School Survival

Five teenage boys brandishing machetes and baseball bats have left a trail of destruction and injuries in their wake, after storming a western Sydney high school, police say.The terrifying rampage through Merrylands High School left 18 students and one teacher injured and may have been motivated by revenge, police said.ADVERTISEMENTTeachers immediately locked down the school […]

WELLINGTON (Reuters) - Children in a New Zealand school have been banned from bringing cakes to share on their birthdays, due to new government healthy eating guidelines.Pupils at Oteha Valley primary school north of Auckland have been told they are allowed to celebrate their birthdays, but the cake must stay at home, the New Zealand […]

The mother and half-sister of a teenage girl allegedly put her in bed and went to watch TV when they knew she had taken a heroin overdose, a court heard.Carly Townsend, 16, died in the night at their Carmarthenshire home in May.Andrea Townsend, 45, and Gemma Evans, 25, of Pwll, Llanelli, deny manslaughter through gross […]

ALLEGAN, Mich. - Is fifth-grader Kenton Stufflebeam smarter than the Smithsonian? The 11-year-old boy, who lives in Allegan but attends Alamo Elementary School near Kalamazoo, went with his family during winter break to the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Natural History in Washington.ADVERTISEMENTSince it opened in 1981, millions of people have paraded past the museum's […]

Officials in Georgia have thwarted a plot by a group of third-grade special education students to kill their teacher.Officials at the Center Elementary School in Waycross, Ga., learned of the plot on March 28, when a student told authorities about the plan before the start of the school day, the Waycross Journal-Herald reports.The plot by […]

Patricia Elalem said she couldn't believe her daughter's kneecap dislocated after what at first seemed like a minor injury.Even more troubling to Elalem is what might have caused the injury to worsen. Elalem says a nurse at Walker Middle School in Odessa took away 13-year-old Amber's crutches last month, forcing the girl to walk in […]

The intro is available in 3 more languages: Romanian, Czech and German. Thanks to Escapist for the Romanian, Puchiko for the Czech, and Selene_Ger for the German translations. :) If you can translate into any other languages we don't have yet, head over to this forum thread to see what needs translating.

A group of more than 20 Tibetan schoolchildren has staged a protest in the main United Nations compound in Nepal's capital, Kathmandu.A UN spokesman said the children, aged between 15 and 18, and dressed in school uniform scaled the wall.This is the boldest Tibetan protest in nearly three weeks in Kathmandu.Tibetan exiles say police have […]

An 11-year-old girl died after her parents prayed for healing rather than seek medical help for a treatable form of diabetes, police said Tuesday. Everest Metro Police Chief Dan Vergin said Madeline Neumann died Sunday. "She got sicker and sicker until she was dead," he said. Vergin said an autopsy determined the girl died from […]

A South African village is demanding that a bridge be built across a crocodile-infested river to stop children swimming it to get to school.Students as young as seven have been making the crossing for two months since the community's boat was stolen."There are about 70 households on that side of the river but there are […]