A backlash against anonymous commenters and trolls seems to be underway. Only last month, a court case was settled where anonymous commenters ended up having to pay big fines to the women who they defiled using vulgar, derogatory remarks on an internet forum. And previously, an anonymous blogger in the modeling industry was forced to […]
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Teen In Detention For Not Visiting Dad
A Michigan teen has been sentenced to four days in juvenile detention for refusing to visit his father. Jacob Mastrogiovanni, 14, lives with his mother in Warren. His father, who has joint custody, lives in New Baltimore.Mastrogiovanni said he has deliberately missed court ordered visitations with his father, and because of that, Macomb County Judge […]
Students' speech rights become murkier on social networking Web sites
School rules are trickier in cyberspace. As social networking sites attract younger followers, schools across the country are grappling with the fuzzy boundary between harmless online chatter and valid security concerns. The issue hit North Texas this month when two Frisco middle-schoolers were suspended for threatening to kill their teacher on Facebook. Legal experts say […]
Teen calls 911 after parents take Xbox
A 15-year-old boy called 911 after his parents took away his Xbox as a punishment. The Chicago Tribune reports that the teen dialed 911 on Sunday afternoon, but then hung up. Police were sent to his Buffalo Grove, Ill., home where he asked police whether his parents could legally take away his Xbox from him. […]
South Park Episode and Facebook Group Inspire School Violence
The beating of 12-year-old boy by a group of classmates at a Southern California middle school may be linked to a Facebook posting encouraging kids to target redheads, authorities say. The redheaded boy was beaten up by a group of seventh and eighth graders at A.E. Wright Middle School in Calabasas in two separate incidents […]
School Considers Charging For Detention
Afterschool Detention Slip Could Get More Costly NUTLEY, N.J. - A school in New Jersey is considering charging kids who get sent to detention. The Nutley School District in Essex County claims it spends about $10,000 a year on overtime and maintenance to run afterschool detention. Officials said kids who are there all the time […]
Evolution and history compulsory
Primary school children in England will have to learn about evolution and British history under a shake-up of the national curriculum. Schools Minister Vernon Coaker says the subjects will be compulsory elements of a new primary school curriculum being introduced in 2011. Scientists and humanists had lobbied ministers for the inclusion of evolution in the […]
Boy, 9, forgotten in school 'closet'
The mother of a special-needs student says a Lockhart Elementary School teacher's aide left her son in the school's timeout room last year for nearly four hours. The aide went home and forgot about the 9-year-old boy, who sat alone in the dark on the floor of a windowless 3-by-5-foot room before a janitor freed […]
Taser gun used on 10-year-old girl who 'refused to take shower'
A police officer used a Taser stun gun to subdue a 10-year-old girl in her own home. The officer had been called to the girl's home in Ozark, Arkansas, by her mother because she was behaving in an unruly manner and refusing to take a shower. In a report on the incident the officer, Dustin […]
Catholic Church Threatens To Stop Feeding Homeless Over Gay Marriage
The Catholic Archdiocese of Washington said Wednesday that it will be unable to continue the social service programs it runs for the District if the city doesn't change a proposed same-sex marriage law, a threat that could affect tens of thousands of people the church helps with adoption, homelessness and health care. Under the bill, […]
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