School Survival

A 15-year-old boy has won a landmark High Court challenge to the legality of child curfew zones used to tackle anti-social behaviour.The teenager said the use of dispersal zones in Richmond, south-west London, breached his rights under the European Convention on Human Rights.Unaccompanied under-16s found in zones after 9pm can be held and escorted home, […]

CROSS RIVER, New York (AP) -- The author of a well-known feminist play has agreed to speak at a school district where three girls were suspended after they used the word "vagina" while reciting the play.Eve Ensler, who wrote "The Vagina Monologues," has accepted an invitation to speak Tuesday at a school theater, just before […]

A 12-year-old girl Cave Creek girl could face criminal charges and other discipline after she was caught snapping a lewd photograph of herself and sending the image to at least 10 other students, police said Tuesday.A school resource officer documented the incident Friday at Sonoran Trails Middle School, according to Phoenix police and the Cave […]

It is hard to believe that within the civilized world in the 21st century we would still need to talk about actions used by the Nazi party in Germany to enforce civic conformity to the Nazi ideal. Unfortunately, this is exactly what is taking place in Germany today, and homeschoolers are the targets.On Feb. 1 […]

IRANIAN university students involved in an angry protest against the President, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, have been expelled and earmarked for compulsory military service in an apparent act of official retribution.Authorities at Tehran's Amirkabir University, a traditional hotbed of student protest, have ended the studies of 54 students, ostensibly for repeatedly failing their exams.However, most of those […]

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) -- An Australian state has banned the online video Web site YouTube from government schools in a crackdown on cyber-bullying, a minister said Thursday.Victoria, Australia's second most populous state, banned the popular video-sharing site from its 1,600 government schools after a gang of male school students videotaped their assault on a 17-year-old […]

WAUWATOSA, Wis. -- Young people can expect to get carded at a Wisconsin hot spot.Not to buy a drink, but to go to the mall.Mayfair Mall southwest of Milwaukee is a popular place with local teens. But if they want to hang out they'll have to show ID. Mall officials are concerned that rowdy teenagers […]

TACOMA, Washington (AP) -- A woman admitted Monday that she coached her two children to fake retardation starting when they were 4 and 8 years old so she could collect Social Security benefits on their behalf.Rosie Costello, 46, admitted in U.S. District Court that she collected more than $280,000 in benefits, beginning in the mid-1980s. […]

WASHINGTON - Twelve-year-old Deamonte Driver died of a toothache Sunday.A routine, $80 tooth extraction might have saved him.If his mother had been insured.If his family had not lost its Medicaid.If Medicaid dentists weren't so hard to find.If his mother hadn't been focused on getting a dentist for his brother, who had six rotted teeth.By the […]

Milan - An Italian teacher has been suspended by her school in Milan after cutting off the tongue of a lively 7-year-old child with a pair of scissors, daily Corriere della Sera reported Tuesday. The boy has since had his tongue stitched back but is afraid to go back to school. His parents say he […]