School Survival

An 11-year-old girl died after her parents prayed for healing rather than seek medical help for a treatable form of diabetes, police said Tuesday. Everest Metro Police Chief Dan Vergin said Madeline Neumann died Sunday. "She got sicker and sicker until she was dead," he said. Vergin said an autopsy determined the girl died from […]

A 16-year-old boy has been charged with murder after his father was stabbed to death at the family's north-west Sydney home, police say.The boy, whose mother was also injured in the early morning attack, has also been charged with attempted murder, police said.The badly wounded mother, aged 50, is thought to have phoned triple-0 for […]

Tragedies can bring unintended consequences. Regrettably, this is happening here in our nation's capital, and homeschoolers are in the line of fire.It all started when District resident Banita Jacks was accused of murdering her four children, who had been dead for months when their bodies were found in January.It was reported that she was a […]

A 15-year-old girl who stopped an out-of-control school bus she was riding on was handed a Saturday detention instead because she was skipping school.Marina High School student Amanda Rouse was on a bus with 40 elementary school students Wednesday morning when the driver fell out of her seat after a turn and hit her head.Rouse […]

"Parents must insist on continence outside marriage and fidelity in marriage as the only true and secure education for the prevention of AIDS. Parents, schools, and colleges must also reject the promotion of so-called "safe sex" or "safer sex", a dangerous and immoral policy based on the deluded theory that the condom can provide adequate […]

UP TO 1000 students from Sunbury College walked out on strike yesterday afternoon - protesting over a proposed merger with Sunbury Downs Secondary College that could take place as early as next year.The two secondary schools, which are a few kilometres apart, could become one, with Sunbury College to become the junior campus for year […]

I sit, smiling ear to ear, holding a book unlike any other. Isamu Fukui's Truancy has brought sadness, happiness and laughter to my entire being. His writing may soon be compared with names such as Tolkien, Rowling and Richard Adams when it comes to fantasy writing. Isamu's first novel is a swift kick in the […]

Last week, an intriguing proposition was mooted by Government minister Dawn Primarolo. Teenage girls, she said, could be steered towards what is described as "long-term contraception".This is now possible thanks to the development of contraceptive jabs and implants which can last up to five years.In other words, there is a way of effectively sterilising girls […]

Northern Illinois University Says 16 Others WoundedThe president of Northern Illinois University said five people died Thursday in a "rapid fire" shooting at a lecture hall that ended in the gunman's suicide.University President John Peters said four of the victims, including the gunman, were found dead at the scene of the shooting, which took place […]

High school calls all 2,550 students to detention By Linda Jump, Florida TodayPALM BAY - An accidental push of a button Friday had students at Palm Bay High questioning what they'd done wrong and parents plotting punishments.Parents of all 2,550 students in the school received an automated call Friday reminding them that their student had […]