A Mount Vernon elementary school principal used a padded hockey stick to deliver birthday spankings to his students, according to complaints that Linn County authorities are investigating. Complaints about Principal Terry Eisenbarth's birthday "whammies" at Washington Elementary School are also under review by school board members, who met behind closed doors Wednesday night. About 70 […]
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Iowa Principal Spanks Students on Their Birthdays
Zuckerberg: Facebook Should Allow Kids Under 13
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg this week said that younger children should be allowed on the site—for education purposes.
"In the future, software and technology will enable people to learn a lot from their fellow students," Zuckerberg said at the NewSchools Summit in California, according to...
Man Charged With Underage Drinking Hours Before Turning 21
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(http://www.wlwt.com/r/27989869/detail.html)SPRINGBORO, Ohio -- *A man arrested for underage drinking should have waited a few more hours.
Springboro police arrested Jesse Robinson at about 6:30 p.m. Saturday, less than six hours before he turned 21, the legal drinking age.
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School Kids in Handcuffs Reveal Teacher Bondage
Another week, another tot gets his rights violated. A few days before Easter police in Maspeth, New York, handcuffed a first grader who had a temper tantrum after coloring an egg at school.
“I want those cops to say sorry to me and the principal for calling the ambulance on me and handcuffing...
Family Claims High School Principal Went Ballistic
FRESNO, Calif. (CN) - A student says high school officials had police arrest and interrogate him, then suspended him for 15 days for logging onto a Facebook page that parodied the school's principal. He says he didn't create the parody, and never logged onto the Facebook page with school computers,...
19-year-old sets record as youngest MP
MONTREAL - Nineteen-year-old Pierre-Luc Dusseault planned to work a summer job at a golf course if his foray into federal politics didn't work out.
He can forget the links.
The teenage longshot is now headed to Ottawa as the youngest member to ever sit in Canada's federal Parliament, joining...
NH school discipline bill OKs 'reasonable' force
CONCORD, N.H—Retired Nashua teacher Robert Sherman told lawmakers Thursday of a time when he was asked to deal with a student who'd run into the men's room to hide from a female teacher who'd caught him smoking.
"I gave the student clear orders not to move until an administrator came -- and he...
NC Senate approves giving parents choice to rule out spanking for misbehaving kids
RALEIGH, N.C. — The state Senate moved Tuesday to limit corporal punishment in public schools, approving legislation that would allow parents to save their misbehaving students from a paddling by telling school administrators to keep their hands off.
The 50-0 vote sends the measure to the House....
Aussie student finds universe's 'missing mass'
SYDNEY (AFP) – A 22-year-old Australian university student has solved a problem which has puzzled astrophysicists for decades, discovering part of the so-called "missing mass" of the universe during her summer break.
Undergraduate Amelia Fraser-McKelvie made the breakthrough during a holiday...
Formidable Coalition Joins Fight for Student Rights
In September, I wrote about a legal victory in the remarkable case of Hayden Barnes, a former student at Georgia's Valdosta State University (VSU) who was kicked out of his college for protesting a planned parking garage complex. As justification for expelling him, the university cited only a...
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