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CCTV used to 'spy' on pupils in schools (8 Comments)Posted in: News by NewsBot @ 12:00 AM

The surveillance equipment is in use in around 85 primary and secondary schools and colleges across the country.Classwatch, the company behind the system, says it is being used as a way to monitor children who are disrupting lessons.The firm said the equipment, which is sold with evidence bags approved by the Crown Prosecution Service to [...]

December 24, 2008:

No Divorce Until You Reach Puberty (4 Comments)Posted in: News by NewsBot @ 12:00 AM

An eight-year old Saudi Arabian girl who was married off by her father to a 58-year-old man has been told she cannot divorce her husband until she reaches puberty.Lawyer Abdu Jtili said the divorce petition was filed by the unnamed girl's divorced mother in August after the marriage contract was signed by her father and [...]

December 20, 2008:

Police Are Allegedly Assaulted By A 12-Year-Old Girl (9 Comments)Posted in: News by NewsBot @ 12:00 AM

It was a little before 8 at night when the breaker went out at Emily Milburn's home in Galveston. She was busy preparing her children for school the next day, so she asked her 12-year-old daughter, Dymond, to pop outside and turn the switch back on. As Dymond headed toward the breaker, a blue van [...]

December 17, 2008:

Children forced into cell-like school seclusion rooms (9 Comments)Posted in: News by NewsBot @ 12:00 AM

A few weeks before 13-year-old Jonathan King killed himself, he told his parents that his teachers had put him in "time-out.""We thought that meant go sit in the corner and be quiet for a few minutes," Tina King said, tears washing her face as she remembered the child she called "our baby ... a good [...]

December 14, 2008:

Man throws shoes at Bush in Iraq (3 Comments)Posted in: News by NewsBot @ 12:00 AM

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December 11, 2008:

32 graves at centre of investigation into Florida reform school (4 Comments)Posted in: News by NewsBot @ 12:00 AM

AN investigation has been opened into 32 anonymous graves at a Florida reform school after claims that young orphans and tearaways were flogged and tortured to death by guards.Former residents of the Florida School for Boys in Marianna believe that the shallow graves, which date to the 1950s and 1960s, contain the crushed skulls and [...]

Teacher Throws Fit Over Student's Linux CD (3 Comments)Posted in: News by NewsBot @ 12:00 AM

In an age where Windows and OS X reign supreme, it's no wonder that a local AISD middle school teacher became enraged after discovering one of her students distributing what she believed to be bootlegged copies of an operating system in class.While teacher "Karen" was clearly operating under the assumption that she'd scored a minor [...]

School autopsy tours canceled (1 Comment)Posted in: News by NewsBot @ 12:00 AM

For the first time in nearly a decade, the Oakland County Medical Examiner's Office isn't offering public school tours this year after a bizarre coincidence this past spring in which a high school group from Waterford watched the autopsy of a 14-year-old girl from the same district.Oakland County officials said they decided to stop the [...]

December 9, 2008:

Pelahatchie Students Claim Girl Possessed By Devil (5 Comments)Posted in: News by NewsBot @ 12:00 AM

Students at a Pelahatchie high school said, for three days this week, a girl there spoke in tongues and made grave predictions for her classmates.Some of those predictions included when students would die.Pelahatchie High School students called the 16 WAPT newsroom convinced that an evil spirit had taken over Lashundra Clanton. "It was disturbing to [...]

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