School Survival

School officials on Monday suspended a 14-year-old boy who said he had to urinate in a bottle after his science teacher refused to let him use the restroom. The teacher was being transferred to another school."I can't believe they don't believe me," student Michael Patterson said in a telephone interview after he was given the […]

Schools in England are "exam factories" due to ministers' obsession with league tables and targets, a National Union of Teachers conference has heard.And whenever schools fell short the government threw new policies at them, with head teachers counting 58 separate initiatives, academics said.This had made it more difficult to find head teachers, with 60 teachers […]

SALT LAKE CITY --Brent Tenney says he feels pretty safe when he goes to class at the University of Utah, but he takes no chances. He brings a loaded 9 mm semiautomatic with him every day."It's not that I run around scared all day long, but if something happens to me, I do want to […]

Teacher 'tricked into sex' by penis cream treatmentA Syrian-born airline pilot allegedly tricked a schoolteacher from Haverfordwest into having sex with him by pretending he had to administer ointment on the end of his penis, a jury heard yesterday (Tuesday).Fadi Sbano, 38, even pretended to know a gynaecologist who advised him on how often to […]

The Westboro Baptist Church has announced they will picket the funerals of the 32 victims of the shooting spree at Virginia Tech.The church are notorious for their anti-gay views, and often protest at the funerals of American military personnel killed in Iraq."The evidence is they were not Christian. God does not do that to his […]

While mystery surrounds the apparent suicide pact of Melbourne teenagers Stephanie Gestier and Jodie Gater, attempts to blame the 'emo' subculture - based on overtly emotional and angst-ridden rock and its punk-gothic fashion - appear baseless.Most of the music references on Jodie's page are to rap and R&B artists, including Beyonce and the Black Eyed […]

(AP) NEW DELHI Teachers in a village school in western India sprinkled cow urine on several low-caste students to purify them, a news report said Saturday.Sharad Kaitade, a new upper-caste headmaster at a school in Surewada village in Maharashtra state, allegedly ordered a few teachers to hold a special prayer ceremony and purify the school […]

Many of you have been following the story of Melissa Busekros, who was taken from her home by police on February 1, 2007, just because her family homeschooled her.On this past Monday, her 16th birthday, Melissa determined that she would decide for herself where she would live.In the early morning hours of Monday, April 23, […]

Professor gets fired for re-enacting the Virginia TEch shootings in a class discussion.A professor has been fired from his job at a Catholic college in Boston after leading his class in a discussion about the shootings at Virginia Tech two days afterward.Financial accounting professor Nicholas Winset pretended to shoot some students during the discussion at […]

Gun control has reached absurd limits in America. In Michigan, an 8-year-old boy is being prosecuted for pointing a toy gun at three other youngsters and threatening to shoot them. If this had happened in my day, every boy would have spent his youth in prison.We played guns when we weren't playing baseball or football. […]