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A row has erupted in the heart of one of Britain’s wealthiest villages after local children were allocated places at a controversial Sikh school despite failing to name it on application forms. More than a dozen children living in rural South Buckinghamshire – mainly from atheist or Christian...

Over half of Sikh students experience widespread bullying in U.S. schools which is more than double the national rate, according to a new report. The report ‘Go Home Terrorist: A Report on Bullying Against Sikh American School Children’ is based on survey of over 500 Sikh students, and...

London: A British Sikh head of a school has alleged that he was pushed out of his post by the school's Muslim governors for opposing their move to ban sex education classes and allow only halal food. Balwant Bains claimed he was made to sign a non-disclosure agreement preventing him from...

Malala: The girl who was shot for going to school Mishal Husain http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-24379018 One year ago schoolgirl Malala Yousafzai was shot in the head by Taliban gunmen - her "crime", to have spoken up for the right of girls to be educated. The world reacted in...

See video at this link http://www.wsbtv.com/videos/news/bookkeeper-talks-about-coming-face-to-face-with/v9ZDM/ The story Clerk talks down would-be shooter at Georgia elementary school By Associated Press...

Free School Meals Kill Indian Children by Jason Burke http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jul/17/school-meals-kill-indian-children At least 20 children have died and up to 30 more are seriously ill after eating free meals at a primary school in eastern India. The children, aged between six...

Nigeria: Islamic Militants Attack School, Killing 30 By ADAMU ADAMU and MICHELLE FAUL 07/06/13 12:14 PM ET EDT POTISKUM, Nigeria — Islamic militants attacked a boarding school before dawn Saturday, dousing a dormitory in fuel and lighting it ablaze as students slept, survivors said. At...

Unconstitutional Christian Assembly At Northwest Rankin High School Published 1, April 20, 2013 -Submitted by David Drumm (Nal), Guest Blogger Northwest Rankin High School is a public high school located in Flowood, Mississippi. On Tuesday April 9th, a student, representing Pinelake...

Girl denied admission by private school for wearing turban http://www.indianexpress.com/news/girl-denied-admission-by-private-school-for-wearing-turban/1094988/ This is posted from Jalandar A family belonging to Amritdhari Sikh sect has alleged that a private school denied admission to...

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Pakistan's Malala Yousafzai in school in UK for first time since shooting AFP | Mar 20, 2013, 10.32 AM IST LONDON: Pakistani teenager Malala Yousafzai returned to school on Tuesday for the first time since October when she was shot in the head by the Taliban for campaigning for girls'...

School buses turning ‘Yellow Coffins’ in Punjab but who's bothered Monday, March, 04 2013 - 16:37 AMRITSAR: Even as the fatal accidents involving the school buses, which are turning 'Yellow Coffins' are being reported from all over Punjab, speaking loud about the 'bloodier roads' in the...

Punjab school boycotts gang-rape victim By Rohan Dua, TNN - Feb 9, 2013, 03.24 AM IST CHANDIGARH: A 14-year-old victim of gang rape in Bathinda, facing boycott by her government school, peers and neighbours, has written to the Punjab state women commission in details that have shocked...

MONROE, Conn. — On the first day back, Sean Murray said, his 9-year-old son, Brendan, was eager to return to school and see his friends, but he was nervous at the same time. “Brendan had two kids in his class whose siblings were killed,” Mr. Murray said. “He’s been getting counseling outside...

Sikhs Win School Turban Ban Case Against France in the United Nations Human Rights Committee By HAINDER SINGH Published: December 15, 2012 http://www.sikhsiyasat.net/2012/12/15/sikhs-win-school-turban-ban-case-against-france-in-the-united-nations-human-rights-committee/ Paris...

Sat Nam _/|\_ In Newtown, CT, there was a shooting this morning in an elementary school. At this point, 20 children (apparently many were kindergartners) and 8 adults. Some died trying to protect the children. Please say prayers. Huffington Post article: Sandy Hook Elementary School...

SURREY, BC, Canada (October 17, 2012)–On October 11, 2012, in celebration of the International Day of the Girl, representatives of SAFAR (The Sikh Feminist Research Institute) visited Khalsa School Surrey for a eighty minute dialogue with high school girls on the seemingly obvious question...

Brampton Sikh elementary school vandalized by racist graffiti Laura Kane Staff Reporter - THE STAR - July 10, 2012 TORONTO STAR PHOTO Ripsodhak Grewal, principal of the Khalsa Community School Brampton, the province's largest private Sikh school, looks at racist vandalism...

Akal Takht demands arrest of lady school principal PTI | 11:02 PM,Feb 26,2012 Amritsar, Feb 26 (PTI) Akal Takht, the highest temporal seat of the Sikhs, has asked the Punjab Government to arrest a lady principal of a school for allegedly converting her students to the Dera Sacha Sauda...

THE most senior Sikh officer in the Met yesterday revealed how his bullying hell at a top private school has inspired him to help other young victims. Superintendent Raj Kohli, 45, told how being victimised at Hutcheson’s Grammar, one of the country’s leading fee-paying schools, has shaped...