Girl, 9, wins courage award — but the bullies win
When a group of fifth-grade boys were beating an autistic student at a Maui school, nine-year-old Eileen Parkman told them to stop. They cursed her, pushed her to the ground and stepped on her. A local...
View ArticleCalgary school: ‘We don’t condone heroics’
Seventh-grader Briar MacLean pushed a knife-wielding bully away from his victim — and was reprimanded for “playing the hero,” reports the National Post (Canada). The Calgary, Alberta school “does not...
View ArticleRemembering the Civil War dead
Today is the 150th anniversary of the end of the Battle of Gettysburg, writes Ilya Somin on Volokh Conspiracy. As Frederick Douglass said in an 1871 speech in honor of the Union war dead, we should not...
View ArticleThe school clerk who talked down a gunman
Michael Brandon Hill, 20, walked into the office of an Atlanta elementary school with an AK-47 and 500 rounds of ammunition on Tuesday. But no one will remember the tragic deaths at McNair Discovery...
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