School Survival

A school with one of the country's worst truancy records is issuing its pupils with Savile Row suits.Tom Mahon - tailor to Prince Charles - has designed suits to replace the replace polo shirts and sweaters worn by the 750 children at the Manchester school.The Savile Row touch is being applied as part of a […]

NEW YORK: Whom to blame if the sperm from a sperm bank leads to complications in children?An American teenager, who was born with a genetic disorder called X syndrome causing mental impairment, has filed a suit against the sperm bank that her mother used to conceive her.Thirteen-year-old Brittany Donovan from Pennsylvania is suing the sperm […]

Celebrity culture is fuelling violence and sex among children, says schools tsarUnruly pupils are copying the worst behaviour they see from footballers and celebrities on television, the Government's discipline tsar said today.Sir Alan Steer, a retired head who has conducted a four-year investigation into school discipline, claimed that abusive football stars fuelled violence in the […]

Prime Minister Gordon Brown has pledged to ensure every young person has done 50 hours of voluntary work by the time they are 19 years old.Mr Brown said a promise to bring in compulsory community service would be a part of his next election manifesto.Under the scheme, the work may include helping charities and is […]

A Bristol secondary school has tried out a new style of sex education by letting teenage pupils examine a line-up of naked men.The pupils at Hanham High School, aged 14 to 16, watched a screen in the main hall showing a live feed of different men who were being filmed in the school's gym.The youngsters […]

LAKELAND, Fla. - An eighth-grader was suspended from riding the school bus for three days after being accused of passing gas.The bus driver wrote on a misbehavior form that a 15-year-old teen passing gas on the bus on March 16 to make the other children laugh, creating a stench so bad that it was difficult […]

The raising of the school leaving age to 15 over 50 years ago could go some way to reducing dementia rates in the elderly, a study has suggested.A Cambridge University team compared the mental abilities of elderly people, and found those born after the change fared better.They say that further changes to the school leaving […]

Well, that was fast.Texas Board of Education creationist Barbara Cargill today proposed an amendment to the science standards saying that teachers have to tell their students there are different estimates for the age of the Universe. This is not even a veiled attempt to attack the Big Bang model of the Universe, which clearly, and […]

Savana Redding still remembers the clothes she had on - black stretch pants with butterfly patches and a pink T-shirt - the day school officials here forced her to strip six years ago. She was 13 and in eighth grade.An assistant principal, enforcing the school's antidrug policies, suspected her of having brought prescription-strength ibuprofen pills […]

If a private college doesn't receive funds from any governmental organization, should they have to be held to any standards or requirements when they award degrees? No, one Texan lawmaker is insisting.Texas State Representative Leo Berman has proposed House Bill 2800, which would exempt any private non-profit institution that requires students to complete "substantive course […]