School Survival

The family of a boy suspended from a Gloucester school for refusing to cut his hair took legal action to force his re-instatement.Sam Grant, aged 16, was suspended from Sir Thomas Rich School after refusing to cut his hair short.The teenager, who has mixed-race parents, said he grew his hair to prevent racist remarks from […]

Teenagers should learn how to bath a baby and change a nappy, a teachers' union will suggest.Issues of discipline for toddlers and teenagers should also be covered, the national conference of the Professional Association of Teachers will hear.Lynn Edwards, outgoing national chair of the association, will call for compulsory parenting classes for 14 to 16-year-olds.She […]

Personal Voice: The death of a high school classmate brings up confounding questions for Christine about what her friend was fighting for.On June 29, Army Spc. Christopher D. Rose, 21, was out on a regular day on patrol in Baghdad when he stopped near the entrance of his base to remove some barbed wire. As […]

"This is my body that I'm supposed to take care of. I should have the right to tell someone what I want to do with this body. I studied. I did research. I came to this conclusion that the chemotherapy was not the route I wanted to take." ~ Abraham CherrixThe forced poisoning of Abraham […]

Ricky Duran was walking home one morning after his classes at the nearby community college in Salt Lake City, Utah. As he neared his house, he was approached by a police officer, who asked Ricky why he was not in school. Ricky explained that he was walking back from the college. However, having asked Ricky's […]

Student hands teacher knife to cut string with, ends up in jail.====High school senior Pavlos Karnezis was filing into his first-period physics class one morning last November when a friend approached with a pressing physics problem of his own: how to keep his pants up.Patricia Paquin, principal at Hightower High School in Missouri City, is […]

A citywide organization of parent association leaders sued the city's Department of Education today to overturn a ban on students carrying cellphones in public schools.The lawsuit, which the plaintiffs filed in Manhattan, argues that the ban jeopardizes the students' safety by making it hard for them to keep in touch with their parents before and […]

Abraham Cherrix, 16, went through chemotherapy for Hodgkin's disease that left him so weak that his father carried the 6-foot-1 youth from the car to the house. Doctors tell him he needs a second round of chemo to get rid of the cancer that reappeared in February.Abraham says no, and his parents are backing him […]

Note how the emphasis is on getting teens to delay sex, instead of giving them unbiased information and letting them decide what THEY really want.=====NEW YORK (Reuters) -- After participating in a two-week sexual education program designed and implemented by an academic medical center, more middle-school students said they would hold off on having sex […]

Education Secretary officially disregards learning as an important thing in schools, and says there should be lots more emphasis on results and tests.=======The pressure on England's teachers to get pupils through tests and improve school results should be intensified, said Education Secretary Alan Johnson.Mr Johnson told a committee of MPs league tables were "absolutely the […]