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A German Mom Used To Mock U.S. School Security, Now She Wants More

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Post date December 17, 2012

Security gate at a high school in Michigan Chris Chan

-Essay- BERLIN – My five-year-old son Finn goes to an American kindergarten – a place just like Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut. Bethlehem in Pennsylvania is about as far from Philadelphia as Newtown is from New York – in their own way, both are typical U.S. East Coast towns. Finn’s school even looks […]

Tags bethlehem, children, elementary, kindergarten, newtown, pennsylvania, preschool, primary, sandy hook, school, united states

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Scary Teachers: A Sudden Rash Of Abuse At China’s Pre-Schools

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Post date October 30, 2012

"That'll teach you," read some of the captions of the disturbing photos Sina Weibo

Last week at an unlicensed Montessori kindergarten in Taiyuan, in the western province of Shanxi, a teacher slapped a five-year-old girl in the face more than 70 times and kicked her twice because she didn’t manage to do her arithmetic. While an online video of the abuse was setting off a huge public outcry, another […]

Tags abuse, child abuse, child abuse preschool teacher violence, china, chinese education, kindergarten, Montessori, pre-school, preschool, teacher abuse, violence

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