A threatening message found scribbled on a boys' bathroom wall at Fairview High School on Tuesday led to nearly empty hallways and plenty of parking spots Wednesday as half the student body opted to take the school up on a free, get-out-of-classes day."October 18, 2006, is when 'it' happens. Watch how safe we actually are," […]
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US: High-schoolers skip classes after threat found in bathroom
Students in Texas School told to fight back
Youngsters in a suburban Fort Worth school district are being taught not to sit there like good boys and girls with their hands folded if a gunman invades the classroom, but to rush him and hit him with everything they got - books, pencils, legs and arms."Getting under desks and praying for rescue from professionals […]
US: Missouri Teen Fires Assault Rifle in School
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 […]
US: University instructor likens Bush to Hitler
"Hitler had a good 20 to 30 IQ points on Bush, so comparing Bush to Hitler would in many ways be an insult to Hitler."MILWAUKEE, Wisconsin (AP) -- A university instructor who came under scrutiny for arguing that the U.S. government orchestrated the September 11 attacks likens President Bush to Adolf Hitler in an essay […]
US: Albuquerque schools reopen, student admits lying
Three Albuquerque schools were locked down and SWAT teams searched the area around a middle school Thursday before an eighth-grader admitted she lied about seeing a man with a knife on campus, police said.The schools were reopened in late morning after authorities determined 13-year-old Julie McEwen's story was phony and there was no threat.The girl, […]
UK: Youth guilty of 8m school arson
A 17-year-old youth has been found guilty of an arson attack that caused
UK: 'Make cookery compulsory' demand
Health organisations, teachers' unions and children's charities are demanding compulsory cookery lessons in schools.More than 50 bodies, including the British Heart Foundation, say it is a scandal that so many pupils leave school unable to cook.They said voluntary lessons in cookery would not reach those pupils most likely to have poor eating habits.The Department for […]
'Bully' game targeted in the US
The developers of controversial videogame Bully have defended the title in the wake of a threatened injunction in Florida, in the US.Lawyer Jack Thompson is attempting to stop the game going on sale, arguing it would cause a public nuisance.The judge in the case has agreed to take a look at the title and play […]
US: Worst. Congress. Ever.
Your representatives in Washington have worked less than any Congress in almost 60 years. But what's even worse is that on those rare times they do work, they work to pass laws that screw us all over. "For those who really believe in limited government, then there's virtue in being away from Washington, it's not […]
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 […]
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