Having kids is expensive, as if parents needed to be told that. But the US government issued a report today quantifying just how expensive: For a child born now, it will cost an average of $234,900 to raise them, and that’s just to age 18.
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FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. - The School Board of Broward County votes to suspend a teacher accused of calling a student "dark chocolate, the kind that nobody wants."
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According to an administrative complaint, the Blanche Ely High School teacher pointed in a Haitian student's face and said, "Look, little chocolate boy."
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