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BOSTON, February 19, 2013, (LifeSiteNews.com) – Massachusetts Commissioner of Education Mitchell Chester has issued orders to the state’s K-12 public schools requiring them to permit “transgender” boys and girls to use the opposite sex’s locker rooms, bathrooms, and changing facilities as long as they claim to identify with that gender. Many elementary schools in smaller Massachusetts towns include children from kindergarten through eighth grade, making it possible for boys as old as 14 to share toilet facilities with girls as young as five. Under Chester's leadership, the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education (DESE) released an 11-page document on...

A RECORD 500,000 workers took a sickie yesterday to celebrate Australia Day and have earned the reputation of "un-Australian bums". The four-day weekend some Australians have given themselves has cost the nation about $250 million. And another 100,000 are expected to take tomorrow off as they wake with Australia Day hangovers. Absenteeism management firm Direct Health Solutions' director Paul Dundon said many workers found themselves in an unfortunate situation this week with the return of school on Thursday and a public holiday mid-week.