London private school may let boys wear skirts

Last year, some boys from a private school in East Sussex wore skirts to school in hot weather as a protest.

And now, the school has started an initiative to change their uniform policy and allow boys to use skirts and girls trousers, since the number of children questioning their gender has increased over the years. They also want to do allow unisex toilets and open sports to al pupils. 

Eighty institution, forty of them primary schools, participates in the initiative. The government has financed with the objective of opening minds on schools about children that question their gender. 

The policy supports neutral gender, and gave to the pupils the option of choosing between wearing a skirt, trousers or both of them. According to the principal there are more girls that use trouser than boys using skirts, and adds that it's a reflection of what society considers normal and what doesn't, and we can change that.

The parents have reacted well to change, the new rules do not force children to do anything. "They just give them a choice."

Paula Weaver, the principal of Allens Croft, a school in England was the first in the UK to change the dress policy a year ago.

A lot of students suffer bullying and abuses from other students so the school is trying to help the LGTB community, too.

http://www.bbc.com/news/education-39921309

I like the new policy because I think that everyone has the right of wearing whatever they want, independently of their gender. Besides, there are people that don't identify theirselfs with the society classification about male or female. 
Some people feel trapped in the wrong body from the moment they are born, there are boys who are convinced they should be girls. Also, there are girls who say they should be boys. Since we were born, society teaches us how a man should look or how a woman should behave. However, many students disagree with these gender roles. I believe that society should not decide what it means to be a man or to be a woman, and neither decide if you should wear a skirt or a pants.

United Airlines Passenger Is Dragged From an Overbooked Flight

A man was violently removed from a United Airlines flight by aviation police officials at Chicago’s O’Hare international airport on Sunday. 
The accident was filmed by another passenger who were screaming and horrified by the situation. In the video you can see how the officers aggressively grabbed, and then dragged the passenger down the aisle of the plane, after refusing to give up his seat to an employer.

The plane was overbooked, so United asked for 4 volunteers to leave the plane offering 800 credit points, but the volunteers would have to wait till the next plane which was going to be the next day. At the first David Dao and his wife agreed but when they realised that the plane wasn't until the next day and they had to be at work, they changed their minds.

So the company decided to put all the passenger's names in a computer and choose 4 of them randomly, casually the same man who offered himself in the first place and his wife were two of the selected. They asked him politely leave the plane but David said that he was a doctor and needed to see patients at a hospital in the morning, so they called to the police and dragged the man out of the plane.

"Everyone was shocked and appalled," a witness said. "There were several children on the flight as well that were very upset."


United Airlines CEO Oscar Munoz apologized for having to “re-accommodate” customers aboard the flight and said they were investigating the incident, but many on social media said that the apology fell short.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/travel/nation-now/2017/04/10/united-under-fire-after-man-dragged-off-overbooked-flight/100287740/

I think that no one should be forced to leave the flight when they had paid the flight and it's the airline's problem for "overbooking". Every passenger has the right to stay on board and they had no right to draw and violently throw passengers of the flight.
And even more if you have a job and duties to attend that depends on arriving at your city on that plane.

Terror arrest near Houses of Parliament

A man carrying knives near the Houses of Parliament, has been wrestled to the ground by armed police and arrested on suspicion of terrorism offences.

The arrest happens in an area normally full of workers and tourists. 

The Metropolitan Police said: “A man has been arrested in Whitehall this afternoon, at approximately 14:22, following a stop and search as part of an ongoing operation.''

“He is being detained under the Terrorism Act and is in custody in a south London police station.


“Detectives from the Counter Terrorism Command are continuing their investigation, and as a result of this arrest there is no immediate known threat.”

The area around Whitehall has been on alert since 22 March when a terrorist killed five people, including a police officer, in a terrorist attack.

The Metropolitan Police said there were no injuries. Some that witnesses said that the suspect was acting very calm and not acting aggressively, others said that seeing a knife in his pockets and a large bread knife on the ground.

After research they found that the suspect was in surveillance for some time before this accident.




http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-39736733

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Syria war: 2016 deadliest year yet for children, says Unicef

It was six years from now when the first protest against Syria's president began. A group of teenagers wrote an anti-government graffiti and they were arrested and tortured. The protest began to release those children and since then the toll on children has only increased.

2016 has been until now the worst year for the Syrian's children, according to Unicef, at least 652 children died last year and 255 of them in or near a school. This number increases 20% since 2015, and only includes the formally verified deaths.

UNICEF believes that more than 850 children were recruited to fight in 2016, and this number also increase 50% since 2015. Those children are in the Frontline or used as executioners, suicide bombers or prison guards.

"The depth of suffering is unprecedented. Millions of children in Syria come under attack on a daily basis, their lives turned upside down, " said Geert Cappelaere, Unicef regional director for the Middle East and North Africa.

Save the Children warned that millions of Syrian children could be living in a state of "toxic stress", which could be irreversible. Two-thirds of children had lost a family member, their house had been bombed or injured for the rest of their life.

Saja has lived in war for six years and moved home six times because of war. She lost her brother and four of her best friends in a bomb attack. She lost her leg and before that she was a keen gymnast. She says that balancing with only one leg is now too difficult and she hopes to be a professional gymnastics coach.

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-39252307