I don't typically comment on things I see in the newspaper or hear on the news. I guess I'm reasonably content in my little bubble-world and see no point in letting the "real world" infiltrate my acre of cyber-space. But this NEWS STORY is worth commenting on.

Okay, so some mom has gone to the Ontario Human Rights Commission over the University of Ottawa expelling her twin 10-year old sons from a university class. She claims its a Human Rights violation and age discrimination. Seriously. The kids were signed up a U of O class, called the "activism course" and the University withdrew them without explanation. This boggles my post-secondary-educating mind.

Now, I realize that there are always special circumstances, and that exceptionally brilliant children have succeeded in University (Doogie Howser for one). But some how I don't think these two kids are exceptions.

Two crusading 10-year-olds can't say if they learned to be activists before they were expelled from a University of Ottawa class dubbed the activism course. "I can't answer that," said Sebastien Foster ... "I don't know what activism means."