A Scottboro couple recently celebrated their 80th wedding anniversary, one of the longest marriages among living people when compared to reports in the 2007 Guinness Book of World Records.Alonzo, 97, and Beulah Sims, 94, celebrated their anniversary a day early Sunday at the nursing home where they have lived since May 2002.Without their families' approval, […]
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Couple who married in their teens Celebrate 80th Anniversary
Homeschool Success Proving Critics Wrong
When you hear stories of high academic achievement by homeschoolers, it's routine for opponents to try to minimize the results by asserting that not all homeschoolers are required to test over the same testing instruments.Their goal is to show that homeschooling isn't a viable educational alternative that can benefit a large number of children. If […]
German Prosecutor Wants Homeschooling Parents in Jail
A new situation representing the plight of homeschoolers in Germany is developing in the state of Hesse.The Dudeks, a homeschooling family of eight, were tried, convicted and fined 900 euros (about $1,200) in May for not sending their children to school. Hessian law allows for an exception to compulsory school attendance in "compelling cases." But, […]
Girl stripped for forgetting homework
A SEVEN-year-old girl was made to strip naked by her teacher in a New Delhi school for not completing her homework.She was made to strip completely naked and stand on a desk in her class on Friday while other students were asked to boo her."The teacher was arrested on a complaint by the parents but […]
Couple sentenced to life plus 30 years for beating death of their 8-year-old son
MARIETTA, Ga. (AP) - A suburban Atlanta couple was sentenced Tuesday to life plus 30 years in prison in the beating death of their 8-year-old son, a case that prompted authorities to raid the family's church because it supports corporal punishment.Prosecutors said Joseph and Sonya Smith beat their son Josef, locked him in a wooden […]
Boys have biological reason to be troublesome
Children with ADHD have less activity in parietal brain areas while performing attention-demanding problem-solving tasks. Credit: UQA team of researchers working with UQ's Queensland Brain Institute (QBI) has discovered more compelling evidence that attention-deficit disorder in young boys is substantially attributable to brain development.UQ neuroscientist, Dr Ross Cunnington said there appeared to be a biological […]
UK: Home-schooling on the rise
Channel 4 News Online reveals that the number of children being schooled at home has risen by more than 60 per cent in the past five years.More than 80 per cent of education authorities reported hikes in the number of children being educated at home, according to the Freedom of Information (FoI) probe.In one area […]
Boy survives two-hour flight to Moscow hanging onto plane wing
MOSCOW, September 24 (RIA Novosti) - A 15-year-old boy from the Urals suffered acute frostbite after riding the wing of a Boeing-737 plane on a two-hour flight from Perm to Moscow, Russian radio station Mayak reported on Monday.After clinging on for the entire 1300-kilometer (808-mile) flight to Vnukova Airport, the boy, named Andrei, collapsed onto […]
Smoke brings down grades
Teens exposed to second-hand smoke at home are at increased risk of test failure in school, suggests a new study in the Journal of Adolescent Health."Our retrospective study suggests that in adolescents, second-hand smoke exposure could interfere with academic test performance," said lead author Bradley Collins, assistant professor of public health and director of the […]
Documentary about school shootings
On September 13th, 2006, Kimveer Gill walked onto the bustling campus of Dawson College in Montreal and began to fire at random. Hours later, he was dead - but the story was just beginning. In the days to follow, the amateur computer game "Super Columbine Massacre RPG!" would be named by the mainstream media as […]
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