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US: Tennessee high school newspaper seized (No Comments)Posted in: News by NewsBot @ 12:00 AM
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
US: Teacher accused of giving 'liberal' quiz (No Comments)Posted in: News by NewsBot @ 12:00 AM
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
UK: Scheme to cut term-time holidays (No Comments)Posted in: News by NewsBot @ 12:00 AM
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
November 29, 2005:
What's the Buzz? Rowdy Teenagers Don't Want to Hear It (No Comments)Posted in: News by NewsBot @ 12:00 AM
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 [...]
November 25, 2005:
US: Principal resigns after shaming student (No Comments)Posted in: News by NewsBot @ 12:00 AM
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
US: Mother punishes daughter by public humiliation (No Comments)Posted in: News by NewsBot @ 12:00 AM
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 [...]
US: No Child Left Behind lawsuit thrown out (No Comments)Posted in: News by NewsBot @ 12:00 AM
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
US: Innocent Man Was Put To Death In Texas (No Comments)Posted in: News by NewsBot @ 12:00 AM
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
November 18, 2005:
New stuff (No Comments)Posted in: Site Updates by SoulRiser @ 12:00 AM
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.
November 17, 2005:
Sony BMG: Update (No Comments)Posted in: News by NewsBot @ 12:00 AM
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 [...]
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