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School officials say the students at a Pennsylvania school are getting sandwiches for lunch for failing to appreciate the hot meals the district provides. The Harrisburg Patriot-News reports the pre-kindergarten through eighth-grade students at Camp Curtain School have received cold sandwiches...

AUSTIN, Texas, -- A bill pending in the Texas legislature would require school districts to obtain written permission from parents before using corporal punishment on children. Texas is one of 19 states that permit the practice, and out of more than 1,000 districts, fewer than 100 prohibit the...

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Iran has postponed blinding a convicted man in retribution for throwing acid in the face of a woman in 2004, the semi-official Fars news agency reported on Saturday. A court sentenced Majid Mohavedi in 2008 to be blinded in both eyes for taking away the sight of Ameneh Bahrami by pouring acid...

-- A top court has banned any corporal punishment in schools in Bangladesh, a country where millions of children are exposed to physical abuse, officials said Thursday. Despite official instructions to teachers on alternative approaches to child discipline, many children continue to live in...

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The problem with America is stupidity. I'm not saying there should be a capital punishment for stupidity, but why don't we just take the safety labels off of everything and let the problem solve itself?