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• TikTok school abuse: Teachers quitting over paedophile slurs

Some teachers are leaving the profession after being labelled paedophiles on TikTok, a union says. A craze on the social media app has seen children share videos of staff with inappropriate hashtags and comments and, sometimes, superimposing their faces onto pornography.
(Nicola Bryan, BBC, UK, November 22, 2021 )

• Arthur's harrowing last hours: Starving stick-thin boy, six, cries 'no-one loves me' in heartbreaking video as he desperately tries to pick up duvet from floor where he was forced to sleep - before he was 'beaten to death by father and stepmother'

The harrowing last recorded moments of a 'tortured' six-year-old boy show him struggling to pick up his duvet from the floor where he was forced to sleep for days on end - just hours before he was allegedly murdered by his father and stepmother.
( Laurence Dollimore , Daily Mail, US, November 23, 2021 )

• Missing New Hampshire boy, 5, found dead in Mass. woods had fentanyl in his system and his death is ruled a homicide: Mom charged over his disappearance called him 'the next Ted Bundy' and 'wanted him gone'

A five-year-old New Hampshire boy who was found dead a month after he went missing had fentanyl in his system and was the victim of violence and neglect, prosecutors said.
(Andrea Blanco and Sam Baker , Daily Mail, US, November 23, 2021 )

• Parents sue school for letting kids use chosen name and pronouns without their permission

A group of parents in Wisconsin, US, have filed a lawsuit against their children’s school over a policy that allows students to go by their chosen name and pronouns without telling their parents.
(Vic Parsons, Pink News, US, November 23, 2021 )

• 'It's a Trojan horse for CRT': Now furious parents push back against Social Emotional Learning (SEL) being taught in schools, claiming its promotion of 'diversity' is more evidence of government indoctrination

SEL classes are designed to help the youngest children give voice to their feelings and emotions; older children will discuss mental health, sexuality and race.
(Harriet Alexander, Daily Mail, US, November 15, 2021 )

• Virginia prof under fire after saying sexual attraction to children isn’t always immoral

An assistant professor at a Virginia university is taking heat for saying it isn’t necessarily immoral for adults to be sexually attracted to children — prompting college officials to put out a statement clarifying the claim.
(Joshua Rhett Miller, NY Post, US, November 15, 2021 )

Update

School places professor on leave after controversial interview defending 'minor-attracted persons'

Old Dominion University announced it had put a professor on leave following comments attempting to normalize the phrase "minor-attracted persons."
( Emma Colton , Tyler O'Neil, Fox News, US, November 16, 2021 )

Old Dominion University places trans professor, 34, on leave after interview defending pedophiles as 'Minor Attracted Persons' and saying they shouldn't be ostracized because 'they can't help their urges'

A transgender university professor in Virginia has been placed on leave after defending pedophiles as 'Minor Attracted People' and saying they shouldn't be ostracized because they can't help their natural urges.
(Andrea Blanco and Christina Coulter and Jack Newman , Daily Mail, UK, November 16, 2021 )

• Virginia school board members call for public book burning of gay books

The Spotsylvania County, Virginia School Board has called for the removal of books with “sexually explicit” content from school libraries with two board members even suggesting the banned books be burned, after a mother found LGBTQ content in the district’s library app.
( Molly Sprayregen, LGBTQ Nation, US, November 11, 2021 )

Follow Up

Teachers & parents rip school board to shreds for suggesting a public book burning

Parents, students, teachers, and librarians were not happy after members of their school board called for book burnings of “bad, evil-related material” in school libraries, and they let them know in no uncertain terms.
( Alex Bollinger , LGBTQ Nation, US, November 16, 2021 )

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• Dean Stockwell, ‘Quantum Leap’ Star, Dies at 85

Dean Stockwell, who began his acting career as a child in Hollywood’s golden age and later performed memorably in David Lynch’s “Blue Velvet”; in the comedy “Married to the Mob,” for which he was Oscar nominated; and on TV’s “Quantum Leap,” for which he was Emmy nominated, died Sunday. He was 85.
( Carmel Dagan, Patrick Frater, Variety, US, November 8, 2021 )

• Ohio to Pay $17.5M to Convicted Child Sex Offender After Prison Guards Boasted About Paralyzing Him

Fletcher's legal team cited text messages and Facebook posts sent by one of the guards, Garrett Osbon... "the dude I broke his nose is now paralyzed with a broken neck, and they say his face looks like he had been dropped and dragged through concrete, LMAO" he wrote. "It feels good to know that I played a small part in paralyzing a cho, LMAO."
( TooFab Staff, TooFab, US, November 3, 2021 )

• A gay teen in Scotland was punched and kicked to the ground and subjected to homophobic abuse in what is being treated as a hate crime.

The unnamed 15-year-old was attacked as he was getting off a bus on City Road in St Andrews on 27 October...the attackers reportedly followed the gay teen off the bus and launched into a violent attack while the victim’s back was turned.
(Maggie Baska, Pink News, UK, November 2, 2021 )