Up to 5.9million children face having their fingerprints taken by schools in another move towards a 'Big Brother' society.Pupils will have to hand over their biometric details simply to borrow library books or gain access to school dinners. A million children's fingerprints are believed to have been taken already, some without parental approval and even […]
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UK: Schoolchildren to be fingerprinted in Big Brother-style shake-up
New section - FAQ/Q&A/Answers
Added a section with a compilation of the more common questions that have been asked on the forums, along with the responses to those questions. The list will grow as more questions get asked (on the forums mostly). Also, a few days ago I updated the School Survival Guide to version 1.3 (added more stuff, […]
Bush would veto stem cell research bill
President Bush will again veto a bill to subsidize stem cell research using human embryos, but would sign an alternative that permits public funding for studies on embryos incapable of developing into fetuses, the White House said Tuesday.ADVERTISEMENTBoth bills are moving toward a Senate vote this week with a debate over a budding science that […]
Review: Compound Security Mosquito Teenage Deterrent System
Monday, April 09, 2007Review: Compound Security Mosquito Teenage Deterrent SystemThis teenage repellent guarantees it will "shoo away" young people with baggy pants and bad posture by emitting a high-pitched alarm supposedly only audible to those under the age of 25. Shaped and sized like a floodlight, we visited a local middle school and set it […]
Pranksters glue all of a school's doors shut
Forget being glued to their seats: Kids at a suburban San Diego high school couldn't even get through their classroom doors Friday.With only a day to go before spring break, vandals plugged locks on all the exterior gates and doors on campus with super-strength adhesive."A teacher who always gets there early called me on my […]
A geyser erupts in a New zealand school, no shit!
The phenomenon burst open at Rotorua Primary School, on the North Island, yesterday, according to wire reports.The Fire Service said it was lucky the geyser didn't blow on a school day.Principal John Naera was quoted as satying the explosion was in an area which was fenced off because it was most likely to be prone […]
US: Texas Teen's Imprisonment Sparks Protests
Civil rights activists are rallying around a 15-year-old black girl who has been in a high-security juvenile detention center for a year for shoving a hall monitor at her school and whose sentence was just extended for what authorities call possession of contraband: an extra pair of socks and a plastic foam cup.One of 4,562 […]
George Orwell, Big Brother is watching your house
The Big Brother nightmare of George Orwell's 1984 has become a reality - in the shadow of the author's former London home.It may have taken a little longer than he predicted, but Orwell's vision of a society where cameras and computers spy on every person's movements is now here.According to the latest studies, Britain has […]
New article & news
Some news: AOL is going to buy out School Survival for $100 000. They'll still keep me as the site admin though, so I'll still be around... In other news, I added a new article. Click the title to read it. By the way, it's the 1st of April. I was kidding about the AOL […]
First-grader suspended for showing Paris Hilton cartoon
A first-grader became increasingly aware he was in trouble for showing classmates an online game featuring a cartoon of a near-naked Paris Hilton when a girl told the teacher, the teacher sent him to the principal, and the principal called his mother."I thought I would get grounded, like I am now," said Dylan Poitrinal, 7. […]
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