Children

Maryland Students Share Photos Of Moldy, Under-Cooked Meals

September 16, 2015 Daily Mail, www.dailymail.co.uk Resist! Children, Education, Food and Agriculture, health, Maryland

By Daily Mail - Outraged students have taken to social media to complain about moldy and under-cooked food shared alongside pictures of stomach-churning meals allegedly served by a Maryland school district. Students at Prince George's County Public Schools posted images of half-pink meat patties, sandwiches that had buns containing mold, expired drinks and hollowed out chicken nuggets on Twitter. But the students said the horrid images of the food items are nothing new to their lunch trays, according to FOX 5. 'Criminals are getting better food than we are,' Tamera Perry, a senior student at Friendly High School in Fort Washington, told FOX 5. 'You're giving us something that's not healthy, that can possible cause us to die and it's just unacceptable.'

1,000 People Bike 475 Miles To Raise Money For Palestinian Children

August 1, 2015 Red Spokes, www.mecaforpeace.org Resist! Children, Palestine, United Kingdom (UK)

By Red Spokes in Meca For Peace - We're planning for 1,000 cyclists to join us in one of the largest mass participation cycling events of its kind in Britain. If you do nothing else this year - dust off your bike, pump up your tyres and oil your chain for a fabulous week of pedalling and help the people of Palestine." Dermot is delighted to have already received a number of messages of support for the event including high profile figures such as the award winning stage, film and television actress Maxine Peake. "More and more people are becoming aware that justice for the Palestinians is I am supporting the Big Ride as it is essential to show the Palestinian people that we are appalled by the long and horrendous suffering they have endured at the hands of the Israeli government.

Indigenous Children Face Extreme Rates Of State Violence

July 13, 2015 Britney Schultz, www.truth-out.org Resist! Capitalism, Children, Indigenous People, State Violence

By Britney Schultz in Truthout - The plight of Indigenous children recently made headlines, as Canada's Truth and Reconciliation Commission released a damning report calling the country's long-held policy of removing Native children from their families by force and placing them in state-funded residential schools "cultural genocide." According to the report, even before Canada was founded in 1867, churches were operating boarding schools for Indigenous children, and the last federally supported residential school didn't close until the late 1990s. In the US, Native children were subjected to similar policies for more than a century.Article VII of the Fort Laramie Treaty of 1868 stated, "In order to insure the civilization of the Indians entering into this treaty … they, therefore, pledge themselves to compel their children, male and female, between the ages of six and sixteen years, to attend school."

Ottawa Children Honour Residential School Survivors With Art

June 13, 2015 Waubgeshig Rice, www.cbc.ca Resist! Canada, Children, Education, First Nations

By Waubgeshig Rice in CBC News - Students at an Ottawa public school have unveiled four large murals to honour residential school survivors and the work of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission. The four murals, called Mamawi:Together, adorn an outside wall at the entrance of Pleasant Park Public School in Ottawa's south end. Each represents a season, according to teachings from Algonquin elder Albert Dumont. "These students are now elementary students and they're going to go on to high school and university and colleges, but they're never going to forget this experience," says Dumont. "And their views and how they see First Nations, Inuit and Metis peoples from now on is forever changed because of the experience they've had here with this art project."

Report: US Kids Are Poorer Than They Were Decades Ago

May 28, 2015 Rebecca Klein, www.huffingtonpost.com Educate! Children, Economic Justice, Education, Poverty

Teachers reported that kindergarten students from affluent households in the 2010-2011 school year were more likely to have positive approaches to learning than those whose families live below the poverty line, according to the center's annual report, called The Condition of Education 2015. A positive approach to learning includes paying attention in class, keeping belongings organized and enthusiasm for learning. Female students, students who were older at the start of the school year, students who came from two-parent households, and students whose family income was more than twice the poverty threshold were more likely to have positive approaches to learning, according to teachers.

Nuclear History: Did Uranium In Water Kill Infants In St. Louis?

