School Survival

Petr was kind enough to send me an Italian translation for the intro page :) If you can help out translating into any other languages, please let me know. I also re-opened the ramblings section for anonymous posting. Hopefully it won't get spammed too much though.[link]

NSW Education Minister John Della Bosca says parents should not allow their school-aged children to participate in major APEC protests because they could find themselves in a potentially "dangerous situation".Mr Della Bosca says major protest groups such as Resistance, Mutiny and the Stop Bush Coalition were actively recruiting students to attend APEC protests early next […]

It may be something of a teenage nightmare: limits on when a wireless phone can make and receive calls and to whom, restrictions on text messages and talk time, and set allowances for ring tones and other downloads -- all at a parent's fingertips. AT&T Inc., the nation's largest wireless carrier, will launch a service […]

Police have been given the go-ahead to use Taser stun guns against children.The relaxing of restrictions on the use of the weapons comes despite warnings that they could trigger a heart attack in youngsters.Until now, Tasers - which emit a 50,000-volt electric shock - have been used only by specialist officers as a "non lethal" […]

Secretary of Homeland Security Michael Chertoff is on the brink of becoming the most powerful man in the country. This new bill gives him the authority to bypass Congress and the courts to waive any law

Mother Jones has a long, chilling feature on The Judge Rotenberg Education Center, a private radical behavior-modification school based in Canton, Mass. The school is run by a rogue behaviorist who uses discredited "punishment" techniques -- electroshock -- on children as young as nine to change their personalities.Matthew Israel, the school's $400,000/year executive director, straps […]

LAFAYETTE, Ind.---- A mother faces two felony neglect charges after prosecutors said she allowed her 5-year-old son to drive her and his younger brother in the woman's car.Holly L. Schnobrich, 24, of Lafayette was being held under $10,000 bond Thursday in the Tippecanoe County Jail.According to an affidavit filed Tuesday with the charges, Tippecanoe County […]

A Colorado Springs elementary school is banning the game of tag on its playground -- after some children complained that they'd been chased or harassed against their will.Assistant Principal Cindy Fesgen of the Discovery Canyon Campus school said running games will be allowed, as long as students don't chase each other.Fesgen said two parents complained […]

First and foremost....YEEEEEEEEEEEEEESSSSSSSS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!I swear they're all dieing off, Gonzales, Rumsfeld, Falwell.... soon... the entire republican party mwahahahaha!__________________________CRAWFORD, Texas - Attorney General Alberto Gonzales has resigned, ending a months-long standoff with Republican and Democratic critics who called for his ouster over the Justice Department's botched handling of FBI terror investigations and the firing of U.S. attorneys, […]

Examiners have raised concerns over the amount of "sickeningly violent" content in students' creative coursework for their English GCSEs.An examiners report from the Edexcel board said one of the most frequently used titles for creative writing coursework was "The Assassin".It comes amid national alarm over a spate of murders and attacks involving young people.The report […]