School Survival

A Montgomery County teacher has agreed to apologize to a 13-year-old student whom he reprimanded and sent to the office for twice refusing to stand during the Pledge of Allegiance, said a lawyer who represents the student. The unidentified student was embarrassed and humiliated after the teacher called a school security officer to escort her […]

Parent Says Student Should Not Be Kicked Out Of School OAK GROVE, Mo. -- School officials said two girls have been suspended because of what one of them posted on her Facebook page. But the girl's parent said it's the issue is freedom of speech, regardless of what happened at school because of it. Megan […]

A Brooklyn teenager may be headed into the history books as the City Council's youngest member ever. Abraham Tischler, 18, is vying for the Borough Park Council seat once held by Simcha Felder, who recently took a job with city Controller John Liu. The Touro College sophomore said his lack of experience will actually help […]

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Iowa State University Distinguished Professor of Psychology Craig Anderson has made much of his life's work studying how violent video game play affects youth behavior. And he says a new study he led, analyzing 130 research reports on more than 130,000 subjects worldwide, proves conclusively that exposure to violent video games makes more aggressive, less […]

The parents of a Kentuckiana seventh grade student say their young daughter was suspended from school for doing exactly what she's been taught to do for years - to just say no to drugs. The girl did not bring the prescription drug to her Jeffersonville, IN school, nor did she take it, but she admits […]

Many college students are involved in campus politics, but University of Massachusetts Lowell sophomore Jonathan Loya is shooting for Beacon Hill. The 19-year-old from Holliston, Mass. has announced his decision to run for Massachusetts State Representative of the Middlesex Eighth District. Loya is a political science major at UMass-Lowell and a member of the Libertarian […]

BEIRUT (AFP) -- In a country where 18-year-olds can drive, marry and serve in the army, allowing them to vote would generally be applauded as a boon for democracy. But not so in Lebanon. A move to lower the voting age from 21 to 18 has sparked fears of a shake-up of Lebanon's political structure, […]

by Alex DiBranco At a San Francisco school, a 13-year-old boy hit another youth and took 46 cents by him. He says the punch was meant as a joke, and the harassed student was unhurt; he apologized and returned the loose change. I have strong feelings against bullying, and I'm not even a fan of […]

Kevin and Elizabeth Schatz adopted three kids from an orphanage in Liberia to live with their other six kids in a remote area outside Sacramento. As it turns out, the children might have been better off remaining in that lawless African shithole... The Schatz's homeschooled their nine children and grew their own food. Which would […]