The book was a 1990 Pulitzer Prize finalist, but students will no longer find it on the shelves of the school library in Solon. The Solon School Board has voted to ban the Vietnam-themed book, "The Things They Carried" by Tim O'Brien. Members said it is a good book but it's too mature for eighth-graders.Posted […]
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US: School Board Bans Book About Vietnam
US: Two Students Suspended For Web Postings
Content being posted on a Web site is pitting some Valley High School students against administrators. Two students have been suspended because of what they posted on the site Myspace.com. Chris Bright is one of two students suspended by Valley High School for posting a picture of Valley's principal Vicky Poole on the site.Posted by: […]
US: Stepping Up the Attack on Green Activists
A remorseless rapist in Hamilton County, Ohio is sentenced to 15 years in prison for beating and raping a 57-year-old woman. An environmental activist in California is sentenced to 22 years and 8 months for burning three SUVS at a car dealership after taking precautions to harm no lives.Posted by: SoulRiserSource Article
US: A Pentagon Whitewash
Amid feeble excuses, the Pentagon refuses to allow key witnesses to testify in the investigation of destroyed counter-terrorism intelligence. What is the significance of Able Danger, and why are Defense officials so adamant about keeping the lid on?Posted by: SoulRiserSource Article
US: Schools directed to expand history curriculums
State legislators across the country are increasingly directing their schools to teach students more about the struggles and triumphs of different races and ethnic groups -- a move critics say amounts to politically correct meddling.Posted by: SoulRiserSource Article
UK: Girl fires BB gun in school
A teaching assistant was threatened with an imitation gun by a gang of schoolgirls in Liverpool after telling them off, police have said. The woman was left traumatised after one of three girls, all aged 14, pulled a BB gun, which fires plastic pellets. The girls were arrested shortly after the incident on Monday afternoon.Posted […]
UK: Schoolbook returned 62 years late
A retired engineer who finally handed back a school library book he had borrowed more than 60 years ago has been spared
US: Exercise mandatory in Calais area schools
It's official: Exercise is mandatory these days for all students and staffers in area schools. The exercise: singing and dancing. Kids wiggled and sang while waving their arms over their heads, holding their thumbs straight up in the air, and sticking their tongues out.Posted by: SoulRiserSource Article
US: Bone Fragments Found Across From World Trade Center
Four years after the destruction of the World Trade Center, bone fragments -- possibly human -- have been discovered on a building across the street.Posted by: SoulRiserSource Article
AU: Students face increased police surveillance
After US peace activist Scott Parkin was deported from Australia on September 15 for being a "threat to national security" many students he worked with at Sydney University are being put under surveillance.Posted by: SoulRiserSource Article
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