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As regular readers of Aylesbury Life will know I have been pretty cut up over the recent post election violence in Zimbabwe. But what really saddens me as a teacher and a former low ranking local government officer is the fact reported by the International Herald Tribune today that

"Educators [and low ranking govt officers] have become targets in Zimbabwe's postelection violence.... ."

merely for helping to run an election that turned out the "wrong way". Apparently the so-called government wants to make sure we don't see the same so-called mistake again!! Read more »

I have scanned the executive summary to the Byron report, "Safer Children in a Digital World", requested by UK PM. It seems more objective than most if not all -- you could almost say a sudden outbreak of common sense.

To give you a flavour I quote:

"At a public swimming pool we have gates, put up signs, have lifeguards and shallow ends, but we also teach children how to swim."

Oh, so we don't drain the swimming pool of water, then?! Read more »