A 13-year-old boy in a dark-green trench coat and mask carried an assault rifle into his school Monday, pointed it at students and fired a shot into a ceiling before the weapon jammed, authorities said. No one was hurt."Please don't make me do this," the boy said, according to school administrators, before police arrested him […]
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US: Missouri Teen Fires Assault Rifle in School
US: School gives detention to parents who get their kids to school late
NEW YORK (AP) -- A public school is requiring detention for parents who get their kids to school late.Under the new rule at the Manhattan School for Children, parents who don't drop off their children by 8:25 a.m. have to pick up late slips from the principal's office and go to the auditorium to serve […]
UK: Children 'deserve a childhood'
Children are entitled to a childhood and parents need help to realise this right, the Conservatives have said.Shadow education secretary David Willetts told the party's conference that "more and more, we treat children as though they are adults".He also told delegates in Bournemouth that teachers accused of inappropriate behaviour deserved anonymity unless they were charged […]
US: School Board Blocks High School Drama Club Production
Yakima's A.C. Davis High's production of The Laramie Project has been canceled, because the play "could be perceived as promoting homosexuality.""We'd brought it up in the meetings...there might be issues we never really expected it was going to be the school district," said drama club president and Davis senior Kristie Prescott. Prescott and several drama […]
US: Mock documentary could get superintendent fired
CHICAGO, Illinois (AP) -- A suburban school superintendent says he was only trying to be funny when he took videotaped interviews with his new teachers, spliced in his own gag questions and made the faculty members look like killers, strippers and drug users.Now he could lose his job."How do you like to unwind?" Bremen High […]
US: Ohio vandals give 6,700 students a day off
NEWARK, Ohio (AP) -- The city's school district took the unusual step of canceling Monday's classes for all 6,700 students because vandals trashed the city's school bus fleet twice during the weekend.The shutdown was intended to give police time to investigate all 50 buses for damage and evidence that could lead to the perpetrators, district […]
US: Study backs parents who say "No TV on a school-night"
Parents now have science to back them up when they say, "Turn off the TV. It's a school night."Middle school students who watch TV or play video games during the week do worse in school, a new study finds, but weekend viewing and gaming doesn't affect school performance much."On weekdays, the more they watched, the […]
US: Congress trying to make homeschooling illegal
As another reminder of attempts to take educational choices out of the hands of parents, legislation has been introduced in Congress proposing to amend the U.S. Constitution to make public education a "right."House Joint Resolution 29, introduced by U.S. Rep. Jesse L. Jackson, Jr., (D-Illinois) in 2005, is eerily similar to language in the United […]
US: Homework or busywork?
The best times in Karen Brown's house are when her children don't have homework."They're happier. They're more rested," said the Louisville parent of a middle schooler and a high schooler. "They have that fun, creative time."Though not a fan of homework, she said she understands why schools pressured to perform are assigning it. She doesn't […]
5-year old American girl dies after visiting the dentist
Diamond Brownridge, a 5-year old girl from Chicago, Illinois, has died after a visit to the dentist. Children's Memorial Hospital officials say that the girl was rushed to the hospital when she never woke up after being sedated for a dental procedure. She had been in a coma, on life support, since being admitted to […]
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