Culture

School Bans Designer Coats in Order to ‘Poverty Proof’ Campus 0
- Culture
- December 14, 2018
Winter is coming, and colder temperatures mean that our coats and scarves have been pulled from their summer resting places and put to good use once more. But if you’re a parent in the United Kingdom, you might want to think twice before you send your kids off to school in their favorite winter coats.
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Worry Over Kids’ Excessive Smartphone Use is More Justified Than Ever Before 0
- Culture
- December 14, 2018
Parents who fear their kids are spending too much time in front of screens now have more reason for concern. New research funded by the National Institutes of Health found brain changes among kids using screens more than seven hours a day and lower cognitive skills among those using screens more than two hours a
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What Will and Kate’s Christmas Card Teaches about Marriage and Family 0
- Culture
- December 14, 2018
‘Tis the season for families to send Christmas greetings, and the British royals are no exception. The Kensington Palace Twitter account released the Christmas photos of the various branches of the royal family, and as The Telegraph explains, the difference between Will and Kate’s and Harry and Meghan’s photos is rather striking: “The Duke and
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San Francisco Creates First Transgender District 0
- Culture
- December 13, 2018
San Francisco created a special cultural district for transgender persons, marking the first legal transgender district created anywhere in the world. San Francisco’s Tenderloin district is now home to “Compton’s Transgender Cultural District,” The Daily Beast reported Tuesday. The Tenderloin is a triangular neighborhood located a few blocks from San Francisco’s City Hall. It is also San Francisco’s
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A Perfect Solution to the Statue-Toppling Problem 0
- Culture
- December 13, 2018
Schools ought to teach history, not protest it. A number of teachers at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill have pledged to withhold more than 2,000 grades in protest over the university’s plans to house “Silent Sam” in a separate on-campus building. Silent Sam is a statue of a Confederate soldier that stood in
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How School Districts Weaponize Child Protection Services Against Uncooperative Parents 0
- Culture
- December 13, 2018
Schooling is adept at rooting out individuality and enforcing compliance. In his book, Understanding Power, Noam Chomsky writes: “In fact, the whole educational and professional training system is a very elaborate filter, which just weeds out people who are too independent, and who think for themselves, and who don’t know how to be submissive, and so
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