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Teachers' union backs decision to drop poem from syllabus

A leading teachers' union in Scotland has backed a controversial bid to remove a Scottish poem featuring a blade-wielding killer from a school syllabus amid fears over teenage knife crime.

A leading teachers' union in Scotland has backed a controversial bid to remove a Scottish poem featuring a blade-wielding killer from a school syllabus amid fears over teenage knife crime.