Shouting at children and handing out too many detentions in the classroom can seriously undermine pupils’ education, according to an academic.

Bright children could be missing out in the classroom as education policies focus on “overcoming social disadvantage”, according to a leading head teacher.

School children as young as four have been encouraged to give each other massages in the classroom.

Thousands of left-handed schoolchildren are struggling in the classroom because of a failure to meet their needs, according to experts.

Members of far-right organisations like the British National Party should be banned from the classroom, a teaching union conference heard.