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Lithuania: Predators in the schoolyard
Sex-abuse scandals at two schools for troubled children prompt calls for the country to overhaul its foster-care system.
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Special needs, common problems
Lithuania’s stuttering progress on retrofitting schools for the disabled reflects a trend across the European Union.
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In Lithuania, Sex Education Remains Taboo
KLAIPEDA. Lithuania | There was no sex in the Soviet Union – or so people liked to joke in a time when propaganda to thwart “fetid capitalism” or “Western decadence” warned […]
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In Lithuania, Too Many Teachers Chasing Too Few Pupils
VILNIUS | At 75, Algimantas Adomenas is still spry, agile, and exuberant. He has another reason to feel satisfied with his life: he still works, in a job he loves.
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Arrested Development
VILNIUS | Edita Bagdoniene is a happily married mother of two, but sometimes she gets so frustrated taking care of her young sons day in and day out that she […]
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Lithuania’s Boy Smugglers Go Back to Class
PAGEGIAI, Lithuania | Just a couple of years ago, it was not unusual for groups of boys at the high school in Lumpenai, a few kilometers from the Lithuanian-Russian border, […]
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