School Survival

A Colorado Springs elementary school is banning the game of tag on its playground -- after some children complained that they'd been chased or harassed against their will.Assistant Principal Cindy Fesgen of the Discovery Canyon Campus school said running games will be allowed, as long as students don't chase each other.Fesgen said two parents complained […]

First and foremost....YEEEEEEEEEEEEEESSSSSSSS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!I swear they're all dieing off, Gonzales, Rumsfeld, Falwell.... soon... the entire republican party mwahahahaha!__________________________CRAWFORD, Texas - Attorney General Alberto Gonzales has resigned, ending a months-long standoff with Republican and Democratic critics who called for his ouster over the Justice Department's botched handling of FBI terror investigations and the firing of U.S. attorneys, […]

Examiners have raised concerns over the amount of "sickeningly violent" content in students' creative coursework for their English GCSEs.An examiners report from the Edexcel board said one of the most frequently used titles for creative writing coursework was "The Assassin".It comes amid national alarm over a spate of murders and attacks involving young people.The report […]

Officials at an Arizona school suspended a 13-year-old boy for sketching what looked like a gun, saying the action posed a threat to his classmates.The boy's parents said the drawing was a harmless doodle and school officials overreacted."The school made him feel like he committed a crime. They are doing more damage than good," said […]

A school uniform maker said yesterday it was "seriously considering" adding tracking devices to its clothes after a survey found many parents would be interested in knowing where their offspring were.Trutex would not say whether it was studying a spy in the waistband or a bug in the blazer but admitted teenagers were less keen […]

The decision of a police force to recruit two 16-year-olds as community support officers to walk the beat met with astonishment across the wider policing community today.The appointments, by Thames Valley Police, have sparked fears that police forces and the Government are trying to get "police on the cheap".Despite the fact there is no official […]

Adolescents who claim they are "madly in love" might not be too far off the mark: a new study suggests that they show almost manic behaviours.Serge Brand of the Psychiatric University Clinics in Basel, Switzerland, and his colleagues surveyed 113 teenagers at around 17 years of age, asking them to complete questionnaires about their conduct […]

A six-year-old Pauingassi boy drowned as a result of bullying from his peers, RCMP confirmed Saturday. Six-year-old Adam Keeper died after he disappeared early Tuesday evening, and a community-organized search found his body hours later near the banks of Fishing Lake.Sgt. Steve Colwell said three boys -- ages seven, eight and nine -- stripped Keeper […]

Baghdad Eisteddfod show 'teacher's idea'A controversial Sydney high school production attacked by the federal government as a political protest against US President George W Bush represents the views of a teacher, a student says.The 2007 Rock Eisteddfod entry titled Bad Knight II, by Davidson High School in Sydney's north, includes students as young as 12. […]

CHICAGO, Aug. 9 Two middle school students are suing the Chicago Board of Education because their teacher denied them a bathroom break.Cousins Seneca Ammons and Keefe Ammons Jr. were suspended from school for using the bathroom without permission after their teacher denied the whole class a bathroom break as punishment, The Chicago Sun-Times reported Thursday.The […]