Personal Voice: The death of a high school classmate brings up confounding questions for Christine about what her friend was fighting for.On June 29, Army Spc. Christopher D. Rose, 21, was out on a regular day on patrol in Baghdad when he stopped near the entrance of his base to remove some barbed wire. As […]
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US: Now That My Friend is Dead
US: More about the teen who may be forced to undergo chemotherapy against his will
"This is my body that I'm supposed to take care of. I should have the right to tell someone what I want to do with this body. I studied. I did research. I came to this conclusion that the chemotherapy was not the route I wanted to take." ~ Abraham CherrixThe forced poisoning of Abraham […]
US: Daytime Curfews: Guilty Until Proven Innocent
Ricky Duran was walking home one morning after his classes at the nearby community college in Salt Lake City, Utah. As he neared his house, he was approached by a police officer, who asked Ricky why he was not in school. Ricky explained that he was walking back from the college. However, having asked Ricky's […]
US: More Zero Tolerance Nonsense
Student hands teacher knife to cut string with, ends up in jail.====High school senior Pavlos Karnezis was filing into his first-period physics class one morning last November when a friend approached with a pressing physics problem of his own: how to keep his pants up.Patricia Paquin, principal at Hightower High School in Missouri City, is […]
US: Parents Sue to Overturn Ban on Cellphones
A citywide organization of parent association leaders sued the city's Department of Education today to overturn a ban on students carrying cellphones in public schools.The lawsuit, which the plaintiffs filed in Manhattan, argues that the ban jeopardizes the students' safety by making it hard for them to keep in touch with their parents before and […]
US: Teen Fights for Right to Pick Cancer Treatment
Abraham Cherrix, 16, went through chemotherapy for Hodgkin's disease that left him so weak that his father carried the 6-foot-1 youth from the car to the house. Doctors tell him he needs a second round of chemo to get rid of the cancer that reappeared in February.Abraham says no, and his parents are backing him […]
US: Sex education may get adolescents to delay sex
Note how the emphasis is on getting teens to delay sex, instead of giving them unbiased information and letting them decide what THEY really want.=====NEW YORK (Reuters) -- After participating in a two-week sexual education program designed and implemented by an academic medical center, more middle-school students said they would hold off on having sex […]
UK: Testing 'should be intensified'
Education Secretary officially disregards learning as an important thing in schools, and says there should be lots more emphasis on results and tests.=======The pressure on England's teachers to get pupils through tests and improve school results should be intensified, said Education Secretary Alan Johnson.Mr Johnson told a committee of MPs league tables were "absolutely the […]
US: Schools juggle holidays for Muslims, other faiths
ALBANY, New York (AP) -- Sikh, Muslim, Buddhist, Jewish, Hindu, and Christian -- each faith has its holy days. Schools across the country are asking how to respect them all.Consider the University at Albany, which canceled classes on major Muslim holidays. Faculty wanted the move out of concern for Muslim students after the September 11 […]
News problem fixed
Uhm, I broke the commenting ability... So the people who tried to post comments on news articles didn't get their comments posted. But it's fixed now... sorry bout that... was kinda stupid :P[link]
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