22 kids and counting star mum Sue Radford has seemingly ended her rumoured feud with her pregnant daughter Millie during her latest holiday abroad to Florida as she took to social media on Tuesday to post a public message to the 22-year-old.
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law has led some administrators to censor any content that is sexual in nature unless it pertains to an academic standard.The Hillsborough County School District determined that many of Shakespeare’s works deal with or allude to sexuality (not to mention those works that contain cross-dressing characters), and should therefore be edited. As a result, some of the Bard’s classics, like Romeo and Juliet, Macbeth, and Hamlet, now have been barred from the classroom, with students only reading excerpts of the plays in order to meet basic curriculum standards.The district said that teachers who violate the content restrictions for English classes could be subject to disciplinary action or have a complaint filed against them by a parent who believes the books or plays are “inappropriate” for minors to read.If a student wishes to read the censored plays in their entirety, they’ll have to pursue other ways of obtaining the texts on their own time, such as by seeking them out at a public library or privately-owned bookstore not subject to state regulation.Previously, English classes in the district required students to read at least two novels or plays during the school year.
Now, students will read one novel and excerpts from five to seven books or plays, reports the Tampa Bay Times.The district argued that the redesigned curriculum was to ensure students were prepared for a new set of state exams covering an array of books and writing styles. “We need to make sure our students are prepared with enough material during the year so they will be prepared for their assessments,” district spokeswoman Tanya Arja told the Times, noting that with excerpts, schools can avoid exposing students to any racy or sexual content.“It was also in
.22 kids and counting star mum Sue Radford has seemingly ended her rumoured feud with her pregnant daughter Millie during her latest holiday abroad to Florida as she took to social media on Tuesday to post a public message to the 22-year-old.
Hurricane Idalia has been upgraded to a major Category 3 storm with maximum sustained winds near 120 mph. At 11 p.m. PT, Idalia sat about 100 miles south of the Florida coast. It is expected to make landfall somewhere in the Big Bend region of the state with a storm surge between 12 and 16 feet.
Several multiplexes in Florida are seeing their final shows tonight before Hurricane Idalia hits the state in what’s expected to be a Category 3 storm with surges of 15 feet on the Gulf Coast side.
With Hurricane Idalia projected to hit the Florida coast near the state capital of Tallahassee at or near major hurricane strength (Category 3 and above), Walt Disney World and Universal Orlando Resort have taken the precautions of closing some attractions and modifying early opening hours, respectively.
Ryan Preece is reportedly okay after a terrifying accident.
This certainly was not a neighborly thing to do! A man in Florida has been accused of injecting a “chemical agent” underneath the front door of his upstairs neighbor’s apartment.
Anna Carteret was one of the biggest television stars of the 1980s, known to millions as Inspector Kate Longton in the hit BBC TV police drama, Juliet Bravo. Running for five years from 1980 to 1985, Juliet Bravo was ground-breaking in its time.
A new study shows that nearly 40% of Florida residents have considered leaving the state since the passage of the “Don’t Say Gay” law, with local Republicans encouraging the law’s detractors to follow through on such plans. According to a new survey by the Williams Institute, an LGBTQ policy think tank at UCLA’s School of Law, half of the 40% considering leaving Florida claimed they “very much so” wished to leave the state.Overall, 11% of survey respondents said they would likely move within the next two years.
The Walt Disney Co. filed a counterclaim against the Ron DeSantis-appointed board of a special district that covers its Florida theme parks, seeking damages and the enforcement of a set of development contracts.
to run for a U.S. Senate seat in Florida, TMZ confirmed.
Britain's biggest family have been ravaged by swarms of mosquitos on their 18th vacation in 20 months. Headed up by mum-of-22 Sue Radford and her husband Noel, this colossal brood flew Stateside earlier in the week, with various videos being uploaded to social media documenting their trip to Miami's Richmond West area, where temperatures reach 33 degrees with ease.
Clayton Davis Senior Awards Editor The French drama “The Pot-au-Feu,” one of the breakout hits at the Cannes Film Festival and one of the movies that could represent France at the Academy Awards, has received a new title, Variety has learned exclusively. Now under its new title — “The Taste of Things” – the movie will also have a qualifying run to be considered in all general categories, including best picture.
Former NFL running back Alex Collins has died in a tragic motorcycle crash in Florida. The ex-football star was traveling via
The large Radford family are officially taking another break – and fans are stunned to realise that it’s their 18th getaway in nearly as many months. Mum Sue Radford, 48, revealed that she’s taken her husband and their brood off to Florida for a summer getaway.The proud mum of a whopping 22 kids has shared a series of sweet clips of the little ones playing in the pool, messing about in a sandpit and exploring the resort.
its ban on a children’s book based on a true story about a male penguin couple that adopted an egg and raised the chick that hatched from it. Censors had flagged the book for violating the state’s “Don’t Say Gay” law.Lake County Schools and officials with the Florida Department of Education subsequently asked a federal judge to dismiss a lawsuit, brought by the authors of And Tango Makes Three and the parents of five school-age children, who alleged that the ban infringed on their First Amendment rights.According to Popular Information, the book was removed from library shelves because the penguin couple was the same sex.
Tekashi 6ix9ine is in some legal trouble.
Ron DeSantis’s attorneys say that The Walt Disney Co. lacks standing to sue him in the company’s federal lawsuit over the Florida governor’s moves to strip the company of control of a special district that covers its Orlando theme parks.
if material related to sexual orientation or gender identity is removed. Districts were encouraged to have teachers offer a modified version of the class.But the College Board, which runs the Advanced Placement program — through which high school students can earn college credits — said that any modified version of the class would not be compliant with college requirements, and could therefore cannot be called an “Advanced Placement” course.
will no longer be permitted to read many of Shakespeare’s plays in full — due to sexual content.The decision is in accordance with the 2022 Parental Rights in Education Act, according to the board. The act, recently signed into law by Gov.
As Princess Beatrice celebrates her 35th birthday today (Tuesday, August 5), she can surely expect a lovely day surrounded by her young family. As well as husband Edoardo and their daughter Sienna, the couple are co-parents to Christopher Woolf Mapelli Mozzi (better known by his nickname 'Wolfie').The seven-year-old is Edo's son with US-born architect Dara Huang and has been fully embraced by Princess Beatrice - who has lovingly referred to him as her "bonus son". Wolfie's mum previously spoke about her young son on social media and expressed her thoughts on why she is so pleased he is educated in the UK, rather than in her native U.S.