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41%  
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  • Parents Worried They'll Have To Raise Their Own Children As Government Schools Shut Down

    03/12/2020 8:50:30 PM PDT · by BipolarBob · 21 replies
    Babylon Bee ^ | 03/12/2020 | Babylon Bee
    U.S.—Parents across the nation have expressed their worry, fear, and shock at having to raise their own children now that government schools have temporarily shut down. Those who send their children to public schools registered their displeasure at the government for not doing its main job of indoctrinating their children, even temporarily. "Raise, educate, and parent my children?" said one exasperated mother as her teen sat at home, bored and with nothing to do. "But that's the government's job! What am I supposed to do? Teach them things? Instill them with my values? Train them up in the way that...
  • Smart New York kids chew on Mandarin

    04/02/2005 3:29:18 PM PST · by MadIvan · 207 replies · 3,409+ views
    Sunday Times ^ | April 3, 2005 | Sarah Baxter
    AMBITIOUS New Yorkers are rearing a generation of “little emperors” fluent in Mandarin so they will be equipped for a global economy that may come to be dominated by China.Chinese nannies who can bring up bilingual babies are sought after in Manhattan, and nursery schools are adding the language to their curriculums. Jim Rogers and Paige Parker are the parents of Hilton Augusta, a 22-month-old blonde, blue-eyed girl. She already understands as much Mandarin as English after her parents hired a Chinese nanny. Their apartment is decorated with words for objects such as table and chair in English and Chinese...