School Survival

It's a small plastic thing, resembling a guitar in basic appearance only.But Blake Peebles brings energy to the room when he slides the strap over his skinny shoulder and steps atop the wooden box that serves as a stage.As the music begins, Blake quickly presses buttons on the guitar in time to a speed-metal tune […]

Back in February, a California court stunned the homeschooling families in the state when it declared that Mom or Dad had to have a credentialed teaching degree - or else their kids would be considered truants. The ruling affected approximately 200,000 children and raised protests from grass-roots activists all the way to the office of […]

The president of a school safety consulting firm said districts like Uniontown Area, which is considering arming its police officers with Tasers, have to take a conservative approach to their deployment and develop a comprehensive policy.But an attorney for the American Civil Liberties Union said it's hard for him even to see a need for […]

Linda Zimase was known as Phumba because his classmates thought it was funny that he was fat like the cartoon warthog.The 16-year-old boy was teased incessantly, had no friends and came home upset almost every day.He preferred to walk away from fights and never stood up for himself, his sister Precious said on Thursday.This week […]

GREENVILLE COUNTY, S.C. -- An 18-year-old was punched in the face 13 times by a deputy police officer, whose dashboard video camera caught the incident on tape, WYFF Channel 4 News reported.The video shows undercover Deputy Brian Tollison pulling over a truck driven by a drug suspect and beating the teenage driver while what appears […]

KY 3 News' Sara Sheffield reports on an injured teen from Ozark, Missouri who was tasered up to 19 times by police.Passing motorists called Ozark police out of concern for the teen as he walked along the busy overpass. When the police arrived, the young man was lying on the shoulder of the highway directly […]

A homeschooling family in Southern Germany spent six hours in a grueling German Family Court session this week with the hopes of regaining custody of their six homeschooled children, who have been held in state custody since January. After the long and confusing session, the Gorbers regained custody of their 3-year-old son. The judge, meanwhile, […]

Children are being denied adventurous play because their parents are nervous about exposing them to risk, a new survey suggests.The UK-wide poll, commissioned by Play England, found half of 7-12 year olds have been stopped from climbing trees.It also showed 21% of those surveyed had been banned from playing conkers, and 17% were not allowed […]

Weekends of tea parties and play dates aren't in the forecast for 5-year-old Yunona Bukasov. She's too busy scaling some of the world's highest mountains.Despite her young age, the Salt Lake City resident has already summited some of the world's highest peaks, including central California's Mount Whitney, the tallest peak in the continental United States […]

One million innocent Britons 'criminalised', says damning report.A generation of young Britons is being criminalised for life by the relentless expansion of the national DNA database, ministers are warned today.Alarm and hostility over the massive scale of the collection of DNA has been uncovered by groundbreaking research funded by the Home Office among panels of […]