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Siblings Robert and Mabel White are used to charting their own course. The two are often the only minorities seen sailing on Lake Champlain. For the pair, sailing is a way for them to clear their minds. This is a refreshing feeling to have just being on the lake and sailing, Robert White told CBS News Adriana Diaz.Sailing has been a part of the siblings lives since they were 6 years old. The two are now determined to change the face of the sport, which has been historically seen as too White, expensive, elitist and exclusionary. In 2020, US Sailing stated in a report that 0.1% of the sailing population is diverse.Owen Milne runs the Community Sailing Center in Burlington, Vermont. He said th stanley cup at the center wants to undo the damage that has happened in the sport, including a time when there was a Whites Only sign on the front door of a yacht club. Last year, the center started providing free sailing camps to kids from diverse backgrounds to better reflect the community, which includes refugees and immigrants from places like Nepal and Congo.Before the initiative, no more than six out of 500 of the community center s sailing campers were not stanley cup White. Five or six out of 500 is not OK. We re on track to hopefully get to 25% in t stanley cup he next few years and we think we can get there, Milne said.To get there, the camp began advertising in seven different languages, including Arabic, Somali and Nepali to find more campers like Adam Alamatouri Ygdb Lance Armstrong ordered to pay company $10M for web of lies
A father from Ohio posted a video on Facebook showing his daughter walking to school in the cold while he drives slowly behind her mdash; and it sparked strong reactions from viewers. Matt Cox said he was making his 10-year-old walk to school because she bullied a fellow student on the school bus and he wanted to teach her a lesson. So today my beautiful daughter is going to walk five miles to school i salomon n 36 degree weather, Cox said in the now-viral video. I know a lot of you parents are not going to agree with this, but that is alright. In the video, Cox explains he is doing what he feels is right to teach his daughter a le adidas campus sson about bullying. For the second time this school year [she s] been kicked off this school bus due to bullying another student, Cox said. Let me make this extremely clear: Bullying is unacceptable, especially in my household. Life lessons!!!!UPDATE: lesson learned! Still has all her extremities intact is happy and healthy and seems to have a new outlook on bullying as well as a new appreciation for some of the simple things in life she used to take for granted HOLDOURKIDSACOUNTABLE STOPBULLYINGPosted by Matt Cox on Monday, December 3, 2018 Some parents praised Cox for his parenting tactic, with comments like that s how discipline should be d adidas samba one. But others said his actions teach the wrong kind of lesson. There are 1000 better ways to handle this situation that don t involve forcing a child to walk 5 |
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