School Survival

So are you one of the smug ones at the school gates or in the staffroom?As the new school year began in most parts of England, Wales and Northern Ireland this week, parents, students and school staff fell into one of two camps.There were those with webbed feet who had spent their holiday in the […]

WILLOUGHBY, Ohio (AP) - A distraught student carrying more than 30 rounds of ammunition shot a handgun twice in his high school's hallway Tuesday and threatened to kill himself before two administrators persuaded him to surrender, police said.No one was injured at Willoughby South High School, northeast of Cleveland, Willoughby police Lt. Randy Sevel said.Witnesses […]

HARROLD, Tex. - Students in this tiny town of grain silos and ranch-style houses spent much of the first couple of days in school this week trying to guess which of their teachers were carrying pistols under their clothes."We made fun of them," said Eric Howard, a 16-year-old high school junior. "Everybody knows everybody here. […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]