School Survival

OAK RIDGE, Tennessee (AP) -- Copies of a high school's student newspaper were seized by administrators because the edition contained stories about birth control and tattoos, stirring a First Amendment debate.Posted by: SoulRiserSource Article

BENNINGTON, Vermont (AP) -- A high school teacher is facing questions from administrators after giving a vocabulary quiz that included digs at President Bush and the extreme right.Posted by: SoulRiserSource Article

A much-publicised scheme to stop families in England going on holiday in term-time has finally begun. It is hoped the scheme will help reduce current estimates that one in six truants on a given day is away with their parents on a family holiday.Posted by: SoulRiserSource Article

BARRY, Wales - Though he did not know it at the time, the idea came to Howard Stapleton when he was 12 and visiting a factory with his father, a manufacturing executive in London. Opening the door to a room where workers were using high-frequency welding equipment, he found he could not bear to go […]

An elementary school principal resigned after parents denounced her for parading an 8-year-old girl from class to class after a classmate falsely accused her of stealing $5.Posted by: SoulRiserSource Article

Tasha Henderson got tired of her 14-year-old daughter's poor grades, her chronic lateness to class and her talking back to her teachers, so she decided to teach the girl a lesson. She made Coretha stand at a busy Oklahoma City intersection November 4 with a cardboard sign that read: "I don't do my homework and […]

A judge threw out a lawsuit Wednesday that sought to block the No Child Left Behind law. The NEA and school districts in three states had argued that schools should not have to comply with requirements that were not paid for by the federal government.Posted by: SoulRiserSource Article

A Texas man executed in 1993 for a robbery-murder was probably wrongfully convicted, according to a prosecutor, the jury forewoman, an alibi witness and even a victim, the Houston Chronicle said on Tuesday.Posted by: SoulRiserSource Article

Now if you post a URL in a comment, news post or in a rambling, it will automatically turn into a link :) Also, the wallpaper section is back, and a poetry section (people can submit now), and there's a store: http://cafepress.com/schoolsur... with t-shirts and all sorts of things.

The public has spoken! Power to the people! The masses smote the faceless monolithic corporate entity, which now cowers in shame!I'm speaking, of course, about the spectacular turnaround in the attitude of Sony BMG records. Last week, I wrote in this space about the nasty copy-protection software that the company installed on several dozen of […]