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  • Pass this bill or the kid gets it

    Do you ever wonder if public officials are escaped mental patients? At a school board meeting in Charlotte, North Carolina, board Chairman Joe White was lobbying for an environmental policy initiative. He then pointed to a 5-year-old in the crowd and said , "if adults don't protect her air and...
    Posted to Strollerderby (Weblog) by Brett Singer on 08-02-2008
  • Happy Birthday kids. Have some carrots.

    Despite what Adrienne pointed out about chubby kids having fewer cavities , a school principal in New Zealand isn't taking any chances. Megan Bowden of the Oteha Valley primary school has issued a decree: no more cake . With a large number of kids having birthdays in September and October, every...
    Posted to Strollerderby (Weblog) by Brett Singer on 04-07-2008
  • I Vote for Year-Round School

    Tomorrow school bells will once again toll throughout the land. At least, they will where I live. For lots of you, school started a couple of weeks ago, or maybe last week, and I'm only partially blind to the fact that hey! there are other countries out there! and it's a whole different season...
    Posted to Strollerderby (Weblog) by Karen Murphy on 09-03-2007
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