our live updates.

  • Caroline Schelle and Isabel McMillan
The principal has been called names and threatened.

Aggressive, entitled parents to be banned from school in behaviour crackdown

Principals will be given the power to prevent those who engage in unreasonable or threatening behaviour from coming within 25 metres of school grounds and contacting teachers.

  • Emily Kowal and Sally Rawsthorne