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UK: Secondary school destroyed in sudden blaze (2 Comments)Posted in: News by NewsBot @ 12:00 AM
A 1000-pupil secondary school has been all but destroyed after fire ripped through its building in the early hours of this morning.Fourteen separate fire tenders fought the raging blaze at Penyrheol Comprehensive School, near Swansea, south Wales, at its height.Water from a leisure centre swimming pool on the school campus was used to douse the [...]
US: Boot Camp Teen Likely Suffocated (1 Comment)Posted in: News by NewsBot @ 12:00 AM
A teen who died after guards punched and kicked him at a boot camp likely was suffocated during the confrontation and was brain dead when he was brought to a hospital, a pathologist told lawmakers Friday.Dr. Michael Baden observed the second autopsy performed on 14-year-old Martin Lee Anderson on Monday in Tampa. He was there [...]
UK: Mother's truancy conviction wrong (1 Comment)Posted in: News by NewsBot @ 12:00 AM
A mother found guilty of failing to ensure her son attended school despite trying to physically drag him there has had her conviction quashed.The woman was convicted last year by Liverpool magistrates using the Education Act 1996.A High Court judge ruled it should have been down to the prosecution to prove she had failed to [...]
UK: Whole family banned from going out at night (1 Comment)Posted in: News by NewsBot @ 12:00 AM
A couple have been banned from going on nights out for three months to ensure they send their teenage son to school.Neath magistrates heard the parents, who cannot be named, were going to the pub and bingo and having lie-ins rather than sending the boy, 16, to school.The court ordered that the pair must be [...]
March 16, 2006:
Gaming cures attention deficit syndrome (1 Comment)Posted in: News by NewsBot @ 12:00 AM
BOFFINS have discovered that computer games could be the way to treat kids with attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder.Clinical psychologist Henry Owens, has developed a video game system which adjusts its operation so that if kids don't concentrate, the game will stop.He said this forces kids to develop concentration skills and train their own brains rather than [...]
New name for rebel kids: Indigo Children (7 Comments)Posted in: News by NewsBot @ 12:00 AM
Some kids who are intelligent, defy authority and generally think outside the box are being called Indigo Children now... but they get special treatment, because they've been put on earth to save humanity, or so the story goes...---Donna Cork knows her 9-year-old son, Logan, is different from other kids.He's highly creative, resistant to authority, abhors [...]
March 13, 2006:
US: SAT Errors Raise New Qualms About Testing (No Comments)Posted in: News by NewsBot @ 12:00 AM
The scoring errors disclosed this week on thousands of the College Board's SAT tests were made by a company that is one of the largest players in the exploding standardized testing business, handling millions of tests each year.The mistakes, which the company, Pearson Educational Measurement, acknowledged yesterday, raised fresh questions about the reliability of the [...]
US: Denver teacher reinstated (No Comments)Posted in: News by NewsBot @ 12:00 AM
DENVER - A high school teacher who triggered an uproar by telling students that some of President Bush's remarks sounded like Adolf Hitler will be back in the classroom Monday, vowing to be a better teacher while still promoting "social justice."Social studies teacher Jay Bennish was reinstated Friday after more than a week on paid [...]
March 12, 2006:
UK: 14-yo stripped and washed by staff (No Comments)Posted in: News by NewsBot @ 12:00 AM
A mother faces legal action for removing her disabled son from a special school after staff stripped and showered him without her knowledge.The 14-year-old who has cerebral palsy was washed by two assistants after staff said he smelled of urine.An investigation by governors concluded staff acted correctly, despite a written apology from the head of [...]
US: Human Rights school has unusual mission (No Comments)Posted in: News by NewsBot @ 12:00 AM
NEW YORK (AP) -- When 10th-graders at the School for Human Rights debated in a recent class whether Crips co-founder Stanley Tookie Williams should be executed, they knew the question was moot.Williams, a convicted killer who later became an outspoken critic of gang violence, died by injection in December. But for the students at this [...]
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