May 1, 2015 Ryan Schuessler, www.america.aljazeera.com Educate! Children, Nuclear Energy, St. Louis

On a Saturday afternoon in late February at the Immaculate Conception Parish of Dardenne, a fresh snow was falling on the graves of more than a dozen infant-sized tombstones. The church bells tolled, signaling the beginning of Mass as parishioners walked briskly through the cold. It was at this Roman Catholic parish where, some 15 years ago, the small congregation’s streak of infant deaths caught the attention of locals and media, both of whom drew connections to the area’s atomic history that left groundwater in the area contaminated with uranium. But the state of Missouri said nothing was out of the ordinary. A health study published by the Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services in 2001 determined that St. Charles County did not have a statistically significant higher rate of infant deaths.

The Numbers Are Staggering: U.S. Is ‘World Leader’ In Child Poverty

April 25, 2015 Paul Buchheit, www.alternet.org Educate! Children, Homelessness, Poverty, wealth inequality

The U.S. has one of the highest relative child poverty rates in the developed world. As UNICEF reports, "[Children's] material well-being is highest in the Netherlands and in the four Nordic countries and lowest in Latvia, Lithuania, Romania and the United States." Over half of public school students are poor enough to qualify for lunch subsidies, and almost half of black children under the age of six are living in poverty. Nearly half of all food stamp recipients are children, and they averaged about$5 a day for their meals before the 2014 farm bill cut $8.6 billion (over the next ten years) from the food stamp program. In 2007 about 12 of every 100 kids were on food stamps. Today it's 20 of every 100. he U.S. ranks near the bottom of the developed world in the percentage of 4-year-olds in early childhood education. Early education should be a primary goal for the future, as numerous studies have shown that pre-school helps allchildren to achieve more and earn more through adulthood, with the most disadvantaged benefiting the most. But we're going in the opposite direction.Head Start was recently hit with the worst cutbacks in its history.

States That Send The Most Students To Police, Courts

April 18, 2015 Susan Ferriss, www.publicintegrity.org Educate! Children, Mass Incarceration, police brutality

Kayleb Moon-Robinson was 11 years old last fall when charges — criminal charges — began piling up at school. Diagnosed as autistic, Kayleb was being scolded for misbehavior one day and kicked a trash can at Linkhorne Middle School in Lynchburg, Virginia, in the Blue Ridge Mountains. A police officer assigned to the school witnessed the tantrum, and filed a disorderly conduct charge against the sixth grader in juvenile court. Just weeks later, in November, Kayleb, who is African-American, disobeyed a new rule — this one just for him — that he wait while other kids left class. The principal sent the same school officer to get him. “He grabbed me and tried to take me to the office,” said Kayleb, a small, bespectacled boy who enjoys science. “I started pushing him away. He slammed me down, and then he handcuffed me.”

‘Teach Philosophy In Primary Schools,’ Says Academic

April 17, 2015 Naomi Ackerman, www.telegraph.co.uk Create! Children, Education, Intellectual, Philosophy

“If we leave questioning the models children have been taught until later in life, it could be too late," warns Professor Angie Hobbs. "That is why we need to start teaching philosophy in primary school.” By this the professor means that children should be taught from a young age that there are other ways of seeing the world to the one they are exposed to by their family and social circle. It's a pertinent and timely point to make, especially considering the current debate around the risk of 'radicalisation' facing young people. Hobbs is currently the only professor of public understanding of philosophy in the world. She believes that just one philosophy class a week could benefit children’s intellectual and social development. Her department at the University of Sheffield – along with organisations such as The Philosophy Foundation – are currently pioneering the teaching of ancient Greek philosophy in UK primary schools.

Trillions In New Wealth, Millions Of Children In Poverty

April 16, 2015 Paul Buchheit, www.commondreams.org Educate! Children, Hunger, Poverty, usa, wealth inequality

America's wealth grew by 60 percent in the past six years, by over $30 trillion. In approximately the same time, the number of homeless children has also grown by 60 percent. Financier and CEO Peter Schiff said, "People don’t go hungry in a capitalist economy." The 16 million kids on food stamps know what it's like to go hungry. Perhaps, some in Congress would say, those children should be working. "There is no such thing as a free lunch," insisted Georgia Representative Jack Kingston, even for schoolkids, who should be required to "sweep the floor of the cafeteria" (as they actually do at a charter school in Texas). The callousness of U.S. political and business leaders is disturbing, shocking.

