School Survival

Channel 4 News Online reveals that the number of children being schooled at home has risen by more than 60 per cent in the past five years.More than 80 per cent of education authorities reported hikes in the number of children being educated at home, according to the Freedom of Information (FoI) probe.In one area […]

MOSCOW, September 24 (RIA Novosti) - A 15-year-old boy from the Urals suffered acute frostbite after riding the wing of a Boeing-737 plane on a two-hour flight from Perm to Moscow, Russian radio station Mayak reported on Monday.After clinging on for the entire 1300-kilometer (808-mile) flight to Vnukova Airport, the boy, named Andrei, collapsed onto […]

Teens exposed to second-hand smoke at home are at increased risk of test failure in school, suggests a new study in the Journal of Adolescent Health."Our retrospective study suggests that in adolescents, second-hand smoke exposure could interfere with academic test performance," said lead author Bradley Collins, assistant professor of public health and director of the […]

On September 13th, 2006, Kimveer Gill walked onto the bustling campus of Dawson College in Montreal and began to fire at random. Hours later, he was dead - but the story was just beginning. In the days to follow, the amateur computer game "Super Columbine Massacre RPG!" would be named by the mainstream media as […]

NSW Education Minister John Della Bosca says parents should not allow their school-aged children to participate in major APEC protests because they could find themselves in a potentially "dangerous situation".Mr Della Bosca says major protest groups such as Resistance, Mutiny and the Stop Bush Coalition were actively recruiting students to attend APEC protests early next […]

It may be something of a teenage nightmare: limits on when a wireless phone can make and receive calls and to whom, restrictions on text messages and talk time, and set allowances for ring tones and other downloads -- all at a parent's fingertips. AT&T Inc., the nation's largest wireless carrier, will launch a service […]

Police have been given the go-ahead to use Taser stun guns against children.The relaxing of restrictions on the use of the weapons comes despite warnings that they could trigger a heart attack in youngsters.Until now, Tasers - which emit a 50,000-volt electric shock - have been used only by specialist officers as a "non lethal" […]

Secretary of Homeland Security Michael Chertoff is on the brink of becoming the most powerful man in the country. This new bill gives him the authority to bypass Congress and the courts to waive any law

Mother Jones has a long, chilling feature on The Judge Rotenberg Education Center, a private radical behavior-modification school based in Canton, Mass. The school is run by a rogue behaviorist who uses discredited "punishment" techniques -- electroshock -- on children as young as nine to change their personalities.Matthew Israel, the school's $400,000/year executive director, straps […]

LAFAYETTE, Ind.---- A mother faces two felony neglect charges after prosecutors said she allowed her 5-year-old son to drive her and his younger brother in the woman's car.Holly L. Schnobrich, 24, of Lafayette was being held under $10,000 bond Thursday in the Tippecanoe County Jail.According to an affidavit filed Tuesday with the charges, Tippecanoe County […]