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Skateboarding School in Afghanistan

Excerpt:

Today I learned there’s a skateboarding school in Afghanistan where 40% of its students are female.

In a part of the world where little girls are getting shot at for promoting women’s education, that’s a pretty impressive statistic. In a part of the world where little girls aren’t even allowed to ride a bicycle, that’s a ground-breaking statistic.

Officially, this makes Afghanistan the unlikeliest of title holders for the highest rate of female participation in skateboarding out of any country in the world.

http://www.messynessychic.com/2012/11/27/in-the-midst-of-a-warzone-there-is-an-afghani-skateboarding-school-for-girls/

Student IDs

THE TEXAS TRIBUNE

Student IDs That Track the Students

By MAURICE CHAMMAH and NICK SWARTSELL

Published: October 6, 2012

SAN ANTONIO —  For Tira Starr, an eighth grader at Anson Jones Middle School, the plastic nametag hanging around her neck that she has decorated with a smiley face and a purple bat sticker offers a way to reflect her personal flair. For administrators, it is something else entirely: a device that lets them use radio frequency technology —  with scanners tucked behind walls and ceilings —  to track her whereabouts...

READ THE ENTIRE ARTICLE HERE AT NEW YORK TIMES and then answer the following questions in your blog.

1. Why did the school initiate this program?

2. What was the technology originally DESIGNED for?

3. What are the practical advantages of the IDs?

4. Do you foresee any problems with the IDs that the students might have?

5. How would you feel if this system was used at EACP? Why?