As Chicago Police Kill Youth, Vast Misconduct Allegations Purged

April 4, 2015 Sarah Macaraeg, www.truth-out.org Educate! Chicago, Children, Investigation, police brutality

On July 4, 2014, as the final explosions of Chicago's lakefront fireworks extravaganza trailed into the water and began fading in the night sky, 14-year-old Pedro Rios Jr. crossed Cicero Avenue in front of an approaching police car, on the northwest side of town. A brown-skinned boy just over 110 pounds, sporting a low fade haircut and the faint beginnings of a mustache, Rios walked in blue-and-white sneakers, shorts and a blue T-shirt - which soon bore the marks of two gunshots, fired into his back by a police officer. The young Chicagoan technically saw the end of his eighth grade year; school had ended for the summer two and a half weeks prior. But given a spell of missed days and poor grades, Rios did not graduate from the neighborhood elementary school he attended with two younger brothers. Pronounced dead on the scene of his encounter with police, he never will.

Treating Child Refugees As National Security Threats

April 3, 2015 Laura Carlsen, www.counterpunch.org Educate! Children, National Security, Refugees

When the crisis of unaccompanied minors migrating to the United States burst onto the front pages last summer, it seemed at last the U.S. government would come to grips with its legacy of disaster amid the current havoc in Central America. The United Nations documented that most of the children were fleeing violence — violence caused in part by the failure to restore constitutional order following the Honduran coup of 2009 and the unfinished peace processes after the dirty wars in El Salvador and Guatemala, where Washington propped up right-wing dictatorships for years. The governments of those three countries — known as the Northern Triangle — certainly share some of the blame for the mass exodus, which is not as new or unprecedented as the press made out when it sounded the alarm.

“Last Child In The Woods” Is A Must-Read For All

March 7, 2015 Katherine Martinko, www.treehugger.com Create! Book, Children, Environment, Technology

One of the best books I’ve read is “Last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder” by Richard Louv. Published in 2008, it’s as relevant as ever in our society where there’s a growing divide between children and the outdoors. Louv believes that kids nowadays suffer from “nature-deficit disorder” – a term of his own invention that describes “the human costs of alienation from nature, among them: diminished use of the senses, attention difficulties, and higher rates of physical and emotional illnesses.” The effects of this disorder are widespread and long lasting.

Study: Black Girls Are Being Pushed Out Of School

February 16, 2015 Karen GrigsBates, www.readersupportednews.com Educate! Balitmore, Children, Education, police brutality, Racial Justice

News surrounding a confrontation in a Baltimore school is raising new questions about the role race plays in discipline for black girls. Baltimore television station WBAL has been reporting on an October incident that led to three students at the city's Vanguard Middle School being injured, and later arrested and suspended, after an altercation with a school security officer. School officials have supported the officer's assertion that she was attacked, kicked and punched by the girls, but the school's security tape shows something more complicated. By the end of the incident, the officer had struck one of the girls repeatedly with her baton — causing an injury that required multiple stitches — and pepper sprayed the two others. All three girls required treatment at a hospital.

America’s Youngest Outcasts

November 18, 2014 National Center On Family Homelessness, www.homelesschildrenamerica.org Educate! Children, Education, Homelessness

America’s Youngest Outcasts looks at child homelessness nationally and in the 50 states and the District of Columbia, ranks the states from 1 (best) to 50 (worst), and examines causes of child homelessness and solutions. The report uses the newest federal and state data related to child homelessness, including the most recent annual count of homeless children in public schools made by the U.S. Department of Education (2012-2013 school year; released in September 2014) and U.S. Census data. The report notes that while progress has been made in reducing homelessness among veterans and chronically homeless individuals, no special attention has been directed toward homeless children, and their numbers have increased.

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