School Survival

For once, a shameful, anti-teen law has gone down in flames rather than living on to oppress teens for years to come. The infamous, yet laughable ban on low riding pants in Virgina has met a well deserved end: RICHMOND, Va. - Virginia lawmakers dropped their droopy-pants bill Thursday after the whole thing became just […]

A high school boy was suspended for ten days for talking on a cell phone to his mother in Iraq and then failing to obey teachers by ending the call. Teachers called his actions "defiant." Posted by: jamesSource Article

A call about a possible weapon at a middle school prompted police to put armed officers on rooftops, close nearby streets and lock down the school. All over a giant burrito.Someone called authorities Thursday after seeing a boy carrying something long and wrapped into Marshall Junior High.The drama ended two hours later when the suspicious […]

A 47 year old teacher is going to jail for half a year in jail because she decided to fight back against "yobs" by firing at them with an air pellet gun. (illegal to take out of your house within the UK)Posted by: EthanJPSource Article

Some or other mind-map type of "guide" for teachers to break up anything that goes against the school... could be interesting.Posted by: SoulRiserSource Article

Oliver Cromwell never existed, William Shakespeare was a Maine ferrier who lived from 1857 to 1892 and never left the county in which he was born. Churchill was a concatenation of manipulated photos of WC Fields-- news reels were montages of WC Fields out-takes, a French-Canadian voice actor & a Burbank janitor in chin-putty. Benjamin […]

In a profound sense, the public schools are not an American institution. They were modeled on the system of public education found in authoritarian Prussia in the early 19th century. After Prussia's defeat by Napoleon in 1807, King Frederick William III reinforced the national school system set up in 1717. Children aged seven to fourteen […]

According to Ann Hagel, a psychologist and research development adviser at the Nuffield Foundation: 'Sixteen-year-olds used to be important members of society: they had jobs, money and an identity. Now, if you aren't interested in another two to five years of conventional education, you're a write-off. They're school children with no power or they're nothing.' […]

If schoolchildren and students are forced to believe that their economic future is wholly reliant on educational performance, it encourages subordination and conformity. Education becomes a process for stunting creativity and fostering mindless obedience to authority - useful traits in a corporate workforce.Posted by: SoulRiserSource Article

The programmer, Clinton Curtis, said that he was told the program needed to be "touch-screen capable, the user should be able to trigger the program without any additional equipment, [and that] the programming was to remain hidden even if the source code was inspected."Posted by: SoulRiserSource Article