Arab student 'kicked to death in racists' attack'

A great young man, had barely been in the country five weeks and was due to return home this coming weekend die in vain on England soil." Mohammed Al Majed, 16, who was learning English at a summer school, was ...

Children bullied by their schoolmates for wearing 'wrong brand'

Pupils who wear 'cheap' logos are labelled 'geeks' and become the brunt of name-calling. These pressure will intensify for young people."Children are so heavily influenced by brands that they bully or shun classmates...

Parliamentary complaint over birthday party

PC is spreading as can be seen from this latest story from Sweden."A heated debate is raging in Sweden after an eight-year-old boy's failure to invite two classmates to his birthday party resulted in a complaint filed with parliament. Nearly 200 outraged comments have been...

The Ukrainian 'genocide by starvation'

" Grigori Garaschenko remembers seeing his classmates starve slowly to death in a famine that killed millions of people in Ukraine. A neighbour driven mad by hunger killed her six-year-old daughter and began to eat...

Children Struggle With Death

OpinionBarry Artiste, Now Public ContributorA Child witnessing the strangulation of their mother, at the hands of the father, one cannot imagine what goes on in the mind of a child.  One wonders what life will...

UBC Scare: The Face of Chaos

OpinionBarry Artiste, Now Public ContributorInvestigators and Associates have released information on the accused  Hwi Lee  whose threats caused the UBC University Campus to go into Lockdown. ...

Parents shocked by 'R-rated' Valentines for kids

Badass Valentine's cards marketed toward elementary school kids have parents and  teachers upset in schools across Canada. Many say the cards, distributed by Scholastic Canada, are inappropriate for children.The...

Selfless cop's story made into children's book

"The story of a police officer hit and killed by a train last year in Itabashi Ward, Tokyo, while trying to rescue a woman on the train tracks has been turned into an illustrated book. The commemorative publication will be offered at a memorial service in Tokyo on Saturday to...

Canada/Afghan War-One More Valid Reason

OpinionBarry Artiste, Now Public ContributorCanadians and Politicans against our troops involvement in Afghanistan, perhaps should reflect the freedoms in Canada we take for granted. Only in Islamic Countries...

12 years of social networks - who was first?

Word "Social network" was first introduced by J. A. Barnes in 1954. Which one was first social network on the web?

Taliban execute Afghan teenager for teaching English to classmates

If ever a reason why our Troops are out there, this is a perfect example why the Taliban must be eradicated from the face of the earth permanantly by any means possible."KHOST, Afghanistan (Reuters) -- Taliban...

Child wedding 'stopped by pupils'

"Classmates of a 13-year-old Bangladeshi school girl due to enter a forced marriage have united to stop the ceremony going ahead, police say. Around 50 pupils in the town of Satkhira took to the streets to demand that Habiba Sultana's wedding be called off, they say. Pupils...

Get a Life... Again! Virtualized High-School Dating

"It was the Friday night after my first week in a new high school and already I was a dateless loser. " Yikes! That's some self-effacement. Ms. Benedetti is describing her experience with a new video game called...

School toilet water cleaner than in drinking fountain

A high school student was so annoyed with an edict from his school that prohibited kids from bringing water bottles to school he used what he had been taught to teach his teachers a lesson. He used science techniques...

Phylicia Moore - Immemoriam

When Lola Moore thinks back to the day her daughter and two dozen ofher classmates said their goodbyes as they prepared to leave for a tripto Ghana, one moment is especially haunting. "The last thing thechaperones...

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