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May 29, 2008
Topics office, job, search, stress, houston, books, personal, college, schools, food, university, fire, men, women and people
A survey of 2,520 executive made by a New York-based online job search website said office cursing topped the reasons why bosses fire employees. According to TheLadders. com, 38 percent of the respondents to the online survey pointed to violation of office etiquette, primarily using cuss words, as their number one reason for terminating workers.
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May 9, 2008
Topics toronto, globe, plus, mobile, insurance, sports, education, mail, schools, medical, office, life, money, school and car
An audit will be conducted on the trustees of the Toronto Catholic District School Board after Ontario discovered excessive spending by the trustees. Despite the lack of legal authority, the trustees voted for themselves medical, dental and life insurance coverages, plus a yearly $8,604 car allowance. Those with excess funds from their discretionary budgets were generous to schools, charities and sports groups of their preference, which were not authorized under the country's Education Act.
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April 10, 2008
A local elementary school was bombarded with angry comments for instigating a cross-dress day that gave students the option to dress like the opposite sex. The Pineview Elementary School was criticized by the Voice of Christian Youth America, a radio network that attacked the school for telling its students to either dress as an old person or one of the opposite sex, in observance of the school's Wacky Week.
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March 24, 2008
Topics teachers, children, school, education, target, guardian, magic, secretary, schools, play, young and dog
British school teachers are advocating for education reforms, including a return to an early 1980s style of teaching, characterized by a strong liberal education. In essence, teachers are calling for more hours for play and less rigid methods in teaching young Britons how to read. Steve Sinnott, general secretary of the National Union of Teachers, told Guardian Unlimited, "Teachers want a return to a system which is liberal and flexible and not top-down and imposed by government. We want a return to a time when there was a potential for magic moments in the classroom. "
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March 11, 2008
ewbury Park Primary School, located in Redbridge, northeast London, has a competitive edge that no other school in the world can probably equal-it teaches its 850 students 40 languages. According to British newspaper The Independent, the school has adopted a policy of teaching each language spoken by the 40 ethnic groups represented in the school.
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