A Jasper County mother says her 8th grade son found a video camera taping in the school bathroom this week. But now, he is the one in trouble. Cindy Champion says her son, Mac Bedor, and a few of his friends took the camera out of the ceiling because they felt it violated their privacy.Posted […]
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US: Students Face Punishment for Anti-Bush Walkout
On Nov.2, 20 college students in Virginia staged a walkout on the World Can't Wait day of action. The school administration shut down the protest and threatened to expel them.Posted by: SoulRiserSource Article
US: New textbook aims to teach Bible
Since the U.S. Supreme Court banned the promotion of religion in public schools in 1963, the Bible has virtually disappeared from most American classrooms. Now, a new textbook for high school students aims to fill a gap by teaching the Bible, both the Old and New Testaments, in a non-sectarian, nonreligious way as a central […]
US: Tennessee high school newspaper seized
OAK RIDGE, Tennessee (AP) -- Copies of a high school's student newspaper were seized by administrators because the edition contained stories about birth control and tattoos, stirring a First Amendment debate.Posted by: SoulRiserSource Article
US: Teacher accused of giving 'liberal' quiz
BENNINGTON, Vermont (AP) -- A high school teacher is facing questions from administrators after giving a vocabulary quiz that included digs at President Bush and the extreme right.Posted by: SoulRiserSource Article
UK: Scheme to cut term-time holidays
A much-publicised scheme to stop families in England going on holiday in term-time has finally begun. It is hoped the scheme will help reduce current estimates that one in six truants on a given day is away with their parents on a family holiday.Posted by: SoulRiserSource Article
What's the Buzz? Rowdy Teenagers Don't Want to Hear It
BARRY, Wales - Though he did not know it at the time, the idea came to Howard Stapleton when he was 12 and visiting a factory with his father, a manufacturing executive in London. Opening the door to a room where workers were using high-frequency welding equipment, he found he could not bear to go […]
US: Principal resigns after shaming student
An elementary school principal resigned after parents denounced her for parading an 8-year-old girl from class to class after a classmate falsely accused her of stealing $5.Posted by: SoulRiserSource Article
US: Mother punishes daughter by public humiliation
Tasha Henderson got tired of her 14-year-old daughter's poor grades, her chronic lateness to class and her talking back to her teachers, so she decided to teach the girl a lesson. She made Coretha stand at a busy Oklahoma City intersection November 4 with a cardboard sign that read: "I don't do my homework and […]
US: No Child Left Behind lawsuit thrown out
A judge threw out a lawsuit Wednesday that sought to block the No Child Left Behind law. The NEA and school districts in three states had argued that schools should not have to comply with requirements that were not paid for by the federal government.Posted by: SoulRiserSource Article
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