On This Day
25th February 1964 – Boxer Cassius Clay was crowned heavyweight champion of the world. 1972 – The miners strike was called off. 1982 – The European Court of Human Rights ruled that beating schoolchildren against their parents’ wishes was a violation of the Human Rights Convention. Luckily my mum was against corporal punishment.
Interesting Fact – Education
Hundreds of parents in the UK are expected to keep their children out of school today in protest over too stressful tests. (The first ever “kids’ strike” in the UK is in protest at what parents claim is “over-testing” at the expense of children’s happiness. Key Stage 1 testing (SATS) for six and seven-year-olds, have […]