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and why are teachers indulging the new subculture to the alarm of parents? UK schools are seeing a phenomenon of teenage pupils identifying as cats Most children love to play ‘dress up’ and Katie Harris* is no exception. In the grounds of her school in Bedfordshire, she can often be seen wearing her cat mask and furry tail, miaowing and purring as she rubs up to her friends, who stroke her head and tickle her chin. Such imaginative play would be endearing if this were a nursery or infant school. But Katie — who now goes by the non-binary moniker...

The COVID-19 pandemic has had a troubling impact on the reading skills of school kids in the youngest grades. A series of new studies indicate that roughly one-third of the youngest school kids are behind on reading benchmarks, appreciably higher than before the pandemic. For kindergarten students nationwide, the percentage of students at highest risk for not learning to read rose 8 percent during the pandemic, from 29 percent in the middle of the 2019-20 school year to 37 percent in the middle of the 2021-22 school year, according to a study conducted by Amplify, a curriculum and assessment company....

Fifty people have died in an attack at a market bazaar and a school near Kandahar airport that began late Tuesday, Afghan officials said.... .....The Taliban took responsibility for the attack. The assault occurred hours after a "Message to Obama" was posted to a video site, purportedly of Taliban suicide attackers warning that U.S. troops would not be safe in Afghanistan.

<p>Pakistan Wednesday hanged four men linked to the Taliban's massacre of more than 130 schoolchildren, with parents of victims saying they deserved "no forgiveness" as the attack anniversary approached.</p> <p>The executions, which officials said were carried out Wednesday morning at a prison in the northwestern city of Kohat, were the first in connection with the December 16 attack on an army-run school in the northwestern city of Peshawar. The army has put the final toll at 151 killed, 134 of them children.</p>

It looks like the days of trading half of your peanut butter and jelly sandwich for half of your best friendÂ’s ham sandwich may soon be over if the federal government has anything to do with it. A Richmond, Virginia mother received the following note, telling her not to pack a lunch for her pre-school age child. (source: Momdot.com) Dear Parents, I have received word from Federal Programs Preschool pertaining to lunches from home. Parents are to be informed that students can only bring lunches from home if there is a medical condition requiring a specific diet, along with...

Here is video of kids from the Ron Clark Academy on the set of CNN "singing for Health Care Reform" a song set to the Miley Cyrus tune "Party in the USA." It mentions President Obama, saying "Obama says everyone needs Health Care now..." . . . (VIDEO)

Just a funny thing here I'd thought I would share. Creepy lol http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pxwhiDDsuDc

A controversy has erupted over President Obama’s plan to address your children today in schools all over the U.S. Conservatives have rallied in opposition to the president’s address saying that the president’s agenda may not be one of education or inspiration, but of indoctrination. Those accusations have targeted the “Lesson Plan” that is to accompany the speech, rather than the speech itself. Following the conservative backlash, the White House issued a statement saying the “Lesson Plan” had been “inartfully worded” and the president and his people began to position the planned speech and lesson plan simply as a call from...

Generation OOn September 8th, King Hussein Obama the First addressed the nation’s school age children in an unprecedented internet broadcast. Before we provide the text of His Majesty’s remarks, please review the following memo provided by His Majesty’s minions to the nation’s teachers so they could put his words of wisdom in proper context. Menu of Classroom Activities President Obama’s Address to Students Across America (PreK-6) September 8, 2009 Before the Speech• Teachers can build background knowledge about the President of the United States and his speech by reading books about presidents and Barack Obama. Teachers could motivate students by...

On September 8, Barack Obama will address every school kid in America, reason number 216 to home school. Obama has already sent out an agenda for the teachers to follow. Again, on the surface, not all that ominous, but this is Barack Obama we are talking about here, a committed communist who was mentored from the tender age of 10 years old by communist Frank Marshall Davis. This is Barack Obama who, in his books, says he sought our Marxist radicals in college as well as the Marxist professors. Those were his people.

Chinese warned against stock market Sep 10, 2007 5:26 PM A Chinese province has told schools to caution students against dabbling in the stock market, warning that failed investments could fuel social instability. Chinese students have followed pensioners, housewives and people from all walks of life into the stock market as prices have rocketed in recent months, despite experts' warnings of a dangerous bubble. "Local education departments and schools must instruct students to think twice before investing in highly risky stocks," the Beijing News said, citing a government notice in the southeastern coastal province of Fujian. "(The regulation) is to...

Shamil Basayev, the Chechen rebel who organized the deadliest terrorist attacks against Russia, was killed in an explosion early Monday, in what the director of the country’s security service described as a special operation that began by tracking shipments of weapons and explosives from abroad. President Vladimir Putin declared the death of the country’s most wanted man — who had a price of more than $10 million on his head — in Ingushetia, a region on Chechnya’s western border, a “just retaliation” for the bloodshed Mr. Basayev had caused. The director of the Federal Security Service, Nikolai P. Patrushev, said...

Three lightly wounded in shooting at entrance to Ofra Yaakov Katz and Ariel Nadbornik, THE JERUSALEM POST Jun. 19, 2006 MDA reported that a school bus carrying a group of 16-year old girls was making its way Monday afternoon to the Ofra settlement near Jerusalem when shots were fired at the bus from the direction of the neighboring Arab village of Kafr Sinjil. An MDA paramedic at the scene told The Jerusalem Post that three girls were being treated for light wounds to the back and to their hands. Two of the girls were being treated for shock. Six bullet...

The death toll from a flash flood which hit a Chinese primary school on Friday has risen to 92, with more than a dozen people still missing. Eighty-eight of the dead were young children trapped in their classrooms when the waters surged. Local officials in the town of Shalan, in Heilongjiang province, are being investigated for negligence, the official Xinhua news agency said. In a separate disaster, a hotel fire killed 31 people in Guangdong. The death toll from the Shalan flooding was expected to rise as officials were searching for at least 15 people still missing, 13 of them...

An irate Andover housewife was freed without bail on assault charges after a case of snowball rage allegedly prompted her to chase down some kids with a tire iron and a can of pepper spray. Among the victims was a high school student who reportedly was an innocent bystander who just asked her to move her car. ``(Maria) Needs told him to say one more thing and he would see what would happen and she was waving the metal bar at him,'' read a police report. ``(He) said something sarcastic and at this time, Mrs. Needs sprayed him with pepper...

<p>"Plumber's butt." You know, that blindingly pale patch of derriere that peeks out from between a shirt that rides up and pants that slide down. Most commonly seen when a beefy plumber or other worker reaches or squats while on the job.</p>