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As school begins in the coming weeks, parents of boys must feel tensions regardless what grade their boys will be entering. It is because boys from K-12 accounted for nearly 70% of suspensions for minor acts of insubordination and defiance. The figure seems reasonable if we find that boys are nearly five times more likely to be expelled from preschool than girls. But another source for this figure came out of the zero-tolerance policies for firearms taken by schools after many incidents of gun violence. Christopher Marshall, age 7, was suspended from his Virginia school for picking up a pencil and using it to shoot a bad guy. Josh Welch was sent home for nibbling off the corners of a strawberry Pop-Tart to shape it into a gun. It proves that sometimes boys were guilty of nothing more than being typical 7-year-old boys. I remember that my boys were arrested for playing a paintball in a school backyard during summer vacation. They pleaded guilty and the paintball gun was confiscated. While processing, the officer on scene continued to argue that a paintball gun was a firearm. For parents of boys, your concern in schooling should be more for their safety from this draconian rule than just for their academic struggle.
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"Manning was under the impression that his leaked information was going to really change how the world views the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, and future wars actually," Navy Capt. David Moulton, a forensic psychiatrist testifying in Manning's defense, told the military court on July 14.(Huffington Post)
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 A year after President Obama warned the Syrian regime that using chemical weapons would cross a "red line," Syrian activists are accusing Bashar Assad's forces of killing hundreds in a gas attack -- in what would be the worst and deadliest chemical attack to date. (Fox)
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"WinCo arguably may be the best retailer in the western U.S.," Flickinger says while touring a WinCo store. "WinCo is really unstoppable at this point," he goes on. "They're Walmart's worst nightmare." (Time)
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British police are looking into new information that has surfaced in connection with the 1997 deaths of Princess Diana and her companion Dodi Al Fayed, Scotland Yard said today. Operation Paget looked into conspiracy theories surrounding Diana's and Al Fayed's death in 1997.(ABC)
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North Korea said Sunday it has agreed to South Korea's proposal to resume reunions for families separated since the 1950-53 war, in another apparent sign of easing tensions in one of the world's most tense military flashpoints. (Aljazeera)
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Left-handed? Today is your day - International Left-Handers' Day, that is - a day to celebrate the 10% who always feel they're being elbowed out by the other 90%. (Time)
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