MONROE, N.Y. (AP) - School officials apologized after an X-rated font was used on a third-grade spelling packet handed out to parents. The font showed male and female stick figures in provocative poses to form the letters of the alphabet.Officials with the Monroe-Woodbury School District in Orange County apologized last week after parents at Pine […]
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X-Rated Font Used on Third-Grade Handout
Woman allegedly forces kids to eat own vomit
Associated PressSept. 14, 2006 02:18 PMGRAFTON, W.Va. - A woman who forced her two stepchildren to gorge themselves on food and drink, then wallow in and eat their own vomit was sentenced Wednesday to two to six years in prison.Venus Critchfield, 35, also was accused of beating the children's feet with boards, and using ropes […]
US: Colleges grapple with student suicides
NEW YORK - A depressed Hunter College student who swallowed handfuls of Tylenol, then saved her own life by calling 911, was in for a surprise when she returned to her dorm room after the ordeal.The lock had been changed.She was being expelled from the dorm, the school informed her, because she violated her housing […]
Police Mistake 13 Year Old For a Car Thief
When he was yanked from his family's minivan and shoved to the ground by two large men, Brandon thought he was being mugged.Then he saw the gun."It freaked me out," the 13-year-old Surrey youth said yesterday. "I didn't know what to think."It wasn't until he felt handcuffs clamp his wrist that he realized the men […]
US: Saying the pledge becomes compulsory in North Carolina
A shortage of flags, questions about patriotism, and confusion among teachers have greeted a new state law requiring public school students to recite the Pledge of Allegiance in the classroom. Some teachers said they were unprepared for the requirement and not sure what directions to give students. For many, the biggest issue has been a […]
US: Starr Wants To Keep Students Suspended
President Clinton's impeachment nemesis Kenneth Starr is staying busy. Monday, the former Independent Counsel is expected to file a petition asking the U.S. Supreme Court to uphold the suspension of a high school student disciplined for holding a banner across the street from campus reading, "BONG HITS 4 JESUS."The incident occurred in January 2002, as […]
US: Social Worker Investigates Child Left Home Alone
The mother of a member family in Boerne, Texas, needed to drive her 14-year-old daughter to her summer job. Knowing the trip would take just a few minutes, the mother left her 10-year-old at home alone. By accident, the 10-year-old dialed 911, then hung up.Not long after, a police officer visited the family's home to […]
US schools ban birthday cakes
A growing number of schools around the US are banning birthday cakes, saying the tradition has become too unhealthy.Millions of students go back to school next week as their annual summer holiday comes to an end.But one thing will be missing from classrooms across the country.For generations American children have brought homemade cakes and cupcakes […]
US: Largely evangelical movement calls for public school pullout
NEW YORK (AP) -- Public schools take a lot of criticism, but a growing, loosely organized movement is now moving from harsh words to action -- with parents taking their own children out of public schools and exhorting other families to do the same.Led mainly by evangelical Christians, the movement depicts public education as hostile […]
America's youth must serve their country, one way or another
The United States military has a very big problem: Too many global conflicts and commitments - and too few soldiers.That's why it's time to reinstate the draft. A draft would do more than just harness the energy and idealism of the nation's youth to meet the military's unmet personnel needs. It would also tap more […]
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