School Survival

Bush has agreed to pass McCain's anti-torture ammendment. But he's added enough loopholes that the measure is also now a pro-torture ammendment.After threatening a veto, the Bush administration has finally acquiesced to the passage of the McCain Amendment, aimed at protecting detainees in U.S. custody from torture and other abuse. The measure, named for its […]

Nathan Warmack wanted to honor his heritage by wearing a Scottish kilt to his high school dance. Then a principal told him to change into a pair of pants.What began with a few yards of tartan has sparked an international debate about freedom, symbols and cultural dress. More than 1,600 people have signed an Internet […]

On Christmas Day, 1914, only 5 months into World War I, German, British, and French soldiers, already sick and tired of the senseless killing, disobeyed their superiors and fraternized with "the enemy" along two-thirds of the Western Front (in times of war, a crime punishable by death). German troops held Christmas trees up out of […]

Children as young as 12 are to be given nicotine patches by health workers in an effort to help them stop smoking.Pupils at all six secondary schools in Derwentside, County Durham, will be offered nicotine replacement therapy.A pilot programme at a nearby school last year resulted in about half the small sample of children quitting.Under […]

In its current campaign against the revised Private Schools Law, the opposition Grand National Party is going too far. The revision bill which will soon be signed into law by President Roh Moo-hyun after it was railroaded by the ruling Uri Party on Dec. 9 is criticized for instituting improper interference with private school operations. […]

The only reason I'm at home this year instead of in jail -- or worse, dead -- is because California voters said 'treatment not jail.'Five years ago, I was in jail during Christmas and in the full grip of drug addiction. Family, Christmas, all of that was second to my addiction and I was heading […]

Publicolor, a program in which students are permitted to paint over the industrial shades of their schools' interiors, is credited by school officials with lowering dropout rates, decreasing discipline problems and increasing attendance.On Thursday, 14-year-old Pedro Rodriguez was busy splashing oriole orange and apple green paints on the walls. The old colors, he said, "sometimes […]

Non-teaching staff in England's schools are to get the same right to tackle disruptive pupils as teachers.The government's education White Paper proposes giving teachers clearer legal power to restrain children through "reasonable force" if necessary.Head of education at the National Union of Teachers, John Bangs, said: "We are delighted that the government has extended the […]

12/13/2005: Stanley Tookie Williams III was executed early this morning by lethal injection administered by the state of California. Williams, who was weeks from his 52nd birthday, is said to have been a co-founder of the Crips gang in Los Angeles. In 1981, he was convicted of the 1979 murders of four people in the […]

The New York Times doesn't have a good explanation for why it waited until after the 2004 election to print a devastating report against the White House.The New York Times has disclosed that George W. Bush secretly waived rules restricting electronic surveillance inside the United States, allowing spying on hundreds of Americans that normally would […]