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[Link] The Surprisingly Scientific Roots of Monkey Bars
Read: 4/3/2023 www.smithsonianmag.com
A kindergartner frolics on a jungle gym during a festival in Louisville, Kentucky, in September 2017.
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[Link] Brisbane Christian school withdraws controversial sexuality contract after community backlash
Read: 3/2/2022 www.abc.net.au
The contract demanded families denounce homosexuality and that students identify by birth gender, or risk being excluded from the school. Citipointe Christian College's contract describes homosexuality as a sin and compares it to bestiality and paedophilia.
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[Link] School Removes Student Project About Fascism After Cops Complain
Read: 18/11/2021 www.vice.com
Students at an Indiana high school are on their third day of virtual learning because they protested the school’s decision to remove a class project about ‘V for Vendetta’ which addressed police brutality.
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[Link] NSW premier orders grants review as it’s revealed $20m school solar program went mostly to Coalition seats
Read: 3/11/2021 www.theguardian.com
New South Wales premier Dominic Perrottet ordered a review of grants funding in the state at the same time it was revealed more than 90% of schools selected as part of a $20m pilot to fund solar power systems were in Coalition-held seats.
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[Link] Parkland school shooter pleads guilty to 17 counts of murder
Read: 23/10/2021 www.abc.net.au
Nikolas Cruz has pleaded guilty to murdering 17 people during a rampage at his former high school in Parkland, Florida, leaving a jury to decide whether he will be executed for one of the nation's deadliest school shootings.
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[Link] A Black 10-Year-Old Drew an ‘Offensive Sketch.’ She Was Handcuffed by Cops.
Read: 20/10/2021 www.vice.com
Want the best of VICE News straight to your inbox? Sign up here. Ultimately, the child was held for over four hours by either school staff or police. By the time she was released, she “was very hungry and exhausted,” according to the letter.
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[Link] School banking programs banned in Canberra from July
Read: 10/2/2021 www.abc.net.au
School banking programs, like Commonwealth Bank's Dollarmites program, will be banned from ACT schools from July, after a motion was unanimously passed in the Legislative Assembly yesterday afternoon.