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PinkNews
March 24, 2018
Transgender columnist Paris Lees, who is the first out trans woman to appear on the BBC's flagship debate show Question Time, put every second to good use in an appearance last night. The panellist spoke on a number of issues including Brexit and the Cambridge Analytica scandal and captivated theÃâà...
Haaretz
March 23, 2018
The children wear school uniforms. There are no air conditioners and the .... And these ways, I believe, can be valuable to any educator or social activist anywhere in the world who is trying to help integrate refugee children into their new environment.” While Uganda is taking in refugees and doing things forÃâà...
Island Packet
March 21, 2018
Opinion backed by facts is what we talked about, me and all of the fifth grade classes at Red Cedar in their Red Foxes school uniforms, gathered in a sunny area at the end of a hallway. The students wrote editorials for their teachers. And they sent them to me. They are impressive. Unlike most opinion youÃâà...
Miami Herald
March 21, 2018
Valbuena snapped his picture — wearing his white school uniform and inspecting a row of Molotov cocktails — and recounted what he had told her on Instagram. As the post went viral, people who claimed they were the boy's family went on television and accused Valbuena of “kidnapping” the child andÃâà...
africanews
March 17, 2018
... the incident was contained in a Foreign Affairs Ministry response to a communication from the U.N. Special rapporteur on Freedom of Religion or Belief, ... code and school uniforms; and it hired foreign nationals without valid permits and approval of the Ministry of Education regarding their qualifications.
PinkNews
March 11, 2018
A 15-year-old has told politicians to support gender neutral school uniforms, saying that gendered uniforms were restrictive for all pupils. ... telling anyone to take away their skirts, I'm telling you all that pupils should have the freedom to dress appropriately for their personal identity regardless of their gender.
Utica Observer Dispatch
March 10, 2018
Do school uniforms create a sense of belonging, mask socioeconomic differences among students and save parents money? Or do they strip students of ... “Usually, when a school uniform policy is implemented, there are other changes going on as well,” he said. That makes it hard to figure out the specificÃâà...
BBC News
March 7, 2018
On the morning of any wedding there's a lot of preparation. On 4 November, Monika's hair needed doing and her make-up had to be artfully applied. The bride needed her maroon wedding sari put on, as tradition dictated. The jewellery set aside for this special day had to be placed on her ears and noseÃâà...
Inquirer.net
March 6, 2018
The son of activist-poets, he was named after another activist-poet who died in the South. ... do everything: waking up at 4 a.m. to cook breakfast so he could make his 6 a.m. class, washing and ironing his school uniforms, attending PTA meetings, and, horror of horrors, being present at his first communion,Ãâà...
TES News
March 5, 2018
On 1 February, Spielman used a speech at the Church of England Foundation for Educational Leadership to voice her “full support” for the decision of Neena Lall, its headteacher, saying “schools must have the right to set school uniform policies as they see fit, in order to promote cohesion”. It came the dayÃâà...
Middle East Eye
February 27, 2018
A lot of Rowley's speech was admirable, in particular his references to Robert Peel, the founder of the modern police force, and his ideal of community ... The appointment of Khan as extremism commissioner, and Spielman's poorly judged intrusion into matters of school uniform, are both part of the newÃâà...
The Star, Kenya
February 9, 2018
Nairobi Governor Mike Sonko operates one of the sewing machine at Dandora green-light vocational training centre which was launched by Korean ambassador to Kenya Young Dae Kwon ,looking on is Carolyne Nguli principle of the institution.Sonko said that Nairobi parents will soon be getting cheapÃâà...
9Honey
February 7, 2018
It's these formative years when we should be setting up relationships with good physical activity and teaching girls about their freedom to move and be in this world. But we are still putting them in dresses and ... Let them run and be free and climb monkey bars. It's as simple as changing a school uniform.
Courier Mail
February 7, 2018
(Pic: supplied). School uniforms are a good idea: they reduce socio-economic disparity; they offer a sense of belonging and unity; the present a consistent public face. Yes, not letting a child wear their choice of clothing does hamper their creative expression. The poor little things can do that elsewhere.
WhatsOnStage.com
February 5, 2018
On a black strip of stage, two women face one another: a girl in school uniform – garishly pink and yellow – and a barmaid in black. They are, in many ways, ... Rather than counting the seconds, as per official advice, they seek security in storytelling – finding freedom through escapism. Raczka gives us anÃâà...
The New Yorker
September 6, 2017
My daughter's school uniform, required by the public magnet middle school where she began sixth grade last week, is perfectly nice. .... the right to such overt political expression—the armband, the political button or patch—would still be upheld by courts, the spirit behind that freedom has disappeared.
Mansfield News Journal
December 31, 1999
Senior High junior Kimara Wilson asked the panel what could be done to relax or even eliminate the school's uniform policy, saying it stifles students' artistic expression. "Wearing uniforms, we feel like we don't get a chance to express ourselves like we want to express ourselves," she said. "It seems like ourÃâà...
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This article was originally written in October 1998, after a conclusion by the Queensland Ombudsman revived the debate about school uniforms in Australia. What are the argument for and against school uniforms? Are school uniforms merely advocated as an instrument that assists conformity to rules and obedience to authority - in violation with our rights?
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