Archive for the Children Category


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Teach meth-making and pimp-math! Public school students in the nation’s largest cities, many from low-income households, trail their peers elsewhere in the United States in a test of science proficiency, said a report released on Thursday. Fourth- and eighth-graders in most of the 17 participating urban districts typically scored lower than the national average, according [...]

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Hopscotch is NOT a beverage

I wrote last week about how kids aren’t getting out enough, and this article just proves my point. Young people no longer participate in time-honoured pastimes like conkers, hopscotch and marbles with over half of kids saying their favourite game is the Nintendo Wii. Nearly three quarters of children aged four to 11 who took [...]

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The Pedophile Hysteria

Ok, maybe on the back of my last post, an article about pedophile hysteria seems a little odd, but what can I say? I’m quirky. These days, fewer and fewer people want to take the risk of working with children, due to the belief that everyone is a pedophile. And now, people don’t even want [...]

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If you love your children, beat them

No, that’s not a line from the Koran. It’s something I’ve been thinking about for years, ever since the rise of Ritalin. Dr. Dawg has a series of posts this week on the drugging of children into obedience. While he may not necessarily agree with the language I use, Dawg is from a much earlier [...]

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Senator Chooses Feeling Good Over Doing Good

Senator Barbara Mikulski (D-MD) gave a speech on the senate floor yesterday to push for “Rosa’s Law”. Rosa’s law is a piece of legislation that mandate the phrase “mentally disabled” be used in place of “mentally retarded” when referring to such citizens on health and education paperwork. “In changing the language, we believe it will [...]

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