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Calés McGinnis @CalesMcGinnis wrote: Last week, an Ohio elementary school posted about their first “Ice Cream Friday.”

In the now deleted post, they stated that any child who had a negative lunch balance could not get ice cream even if they brought their $1 to buy the ice cream.

Naiyozcsia Thomason, who owns Mz. Jade’s Soul Food, saw the post and paid off the negative lunch balances so that all of the children could have ice cream.

Mike Rowling, with MSR Transportation LLC, also donated $5,000 so that lunch balances would remain caught up.

We need more people like Ms. Naiyozcsia and Mr. Mike in the world.

Read Let This Radicalize You @JoshuaPHilll wrote: This kid, Jad Abu Hamda, was expelled from his school because of his Mom's posts on social media about Palestine. What the hell are we doing here.

Qasim Rashid, Esq. @QasimRashid wrote: Wild that USC platformed known bigot and racist Milo but won't platform their own valedictorian, Asna.

Los Angeles Times @latimes wrote: The move is the first time the university has banned a valedictorian from the traditional chance to speak at its annual commencement ceremony.
https://latimes.com/california/story/20 ... a-tabassum

The University of Southern California has scrapped commencement speeches by Crazy Rich Asians director Jon M Chu and other honorees amid an uproar over the cancellation of a graduation speech by pro-Palestinian valedictorian Asna Tabassum.

On Friday (19 April), USC announced the decision in a letter posted to the university’s website.

That update came as a follow-up to an announcement earlier in the week calling off Ms Tabassum’s speech over a growing furore relating to the war in Gaza that had drawn in “many voices outside of USC” and had “escalated to the point of creating substantial risks relating to security and disruption”.

“We cannot ignore the fact that similar risks have led to harassment and even violence at other campuses,” the statement continued.

“As always, and particularly when tensions are running so high across the world, we must prioritize the safety of our community.”

Friday’s letter states that “given the highly publicized circumstances surrounding our main-stage commencement program” it was decided to “release our outside speakers and honorees from attending this year’s ceremony”.

It continued: “We’ve been talking to this exceptional group and hope to confer these honorary degrees at a future commencement or other academic ceremonies.”

Chu, a USC alumnus, was scheduled to deliver the school’s commencement speech at the main ceremony on 10 May in front of approximately 65,000 attendees.

In addition to Crazy Rich Asians, Chu has directed and produced a wide range of movies, notably In the Heights and the highly anticipated movie adaptation of the musical Wicked.

Also scheduled to attend and receive honorary degrees were tennis legend Billie Jean King, National Endowment for the Arts Chair Maria Rosario Jackson, and National Academy of Sciences President Marcia McNutt.

Single dad with special needs son sued by Virginia school district for $600,000

News 5 WCYB
20 Apr 2024

A single dad is fighting for his son, a sophomore with special needs at Staunton River High School.

"I just kept noticing things that continued to show falling behind, falling behind and QRI testing just kept showing that he's falling further and further behind," parent David Rife said. "Every time there's been an issue they've just come after me and never helped him."

Rife said his son's reading level is five years behind.