School Survival

Ashoka's Youth Venturer Sky Choi is one busy 12-year-old. Apart from starting The List Kids to serve young Iraqi refugees in the U.S. he is also starting his university studies in physics, speaks multiple languages, has a third degree black belt in taekwondo, and says that he hopes to always make a difference in the […]

Lithuania's incoming president on Thursday criticized a bill approved by lawmakers that bans gay speech in schools, the AP reported. Dalia Grybauskaite spoke out against the bill: “I'm very much upset that such kind of laws in Lithuania are possible,” she told reporters at a news conference in Stockholm, where she appeared with Swedish Prime […]

NEW YORK—Unlike many teachers, Beth Simon hasn't banned her college students from using their cell phones or the Internet during class. Instead, the computer science professor encourages them to text message responses to her questions and research information on the Web while she is lecturing. "They're going to use it no matter what," said Simon, […]

A school police officer was taken to the hospital after being assaulted by a summer school student at Northeast High today. The incident happened at about 10:15 a.m. at the Cottman Avenue school when a ninth grade student "mouthed off" to a female school police officer, said Barbara Farley, a Philadelphia School District spokeswoman. Officers […]

Mayor Robert Correia said beginning in September, a call will go out to find youths who are willing to serve on all city boards, committees and commissions, including the City Council and School Committee. The youths will be able to voice opinions but will not have a vote. “The youth have stepped up in the […]

Since 1993, Syosset High School’s student government has been gathering for two nights during the school year to continue the search for a cure for cystic fibrosis (CF). This year has been no exception. Over 30 students participated in an annual phone-a-thon, part of a national school program through the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation called CureFinders, […]

A proposal by Gov. Deval Patrick could open the door to a charter school education for more Cape Cod students. Patrick filed a bill yesterday that would triple the number of charter school slots, giving preference for expansion to charter schools that have already shown a high level of achievement. The proposed legislation increases the […]

A California mom says her public school administrators violated her daughter's First Amendment rights when they ordered the seventh-grader to take off her pro-life T-shirt. Anna Amador has gone to court on behalf of her daughter, who she says was ordered by her principal to change her shirt on "National Pro-Life T-Shirt Day." The shirt […]

Even students have the right to a clean restroom, at least according to some at John F. Kennedy Middle School in Redwood City. When the students led the task themselves, they joined a growing youth rights movement in San Mateo County. Jose Ceja, a sophomore at Sequoia High School, helped the students organize surveys about […]

by .xstrike-anywherex. School already sucks for most kids. Wouldn't it suck more if you were told every day that nothing you were doing mattered? That your social lives, your writing, your creativity, your games, were all just a fucking waste? That it was all going to be meaningless one day. There's a lot of things […]