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Girls are increasingly wearing shorts under their school skirts to prevent classmates from taking revealing photos of them and sharing them, a leader of Britain's largest teaching union said. Mary Bousted, joint general secretary of the National Education Union (NEU), said girls no longer “feel safe” in school following a surge in sexual harassment and violence towards them.

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