School Survival

Hundreds of students at Seagoville High School were banned from classes Tuesday for dress code violations. Belt violations, to be exact. The dress code calls for students to wear a plain black or brown belt with a plain buckle. Anything that can be considered decoration is a strict violation of dress code. You have to […]

WACO, Texas -- A 13-year-old boy who admitted stabbing a teenage friend to death earlier this summer has received a 15-year sentence as part of a plea agreement.State District Judge Alan Mayfield accepted the plea agreement Monday after rejecting a 10-year proposal earlier this month. The boy was 12 at the time of the June […]

The students who put together the 2007 yearbook at Thomas S. Wootton High School in Rockville dubbed Theresa C. Duarte "the coolest woman alive."But Montgomery County police say the former English teacher and yearbook adviser's relationship with two students turned criminal in June, when she gave them cocaine -- one of them on two occasions […]

OMAHA, Neb. - Nebraska's new "safe-haven" law allowing parents to abandon unwanted children at hospitals with no questions asked is unique in a significant way: It goes beyond babies and potentially permits the abandonment of anyone under 19.While lawmakers may not have intended it, the month-old law raises the possibility that frustrated parents could drop […]

GONZALES, Texas. -- A school in Texas will force students who don't follow the rules to wear prison-like jumpsuits in a controversial move this coming school year.Gonzales High School has new navy blue jumpsuits that students will wear if they break the dress code.Violators will be forced to wear the jumpsuit for the day, the […]

SAN ANTONIO, Texas - Court authorities here will be able to track students with a history of skipping school under a new program requiring them to wear ankle bracelets with Global Positioning System monitoring.But at least one group is worried the ankle bracelets will infringe on students' privacy.Linda Penn, a Bexar County justice of the […]

When a high school senior told her principal that students were taunting her for being a lesbian, he told her homosexuality is wrong, outed her to her parents and ordered her to stay away from children.He suspended some of her friends who expressed their outrage by wearing gay pride T-shirts and buttons at Ponce de […]

A GED is basically the equivalent to a high school diploma, but for some reason, 3-5% of colleges and employers still don't accept it as good enough for them. Why is this? Let's take a look at the differences, and possible reasons why some people have a GED instead of a normal diploma. Reasons to […]

Since people force you to attend school against your will, you'd think the least they could do was try to make it interesting while you're stuck there, right? But no, they insist on blocking websites so that you can't access them at school. They try to block everything they can find that might possibly be […]

Johannesburg - In an apparent Satanic ritual, a Krugersdorp matriculant "with mad eyes" arrived at school on Monday with several Ninja swords and allegedly killed one boy before seriously injuring three more people.The victim was a 16-year-old boy at the Nic Diederichs Technical High School. Another pupil sustained serious head wounds while two gardeners were […]