The Education Department has given Sydney Schools the all-clear to fingerprint their students.The controversial move is voluntary, but only three parents have declined to allow their children to take part in a trial of the system at Rooty Hill High in Sydney's west.School principal Christine Cawsey has told the Nine Network the system will be […]
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Stripper visits school in booking mix-up
A STRIPPER performed for a classroom full of British teenagers, spanked a birthday boy and asked him to rub cream all over her after a booking error by the teen's mother.It is believed the mother thought she had booked a gorillagram to rush into her 16-year-old son's classroom for a birthday surprise - but a […]
FBI says, "No hard evidence connecting Bin Laden to 9/11"
This may not be a new article, but it must be shown.-----------------FBI says, "No hard evidence connecting Bin Laden to 9/11" June 6, 2006
Scientists Find that Low Self-Esteem and Materialism Goes Hand in Hand
"Advertising has us chasing cars and clothes, working jobs we hate so we can buy shit we don't need." ~From the movie Fight Club. Mad Magazine summed it up with the statement, "The only reason a great many American families don't own an elephant is that they have never been offered an elephant for a […]
German Officials Want to Sell Family's Possessions to Pay Homeschooling Fine
Dagmar and Tillman Neubronner were home at their small publishing house in the City-State of Bremen, Germany, when a knock came at the door. Outside were two German marshals who wanted to enter and see if there were any possessions they could seize and sell to pay the $6,300 fine levied against the family because […]
Detention for "smiling disruptively"
My boyfriend goes to a different school to me and at first he really enjoyed it until his art teacher seemed to develop a particular passion for getting him into trouble. He is not a noisy or disruptive student at all he is very clever and quiet but his art teacher blames him for throwing […]
Urgent Email needed for Romanian Homeschoolers
I got this from the Home School Legal Defense Association mailing list:Homeschooling is not legal in Romania, even though the homeschool movement is steadily growing. Home School Legal Defense Association has been working with Gabriel Curcubet, president of the Romanian Home Schooling Association, in order to convince the Romanian government to specifically recognize and legalize […]
Girl, 13, gets detention for hugging two friends
Two hugs equals two days of detention for 13-year-old Megan Coulter.The eighth-grader was punished for violating a school policy banning public displays of affection when she hugged two friends Friday."I feel it is crazy," said Megan, who was to serve her second detention Tuesday after classes at Mascoutah Middle School.District Superintendent Sam McGowen said that […]
Remember, remember, the 5th of November
School Survival was down for a long time over the weekend, I was moving it to a new server and there were a few unexpected... let's call them "complications". But it's all over now, and everything should be back to normal. If you see anything wrong anywhere, please let me know about it. Anyway, the […]
Backlash over new Islamic school
More than 2000 people have protested against the building of a private Islamic school in Sydney's south-west as the backlash against the project - including a text message campaign - builds.The proposed Islamic school for Camden has outraged thousands of residents, some of whom say it would bring violence to the suburb and turn it […]
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