Taylor Alison Swift is an American singer-songwriter. She is known for narrative songs about her personal life, which have received widespread media coverage. At age 14, Swift became the youngest artist signed by the Sony/ATV Music publishing house and, at 15, she signed her first record deal.
Her 2006 eponymous debut album was the longest-charting album of the 2000s in the US. Its third single, "Our Song", made her the youngest person to single-handedly write and perform a number-one song on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart. Swift's second album, Fearless, was released in 2008.
Buoyed by the pop crossover success of the singles "Love Story" and "You Belong with Me", it became the US' best-selling album of 2009 and was certified diamond in the US. The album won four Grammy Awards, and Swift became the youngest Album of the Year winner.
Scots teachers banned from telling parents if their kids have changed gender in school
dailyrecord.co.ukTeachers have been ordered not to tell parents if their under-age children are identifying as a different gender. Staff at a West Dunbartonshire high school received an email from the head teacher warning them they should not be divulging the information even about 12-year-olds.Pupils can ask staff to address them by a new name and pronouns, meaning youngsters born female will be referred to as “he” or “him” and vice-versa, while also taking on a new name.
But as a result of controversial Scottish Government guidance many local authorities actively conceal the information from parents if the child doesn’t want them to know as the guidance states transgender is “not a child protection or wellbeing issue”.A Sunday Mail investigation has found serious variations in how the policy is applied across the country.
And teachers who spoke anonymously to us have raised concerns. One said: “There are some classes with several children as young as 12 who have said they want to be known by a new name and pronouns.
It is an issue affecting an increasingly large number of young people.“An email was sent out before parents’ night making clear the information was not to be given to the guardians of at least one S1 pupil as they didn’t want them to know.
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