School Survival

Time to ban teens from driving?Most teenagers cannot wait to get behind the wheel of a car and who can blame them? Driving is convenient, grown-up and, once you've got the hang of it, good fun too.The trouble is most young motorists, with obvious exceptions like Lewis Hamilton, are simply not very good at it.Car […]

Topic: Any youth rights issue you choose to write about.Deadline: August 15th, 2007Prize: $500 (if and only if your entry is selected for 1st place).Essays may be in the form of a well-researched paper, a well-reasoned persuasive argument, or an account of a personal experience. Choose one of the following topics to write about:At Home: […]

It was 'Game Over' for NY legislators attempting to pass a bill that would criminalize the sale of certain computer and video games to minors, as the current session ended Thursday night before the measure could make it through both houses. But sure enough, they have some extra quarters. With the two sides of the […]

The winners of this year's National Geographic Bee, Caitlin Snaring of Washington state, and the Scripps National Spelling Bee, Evan O'Dorney of California, were educated primarily by their parents in home-based instruction programs, a fact that was underreported by the media. Another underreported fact is that despite homeschoolers making up just 3 percent of the […]

A German banker who stole money from rich clients to help poor ones has been sentenced to two years and 10 months in prison, a court said Thursday.The 45-year-old, dubbed by German media as a modern day Robin Hood, diverted 2.1 million euros ($2.79 million) to clients he felt were needy while holding a senior […]

Sixth-grader Matt Porter didn't enjoy getting "Most Likely Not To Have Children" and "Sir Clowns-a-Lot" awards from two teachers at his school.His parents aren't pleased, either.Matt said he received the awards in front of classmates during a ceremony at the Decatur Intermediate Learning Center at the end of the recently finished school year. His mother […]

A 16-year-old Berlin student was so worried he would have to repeat a year at school because of poor marks he convinced two friends to storm his class and steal the report cards with his bad grades."The student probably honestly believed that he could avoid repeating the school year if he made the report cards […]

STAUNTON - The long, low white building with the purple shutters sits blank-faced and vacant on Village Green Road.The gravel parking lot is partially overgrown with weeds - a sign of years of limited use. A "for sale or lease" sign hangs on a side wall facing Va. 254.Soon, however, the old state office building […]

San Francisco - An American Medical Association committee recently took steps to classify video game addiction as a mental disorder.After nearly a year of studying the issue, an AMA committee concluded, in a 10-page report, that excessive video game playing leads to what it describes as "social dysfunction/disruption".As a result, the AMA panel "strongly encourages […]

LOS ANGELES, California (AP) -- A woman who lay bleeding on the emergency room floor of a troubled inner-city hospital died after 911 dispatchers refused to contact paramedics or an ambulance to take her to another facility, newly released tapes of the emergency calls reveal.Edith Isabel Rodriguez, 43, died of a perforated bowel on May […]