School Survival

UTICA - Common Council members are discussing whether to establish a youth curfew for residents younger than 17 in an effort to curb street violence.It's an idea that's been talked about several times in recent years but has never come to fruition. With the city of Rochester beginning a 90-day pilot program next week, though, […]

I tightened all the comment checking stuff, so now if you're not logged in, you cannot post links at all, many spam words and even common word combinations relating to buying stuff will result in an error if you try to post. So basically, you can only post links if you're logged in. Not that […]

If a Springfield school board member gets her way, the law could get a lot tougher on teens who want to drop out of high school.Board member Debbie Tolliver supports creating legislation to raise the state's legal dropout age from 16 to 18. She hopes other school boards will endorse the idea."The purpose is so […]

MANSFIELD, Ark. (AP) - It's just a few day into the new school year and teachers are already being driven batty. By bats.Bats are roosting inside Mansfield Elementary School, and it appears the problem has gotten worse since classes resumed in August. In some cases, teachers have had to move students out of their classrooms.School […]

A small Canadian university has sparked controversy with its recruitment drive by using posters and a website mocking US President George W Bush.Lakehead University in northern Ontario set up www.yaleshmale.com in a bid to attract potential new students.It shows a picture of Yale graduate Mr Bush with the caption: "Graduating from an Ivy League university […]

A teenage pupil stabbed in the eye with scissors has told of a "gang mentality" based on music and fashion tastes.The 15-year-old girl narrowly escaped losing her sight in the attack at a Surrey school last November.Giving evidence by video at Guildford Crown Court, she told how she had been the victim of a string […]

The Orthodox Christian religion is being made a compulsory school subject in four of Russia's regions.Pupils in the Belgorod, Bryansk, Kaluga and Smolensk regions will be taught the basics of Orthodox Christianity.It will also be included as an optional subject in the school curriculum in 11 other regions across the country.Supporters say the move will […]

Ongoing teacher strike reaches fourth dayGARY, Indiana (AP) -- Officials on Thursday indefinitely canceled classes citywide after teachers, striking for a fourth day, blocked streets and swarmed a car attempting to park at an elementary school. Two picketers were slightly hurt as the car rolled through the crowd."This behavior compromises the district's goal to ensure […]

In the last six years I have seen a lot of brave efforts to concieve, convince, and contrive a broad youth movement across the US and around the world. There are actually several organizations that hold this effort as one of their undergirding principles. Old-line youth orgs like scouts, Boys & Girls Club, and YMCA […]

Some have appeared naked in a downtown parking lot. Others rode their bicycles or simply strolled the streets in the nude.Teenagers in the quaint Vermont town of Brattleboro are raising eyebrows this summer with brazen displays of nudity.So far they haven't been arrested or ticketed: public nudity isn't illegal in the town of 13,000 people, […]