School Survival

When it comes to securing the homeland, who better to help you sleep at night than various characters from the popular children's show, "Sesame Street" ... ?!? Seriously. In a move that will make Bush administration detractors bring back those duct tape jokes again, the Department of Homeland Security has partnered up with the famous […]

THE GOVERNMENT reckons laws on "suicide websites" are too lax and need rewriting before they do serious damage.Times are hard, and a recent spate of suicides has prompted the government to take a closer look at information available online about easy, painless ways to kick the bucket.Under a 1961 Suicide Act it is illegal to […]

MARIETTA, Ga. -- Parents are criticizing Marietta school officials after video of a chaotic school bus ride was posted on YouTube.The incident began last Friday, when school officials said the driver pulled over to write up students who were being unruly.A cell phone camera captured students on the bus getting more upset, after the students […]

A United Nations agency is quietly drafting technical standards, proposed by the Chinese government, to define methods of tracing the original source of Internet communications and potentially curbing the ability of users to remain anonymous.The U.S. National Security Agency is also participating in the "IP Traceback" drafting group, named Q6/17, which is meeting next week […]

A Phoenix high school teacher resigned after being accused of playing pornographic videos during class earlier this week. The Scottsdale Unified School District said the photography teacher, who has been and employee at Arcadia High School for about the last five years, submitted his resignation letter Wednesday. Police opened an investigation into the allegations this […]

Green Bay, Wisconsin - A 33-year-old woman is accused of stealing her daughter's identity to attend high school and join the cheerleading squad.Wendy Brown is charged with felony identity theft after enrolling in a Wisconsin high school as her daughter.The criminal complaint says Brown admitted to telling school officials she was 15 because she wanted […]

Children as young as eight have been recruited by councils to "snoop" on their neighbours and report petty offences such as littering, the Daily Telegraph can disclose. The youngsters are among almost 5,000 residents who in some cases are being offered

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. -- A Colorado Springs elementary school principal has apologized for making students look inside a soggy bag of human feces and urine.Peyton Elementary Principal Michael Auclaire said he wanted to make a point to the students because someone had been leaving human waste on the floor and toilet seats in a girl's […]

ALBANY -- Albany High students arrived by car, foot and city bus. It almost looked like a regular school day, except it was Saturday. The high school opened this weekend, allowing students to pick up their course schedules after a problem with the school's scheduling system forced administrators to cancel the first two days of […]

A Thornton High School student was abducted by three masked men and gang-raped after she was kicked off a school bus in Harvey, a lawsuit filed Tuesday charges.According to the suit naming Thornton Township High School District 205, Kickert Bus Line and bus driver Nicole Dyer, the unnamed minor was on her way home from […]