School Survival

On Thursday, March 15, the New Hampshire Senate voted 17 to 7 to pass Senate Bill 18. This bill would raise the age of compulsory attendance from 16 to 18, and create an "alternative learning plan," which would allow youth over the age of 16 to satisfy the compulsory attendance requirement without remaining in public […]

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - In its first major student free-speech rights case in almost 20 years, U.S. Supreme Court justices struggled on Monday with how far schools can go in censoring students.In a case involving a Juneau, Alaska, high school student suspended for unfurling a banner that read "Bong Hits 4 Jesus," several justices seemed wary […]

BALTIMORE - Police arrested a 7-year-old boy, handcuffed him and hauled him down to the station house on a charge of riding a motorized dirt bike on a sidewalk.Then, according to his mother, Gerard Mungo Jr. was handcuffed to a bench and interrogated before being released to his parents."They scared me," Gerard told The Baltimore […]

CROSS RIVER, New York (AP) -- The author of a well-known feminist play has agreed to speak at a school district where three girls were suspended after they used the word "vagina" while reciting the play.Eve Ensler, who wrote "The Vagina Monologues," has accepted an invitation to speak Tuesday at a school theater, just before […]

A 15-year-old boy has won a landmark High Court challenge to the legality of child curfew zones used to tackle anti-social behaviour.The teenager said the use of dispersal zones in Richmond, south-west London, breached his rights under the European Convention on Human Rights.Unaccompanied under-16s found in zones after 9pm can be held and escorted home, […]

PEQUANNOCK, N.J. - Teens who drink alcohol could be caught three days later under a high school's new testing policy for students.The test, which will be given randomly to students at Pequannock Township High School, can detect whether alcohol was consumed up to 80 hours earlier.Pequannock Superintendent Larrie Reynolds said the policy approved last week […]

Dutch children have been rated the most fortunate children in Europe. Their parents go out of their way to please them, and teachers expect less of them than some of their European counterparts.The Netherlands has come top of a league table for child well-being across 21 industrialised countries.The study by the UN children's organisation, Unicef, […]

It is hard to believe that within the civilized world in the 21st century we would still need to talk about actions used by the Nazi party in Germany to enforce civic conformity to the Nazi ideal. Unfortunately, this is exactly what is taking place in Germany today, and homeschoolers are the targets.On Feb. 1 […]

A 12-year-old girl Cave Creek girl could face criminal charges and other discipline after she was caught snapping a lewd photograph of herself and sending the image to at least 10 other students, police said Tuesday.A school resource officer documented the incident Friday at Sonoran Trails Middle School, according to Phoenix police and the Cave […]

WAUWATOSA, Wis. -- Young people can expect to get carded at a Wisconsin hot spot.Not to buy a drink, but to go to the mall.Mayfair Mall southwest of Milwaukee is a popular place with local teens. But if they want to hang out they'll have to show ID. Mall officials are concerned that rowdy teenagers […]