School Survival

WGRZ.com is reporting that a prank has gone horribly wrong for 18-year-old Tyell Morton. The high school senior, who reportedly has never been in trouble before, was arrested last week after school surveillance cameras captured a picture of a man dressed in a hooded sweatshirt and wearing latex gloves, concealing a package and leaving without […]

Ohio College to Review Ban on Peaceful Distribution of Literature on Campus
May 23, 2011
by Adam Kissel

Ohio's Sinclair Community College (SCC) has announced that it will review an unconstitutional policy that prohibits all distribution of literature on campus by individual students. SCC...

The founder of a controversial school that treats severely autistic and emotionally disturbed children by shocking them into submission with the use of electrodes has been forced to quit the institution and serve five years' probation.

Matthew Israel, a Harvard-trained psychologist, has created...

by Donna St. George --- 06/01/11 --- The Washington Post --- http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/more-schools-are-rethinking-zero-tolerance/2011/05/26/AGSIKmGH_story.html

Nearly two decades after a zero-tolerance culture took hold in American schools, a growing number of educators and...

Crop circles might be known for their beauty and paranormal allure, but the giant phalluses etched into the field of a New Zealand high school hold no such mystique. Fairfield College, in the North Island town of Hamilton, has been snapped by satellite cameras with six huge penises burnt into the grass. The x-rated image, […]

YOU’D think there would be a little sympathy. This month, college graduates are jumping into the job market, only to land on their parents’ couches: the unemployment rate for 16- to 24-year-olds is a whopping 17.6 percent.

The reaction from many older Americans? This generation had it coming.
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James Wallace said he and his wife, Tammy, gave permission for the Belfry Middle School principal to paddle their 12-year-old son in November for spitting on another child in a fight.

But Wallace said his son ended up in a hospital emergency room for treatment of bruises and blisters on his...

The brother of a Black Earth church pastor who advocated corporal punishment for children of church members pleaded guilty Wednesday to child abuse and causing mental harm to a child.

A plea agreement would have asked Dane County Circuit Judge Sarah O’Brien to place John R. Caminiti, 45, on...

While searching for a school in New York for my two-year-old son, I recently made the disturbing discovery that children are still beaten in both private and state schools in America. I had assumed that a country built on a belief in liberty and disgust for “cruel and unusual punishment” would not...

A Toronto District School Board ban on the use of cellphones and other personal electronic devices in classrooms and hallways will be eliminated in September.

Early Thursday, the school board voted to lift the four-year-old ban; however, it will remain in effect for the remainder of the current...