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    Heritage Victoria Girls' High School, Taught In Heritage

    V\LAHORE: Victoria Girls High School is a government girl's school inside the walled city of Lahore and is housed in a nineteenth century Sikh period haveli of Naunihal Singh, the son of Maharajah Ranjeet Singh. The haveli is one of the few remaining royal residences from the Sikh period in...
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    Canada Why Didn’t Sikh Independent School Re-open In Vancouver?

    By Veeno Dewan The B.C. education ministry is looking into why an independent school unexpectedly closed its doors on the first day of classes. Gates to the school – Guru Nanak Elementary School in south Vancouver – were locked when students arrived on Tuesday. About 75 students as young...
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    UK Free School Built By Sikh Community Prepares To Open Doors

    When the building for Nishkam primary school was first bought eight years ago, pigeon droppings covered the floor and most of the window frames were missing. The Regency style grade II listed house on busy Soho Road in Handsworth, Birmingham, had been a hotel, then a nightclub. Parts had been...
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    Pacific Oz School Apologizes For Forcing Sikh Boy To Shave

    A catholic school in Australia, which had forced a Sikh student to shave off his beard, has apologised to him, Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) said. In a communique to Rajya Sabha MP Avinash Rai Khanna, who had demanded Central government's intervention into the incident that took place last...
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    USA The First Punjabi Public School

    by Anju Kaur Sikh children in Sacramento, California, will have an opportunity beginning this fall to attend the first Punjabi-language school in the United States. The Sacramento Valley Charter School, a Punjabi non-profit group, received authorization from the Washington Unified School...
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    Canada Muslim Prayers During Class Time Draws Fire At Toronto School

    July 6, 2011 Muslim prayers during class time draws fire at Toronto school Charles Lewis - Last Updated: Jul 6, 2011 4:24 PM ET A Toronto school that allows Muslim students to conduct prayer sessions during class hours on school property is pushing up against the boundaries set by the...
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    USA Punjabi Charter School To Open In West Sacramento

    Punjabi charter school to open in West Sacramento By Melody Gutierrez West Sacramento will be home to the first public Punjabi charter school in the country this fall. Approved by the Washington Unified School District board this month, the Sacramento Valley Charter School will teach...
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    Sikhism And Gurdwara - Ideal For School Use

    YouTube - ‪Guide to Sikhsim and a Gurdwara - Ideal for school use - School film‬‏ The perfect video to show in religious education lessons. It explains the basics of Sikhism and about their place of worship.
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    World School Apologizes For Making Sikh Boy Shave

    A Melbourne school has apologised for making a Sikh boy shave against his religious beliefs. The Sikh Federation says the order left the boy feeling depressed and embarrassed, and amounts to bullying. The school's principal, who wants to be known only as Paul, to protect the boy's privacy...
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    UK Handsworth Terrace To Be Turned Into School

    by Neil Elkes A ROW of crumbling historic Georgian townhouses are to be revived and given an unlikely new lease of life – as a primary school. The conversion of six large houses in Soho Road, Handsworth, will see a massive extension on the back, including a raised first-floor playground...
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    General YPS School Patiala Told Its Amritdhari Students To Remove Kirpan

    PATIALA: Yadavindra Public School, here known as YPS Patiala has asked its Amritdhari students to remove Kirpan or leave the school. On one hand Sikh students in foreign countries has been fighting for turban and other religious belief but in its home state the school named after Sikh Raja...
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    India 11 Constables Get Pregnant At Training School

    http://www.zeenews.com/news702410.html Zeenews Bureau Mumbai: In a shocking incident, eleven women constables are reported to have been sexually exploited while undergoing training at Kolhapur Police Training School. What is concerning is that their training instructor, inspector...
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    SALDEF Safe Schools Matter (SALDEF March Update)

    March Advocate: Tell Your Senator Safe Schools Matter! Safe Schools Matter—Tell Your Senator Today! Last Call for Applications! Michigan Police Department Training Sikh Awareness Program Held in Arizona DOJ Sues California to Protect Sikh Prisoner’s Rights SALDEF Joins Anti-Hate Campaign...
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    UK Rabbi Opposes Free Sikh School In Slough

    Rabbi opposes free Sikh school in Slough Sikh children A Sikh secondary school is planned for Slough A Maidenhead rabbi has opposed plans for a free school in Slough. The Slough Sikh Education Trust hopes to set up a free school with a Sikh ethos as a solution to the number of...
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    USA Sikhs Want Slough Town FC Site For School

    by Nick Mayo The Sikh trust intending to build a secondary school in Slough has name the proposed new home of Slough Town FC as its ideal site. The Slough Sikh Education Trust says the old Arbour Vale Schools site, in Stoke Road, is the only one that can be supported under the Government's...
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    Canada Vancouver School Has Embraced IPads, IPods And Apps

    No more pencils, no more books: this Vancouver school has embraced iPads, iPods and apps Read more: http://www.{censored}/technology/more+pencils+more+books+this+Vancouver+school+embraced+iPads+iPods+apps/4105875/story.html#ixzz1AytNYyh1 For students attending one of Vancouver’s...
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    SALDEF SALDEF Working For Kirpan Accommodation In Michigan School District

    News release by personal email. SALDEF Working for Kirpan Accommodation in Michigan School District Superindent Issues Temporary Ban Until Resolution is Reached (Detroit, MI) January 7, 2011: SALDEF is deeply concerned over the temporary ban of the kirpan from Plymouth-Canton Community...
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    USA Michigan Sikhs Want Religious Swords In School

    Members of a Michigan Sikh community are upset after a student was banned from bringing a religious sword to a public school. The incident occurred at Bentley Elementary School in Canton when a fourth grader was caught wearing a small saber underneath his clothing, reports MyFoxDetriot...
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    Life’s Lessons: Things You Will Not Learn In School

    Life’s Lessons Things you will not learn in school Bill Gates recently gave a speech at a high school about 11 things they did not teach him and you will not learn in school. He talks about how feel-good, politically correct teaching has created a generation of kids with no concept of...
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    SALDEF Policy Of Discrimination Reversed: Sikh American Child Allowed To Enroll In Texas Public School

    Policy of Discrimination Reversed: Sikh American Child Allowed to Enroll In Texas Public School October 28, 2010 (Clute, TX) - SALDEF in collaboration with the Texas Civil Rights Project (TCRP) has succeeded in overturning a long-standing policy of discrimination against religious headgear...
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