School Survival

If you have a blog or site that you post about your school on, this site will tell you how you can defend it from nosy school administrators that would love to punish you for posting your opinions online.In other news, I re-organized the contents bar (again). I tried to organize it in a similar […]

As explained in a new book, Mission Rejected, the sight of U.S. troops kicking the heads of decapitated Iraqis around 'like a soccer ball' made Army soldier Joshua Key desert to Canada.The following text is an excerpt from Peter Laufer's new book, "Mission Rejected: U.S. Soldiers Who Say No to Iraq" (Chelsea Green, 2006).http://alternet.bookswelike.ne..."We was […]

Black and Hispanic students see school as a more rowdy, disrespectful and dangerous place than their white classmates do, a poll says.The findings suggest that many minority kids are struggling in the equivalent of a hostile work environment, according to Public Agenda, a nonpartisan opinion research group that tracks education trends.Minority children in public middle […]

They want to randomly drug test everyone in UK schools. At least some drug charity has the balls to say something about it:Introducing random drugs tests in schools is an "extreme measure" which may drive abuse underground, a drugs information charity warns.The criticism from DrugScope follows news that secondary schools in Kent will be carrying […]

People in the UK are bitching and moaning that too many 5 to 11 year olds are skipping classes. They think that if they bitch at kids to attend school earlier in their lives, they'll be more obedient later.====Ministers have ordered a crackdown on truancy and absence in primary schools after figures showed a rise […]

Lying in his hospital room, on a mattress designed to protect his fragile skin, 13-year-old Achim Nurse poked his bandaged fingers at an orange button on what looked like a souped-up video game console.Half a second later, in a social studies class discussing the Erie Canal, a 5-foot-tall (1.5-meter-tall) steel-blue robot raised its hand."You have […]

America prides itself on its unlimited opportunity. So why are fewer and fewer young people able to attend college, find jobs and reach the middle-class promised land?Renee, a white 26-year-old, grew up in St. Paul, Minnesota. Her parents wanted nothing more than to send her to a four-year college when she graduated from high school, […]

A newly declassified State Department memo provides the first hard evidence that the Bush administration manipulated and ignored intelligence in their thirst for war.Sixteen days before President Bush's January 28, 2003, State of the Union address in which he said that the US learned from British intelligence that Iraq had attempted to acquire uranium from […]

Attorney General Alberto Gonzales stated at a press conference on Sunday that he believes reporters should be prosecuted for printing classified information just as much as those who leaked the information in the first place.Gonzales went on to state that the government will continue to tap the phones of reporters as part of a criminal […]

Apparently the stress of dealing with students not following orders is causing teachers to develop illnesses. OK, what about the stress school causes for students? Maybe that's why they don't follow orders? :P ... Here's the article:====Schools urgently need off-site "behaviour" units to deal with unruly pupils, teaching experts have said.The Educational Institute of Scotland […]