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Education The public education situation in this country has become a chronic example of wasteful and ineffective government spending. It is a travesty that we have to relinquish our tax dollars to under-educate and indoctrinate our children. The public school system’s standards are so low that we have high school students who literally cannot read. The majority of the public school students have no idea about world events, government, geography, history, or grammar. On the flip-side, their knowledge of modern pop-culture is amazing.The Republican idea of vouchers lends a solution to the failed school system. This idea has been fought...

Children will celebrate ‘Girls Football Day’ on 11 October – UNICEF 7 October – As the Women’s World Cup for football draws to a close next week, children around the world will celebrate Global Girls Football Day on 11 October, a day jointly designated by the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) and the sport’s governing body to spotlight the UN agency’s efforts to get more girls into school. UNICEF and the Federation Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) teamed up this year, they said, to highlight the right to play and the right to education, two crucial areas of child...

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