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Saudi-led coalition airstrikes killed 30 people, including 22 children, in a rebel-held area in northwestern Yemen on Thursday, according to the Houthi-controlled Health Ministry. Four families were evacuating their homes in a vehicle when the airstrikes hit, according to Houthi-owned media. Earlier coalition airstrikes on Wednesday killed four people and injured two, according to two surviving family members who preferred to remain anonymous for security reasons. "Four people were killed in the strike before, that's why they fled. They wanted to save their lives, their children's lives. Is nowhere safe for us?" one survivor said. Both sources did not want...

How early in a child’s education does indoctrination begin? “Of course, there are many resources to help initiate conversations and help frame our students’ thinking,” A. J. Jennings writes in the Summer 2015 issue of the periodical Rethinking Schools. “For example, we read Tango Makes Three by Peter Parnell and Justin Richardson.” “This charming picture book is based on a true story of two male penguins in the Central Park Zoo.” Jennings teaches at the Park West Cooperative Nursery School in Chicago, “a play-based preschool on Chicago’s North Side.” “The country’s debate on gay marriage had reached the 4- and...

Brit police inform nurseries to spy out terrorism indoctrination on 4 and 5-year-olds.

A group of ethnic minority kids has been harassing a nursery school in the Nørrebro district of Copenhagen, throwing rocks at teachers, parents and even the young children at the facility. Day care facility Midgård lies next to council estate Mjølnerparken, from which five or six 10 to 12-year-old boys have been causing trouble for the nursery school's personnel and patrons for the past two weeks. Although harassment from estate kids to a lesser degree has been tolerated by the facility's staff and administration for some time, the incidents over the past couple weeks have now crossed the line, said...

Dec. 11, 2003 France shuts two radical Islam nursery schools By ASSOCIATED PRESS French officials have closed two Paris region nursery schools with alleged Islamic fundamentalist tendencies, the Interior Minister announced. "Le Jardin des Enfants" and "La Tribune des Enfants" in the Hauts-de-Seine region west of the capital were shut last week after officials were alerted to their suspected ties to radical Islam and administrative irregularities. Announcing the closures, Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy described the schools as "illegal schooling establishments under Salafist influence." Salafists promote a strict interpretation of Islam. Sarkozy was speaking Wednesday in parliament. He said 101 people...