Officials at an Arizona school suspended a 13-year-old boy for sketching what looked like a gun, saying the action posed a threat to his classmates.The boy's parents said the drawing was a harmless doodle and school officials overreacted."The school made him feel like he committed a crime. They are doing more damage than good," said […]
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US: Student suspended for drawing a picture of a gun
UK: Tracking bugs in school uniforms
A school uniform maker said yesterday it was "seriously considering" adding tracking devices to its clothes after a survey found many parents would be interested in knowing where their offspring were.Trutex would not say whether it was studying a spy in the waistband or a bug in the blazer but admitted teenagers were less keen […]
UK: Police recruit 16-year-old support officers
The decision of a police force to recruit two 16-year-olds as community support officers to walk the beat met with astonishment across the wider policing community today.The appointments, by Thames Valley Police, have sparked fears that police forces and the Government are trying to get "police on the cheap".Despite the fact there is no official […]
Bullies push boy, 6, into lake; he drowns
A six-year-old Pauingassi boy drowned as a result of bullying from his peers, RCMP confirmed Saturday. Six-year-old Adam Keeper died after he disappeared early Tuesday evening, and a community-organized search found his body hours later near the banks of Fishing Lake.Sgt. Steve Colwell said three boys -- ages seven, eight and nine -- stripped Keeper […]
Puppy love makes teenagers lose the plot
Adolescents who claim they are "madly in love" might not be too far off the mark: a new study suggests that they show almost manic behaviours.Serge Brand of the Psychiatric University Clinics in Basel, Switzerland, and his colleagues surveyed 113 teenagers at around 17 years of age, asking them to complete questionnaires about their conduct […]
Boot Camp info
Added a page with info on how to avoid being sent to a boot camp, and some more links in the Behavior Modification section. Also added some more instructions to the IRC page, on how to register your nick and log in.[link]
Baghdad Eisteddfod show 'teacher's idea'
Baghdad Eisteddfod show 'teacher's idea'A controversial Sydney high school production attacked by the federal government as a political protest against US President George W Bush represents the views of a teacher, a student says.The 2007 Rock Eisteddfod entry titled Bad Knight II, by Davidson High School in Sydney's north, includes students as young as 12. […]
Spanish intro
There's now a Spanish version of School Survival's intro page! Thanks to Kelsey for translating it :) If you can help out translating into any other languages, please let me know. In other news, I added a few more funny things to the Comic Relief section - one joke and a bunch of pics of […]
7-Year Old Battles Gunman
REIDSVILLE, N.C. -- An armed robber was no match for a 7-year-old girl in Reidsville, North Carolina.The gunman tried to hold-up the convenience store where little Alisha's mom was working. (She didn't want to reveal her last name.)Alisha rushed to her mom's defense when the robber pushed her. Alisha shoved him right back."I was pushing […]
9-year-old saves dad by taking wheel of speeding big rig
What do you do if your dad loses consciousness in a speeding big rig and you're only nine-years-old?If you're Matthew Lovo Jr., you grab the wheel.Quickly.And radio for help.The boy had been riding with his father in a semi truck pulling two trailers loaded with lumber northbound through St. Helens Tuesday afternoon when Matthew Lovo […]
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