School Survival

"Advertising has us chasing cars and clothes, working jobs we hate so we can buy shit we don't need." ~From the movie Fight Club. Mad Magazine summed it up with the statement, "The only reason a great many American families don't own an elephant is that they have never been offered an elephant for a […]

My boyfriend goes to a different school to me and at first he really enjoyed it until his art teacher seemed to develop a particular passion for getting him into trouble. He is not a noisy or disruptive student at all he is very clever and quiet but his art teacher blames him for throwing […]

I got this from the Home School Legal Defense Association mailing list:Homeschooling is not legal in Romania, even though the homeschool movement is steadily growing. Home School Legal Defense Association has been working with Gabriel Curcubet, president of the Romanian Home Schooling Association, in order to convince the Romanian government to specifically recognize and legalize […]

Two hugs equals two days of detention for 13-year-old Megan Coulter.The eighth-grader was punished for violating a school policy banning public displays of affection when she hugged two friends Friday."I feel it is crazy," said Megan, who was to serve her second detention Tuesday after classes at Mascoutah Middle School.District Superintendent Sam McGowen said that […]

More than 2000 people have protested against the building of a private Islamic school in Sydney's south-west as the backlash against the project - including a text message campaign - builds.The proposed Islamic school for Camden has outraged thousands of residents, some of whom say it would bring violence to the suburb and turn it […]

FEMA held a press conference on Oct. 23 to respond to fake questions about the real wildfires in California. Here's how it happened: Real reporters were only notified 15 minutes in advance, so all they could reasonably do was call in to a conference line. But the line was set to "listen-only" mode, so asking […]

A couple from Montana were out riding on the range, he with his rifle and she (fortunately) with her camera. Their dogs always followed them, but on this occasion a Mountain Lion decided that he wanted to stalk the dogs (you'll see the dogs in the background watching). Very, very bad decision...The hunter got off […]

Let's hear it for the girl! Natalie Shea, the 6-year-old who became an international media celebrity after the city sent her a warning letter about the chalk "graffiti" on her front stoop, defiantly scribbled more drawings this week after Saturday's rainstorm washed away the evidence of her original "crime.""We just think the whole thing is […]

A kamikaze squirrel fell from the sky and detonated a Bayonne woman's car yesterday, police said today.Lindsey Millar, 23, and her brother, Tony, 22, were both home Wednesday at about 12:45 p.m. when Lindsey's car suddenly started burning outside their 42nd Street home.Tony Millar said firefighters told them it was the work of a buck-toothed […]

NORRISTOWN, Pa. - The mother of a 14-year-old who authorities say had a cache of guns, knives and explosive devices in his bedroom for a possible school attack was charged Friday with buying her son three weapons. Michele Cossey bought her home-schooled son, Dillon, a .22-caliber handgun, a .22-caliber rifle and a 9 mm semiautomatic […]