High school calls all 2,550 students to detention By Linda Jump, Florida TodayPALM BAY - An accidental push of a button Friday had students at Palm Bay High questioning what they'd done wrong and parents plotting punishments.Parents of all 2,550 students in the school received an automated call Friday reminding them that their student had […]
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2,550 Students in Detention
Autisic Student Handcuffed For Singing
SAN FRANCISCO, California, Feb. 1, 2008 (NBC) -- The parents of an autistic San Jose, California sixth-grader are expressing outrage that their son was put in handcuffs because he would not leave a class.Eleven year old Gunnar Moody said that it all started when he was singing a song while doing sit-ups in physical education […]
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So you have a Wifi Hotspot, Utah wants you to Verify Userage
A bill that would require those operating WiFi networks to verify users' ages has come under fire. Introduced to the Utah House of Representatives by Rep. Bradley Daw (R-Orem) late last month, the bill seeks to protect children from accessing "material harmful to minors" via public WiFi networks.If you think that sounds like an unreasonable […]
Tragedy Prompts Calls for Heightened Scrutiny of Homeschoolers
Just weeks after Banita Jacks was arrested for allegedly murdering her four daughters, a Washington D.C. family received a visit from a D.C. Child and Family Services (CFS) caseworker.Though the caseworker was there to investigate abuse allegations, she questioned the family about the children's schooling. Upon learning that the Hansons (name changed to protect privacy) […]
SE'XBOX
Fox News makes factually incorrect report regarding a sex scene in the new sci-fi RPG 'Mass Effect'. ---BioWare's Mass Effect has been receiving some very critical "reporting" from Fox News, which in turn has received a great deal of backlash.Mass Effect developed for Microsoft Xbox 360 by BioWare has been receiving some interesting press that […]
South Carolina Will Place Ads Inside School Buses
South Carolina will begin selling ad space inside their public school buses-11-inch strips above the windows are now for sale, and "Interested school districts get about $2,100 per month per bus."The South Carolina Board of Education approved the plan last month, and appears to be moving forward with it. "I never thought [advertising inside school […]
Student punished for making a proxy
A COMPUTER literate high school kid was dragged out of his philosophy exam finals and told he may not graduate because he built a proxy server at home.Robert Fafnani made a new proxy for a small group of friends called Afnani's Moo Proxy. Apparently a few kids at his school, Langley High started using it. […]
School Breaking All the Rules
It has been called the school where almost anything goes. Summerhill - where, famously, pupils are not obliged to go to lessons if they don't feel like it - has been characterised as everything from a version of Lord of the Flies to a 21st-century answer to Lindsay Anderson's If Critics perceive it as some […]
US: Blue Mountain School Needs Your Help
One of the few democratic public schools, Blue Mountain, a charter school in Oregon, faces closure because of a politically stacked change in its local board. Letters need to be sent to the State Superintendent. Here is the info from board member Laura Stine:Dear Friends,Imagine, as a kid, going to a school where you could […]
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