‘I’m a mom. My natural instincts kicked in’
A Long Island school lunch monitor credited her motherly “instincts” for saving a second grader who began choking on a slice of pizza. Francesca Augello, a six-year lunch aide at…
Speakers discuss challenges faced by Thar children
KARACHI: Experts at a seminar organised by the National Commission on the Rights of the Child (NCRC) discussed the challenges faced by the children of the impoverished Tharparkr district of…
SHC bars school from taking action against complainants
HYDERABAD: The Sindh High Court has barred Foundation Public School Hyderabad from taking ‘coercive action’ against students whose parents have challenged in the court levying of an annual fee by…
Teachers protest over unpaid salaries
SHANGLA: In Alpuri, Shangla district of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (K-P), dozens of second-shift schoolteachers took to the streets on Tuesday, staging a protest rally over the non-payment of salaries spanning eight months.…
DI Khan village locks school in protest
DI KHAN: Local residents in a Dera Ismail Khan village took a decisive stand against the chronic shortage of teachers by locking the Government Middle School in protest. The community,…
Principal held for ‘harassing’ schoolgirl in Karachi
The principal of a government school in Karachi’s Saudabad was arrested on Monday following allegations of harassment by a tenth-grade student, Express News reported. The incident came to light after…
Letters to the Editor — Sept. 24, 2023
Boebert’s baloneyRep. Lauren Boebert blames her antics at a “Beetlejuice” performance in Aspen on her “eccentric” and “animated” personality (“Ex defense of vape, ‘grope,’ ” Sept. 20). That personality belongs in…
Tension In Tripura’s Bishalghar After Student Attacked Over Hijab Protest
Authorities are closely monitoring the situation (representational) Guwahati: The situation in Bishalghar subdivision of the bordering Sepahijala district, Tripura, turned tense on Friday as a Muslim school student was brutally…
Scores of students killed in militant attack on school in Uganda
The death toll in a deadly attack on a school in western Uganda’s Mpondwe town has risen to at least 40, with an unknown number of people abducted. According to…
Woke judges say there are topics high school kids CAN’T debate
My four years on a high school debate team in Broward County, Florida, taught me to challenge ideas, question assumptions and think outside the box. It also helped me overcome…