School Survival

KY 3 News' Sara Sheffield reports on an injured teen from Ozark, Missouri who was tasered up to 19 times by police.Passing motorists called Ozark police out of concern for the teen as he walked along the busy overpass. When the police arrived, the young man was lying on the shoulder of the highway directly […]

GREENVILLE COUNTY, S.C. -- An 18-year-old was punched in the face 13 times by a deputy police officer, whose dashboard video camera caught the incident on tape, WYFF Channel 4 News reported.The video shows undercover Deputy Brian Tollison pulling over a truck driven by a drug suspect and beating the teenage driver while what appears […]

A homeschooling family in Southern Germany spent six hours in a grueling German Family Court session this week with the hopes of regaining custody of their six homeschooled children, who have been held in state custody since January. After the long and confusing session, the Gorbers regained custody of their 3-year-old son. The judge, meanwhile, […]

Children are being denied adventurous play because their parents are nervous about exposing them to risk, a new survey suggests.The UK-wide poll, commissioned by Play England, found half of 7-12 year olds have been stopped from climbing trees.It also showed 21% of those surveyed had been banned from playing conkers, and 17% were not allowed […]

Weekends of tea parties and play dates aren't in the forecast for 5-year-old Yunona Bukasov. She's too busy scaling some of the world's highest mountains.Despite her young age, the Salt Lake City resident has already summited some of the world's highest peaks, including central California's Mount Whitney, the tallest peak in the continental United States […]

One million innocent Britons 'criminalised', says damning report.A generation of young Britons is being criminalised for life by the relentless expansion of the national DNA database, ministers are warned today.Alarm and hostility over the massive scale of the collection of DNA has been uncovered by groundbreaking research funded by the Home Office among panels of […]

What's the first thing that comes to mind when you hear the word "teenager"? For many, it is not positive.Teenage rebellion has become commonplace, and our culture has responded by expecting less and less of teenagers. But is teenage rebellion inevitable, or are there new ways of thinking that could address the problem? Responsibility for […]

For the first time in over 15 years, a United States jurisdiction has enacted laws that significantly increase restrictions on homeschooling freedom!This past Wednesday, the D.C. State Board of Education (SBOE) approved the State Superintendent of Education's June 27 draft of the home education regulations. After some discussion, the SBOE voted 5 to 1 in […]

Bill could give federal oversight to private clinics for children and would require FDA inspectionsIn a move that could have implications for D.C.'s troubled special education system, a panel of lawmakers Wednesday passed sweeping legislation that gives federal authorities the right to inspect private children's clinics and schools.The bill would require the federal Department of […]

BATON ROUGE, LA (WAFB) - Legislators are considering a proposal to restrict kids from wearing bulletproof vests at school. A young man wearing a vest and carrying a gun approached a middle school in East Baton Rouge earlier this year. Sheriff's officials say they could not legally do enough to punish him, so they want […]