The Willows Unified School District board of trustees has expelled a 16-year-old for having unloaded shotguns in his pickup parked just off the Willows High School campus. The board voted 4-0 Thursday to expel junior Gary Tudesko after the weapons were discovered via scent-sniffing dogs on Oct. 26. Board Vice President Alex Parisio abstained from […]
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Student expelled for having unloaded shotguns in truck
Reasons in favour of public schooling
The following has been submitted by Abrar al Haq, a young Bradfordian. It is the first in a series of posts that will focus on educational standards in Bradford. Reasons in favour of public schooling 1. Children who receive a one-on-one home education will learn more than others, giving them an unfair advantage in the […]
Leaving a Vulgar Comment Online Might Cost You Your Job
A backlash against anonymous commenters and trolls seems to be underway. Only last month, a court case was settled where anonymous commenters ended up having to pay big fines to the women who they defiled using vulgar, derogatory remarks on an internet forum. And previously, an anonymous blogger in the modeling industry was forced to […]
Students' speech rights become murkier on social networking Web sites
School rules are trickier in cyberspace. As social networking sites attract younger followers, schools across the country are grappling with the fuzzy boundary between harmless online chatter and valid security concerns. The issue hit North Texas this month when two Frisco middle-schoolers were suspended for threatening to kill their teacher on Facebook. Legal experts say […]
School Considers Charging For Detention
Afterschool Detention Slip Could Get More Costly NUTLEY, N.J. - A school in New Jersey is considering charging kids who get sent to detention. The Nutley School District in Essex County claims it spends about $10,000 a year on overtime and maintenance to run afterschool detention. Officials said kids who are there all the time […]
Evolution and history compulsory
Primary school children in England will have to learn about evolution and British history under a shake-up of the national curriculum. Schools Minister Vernon Coaker says the subjects will be compulsory elements of a new primary school curriculum being introduced in 2011. Scientists and humanists had lobbied ministers for the inclusion of evolution in the […]
Boy, 9, forgotten in school 'closet'
The mother of a special-needs student says a Lockhart Elementary School teacher's aide left her son in the school's timeout room last year for nearly four hours. The aide went home and forgot about the 9-year-old boy, who sat alone in the dark on the floor of a windowless 3-by-5-foot room before a janitor freed […]
Boarding school for troubled teens files for closure
The school’s history is a twisted one, involving atypical therapy methods and company mergers, good intentions and success stories, but also cases of what some, including the state, call abuse. The story behind the academy’s closure. An era ended when Mount Bachelor Academy closed Nov. 3, following allegations of child abuse by the state Department […]
Is there such a thing as school phobia?
A school is being asked to apologise to the family of a boy it prosecuted for truancy. The boy was diagnosed as having "school phobia", but what exactly is that? Most adults can remember days when they vehemently didn't want to go to school. There would be protestations of illness, and of the danger of […]
Judge Asks School Paper to 'Tidy Up' Remarks
WASHINGTON — The school newspaper at Dalton, a private school in Manhattan, contained a cryptic note from its editors last Friday. “We are not able to cover the recent visit by a Supreme Court justice due to numerous publication constraints,” the note said. It promised “an explanation of the regrettable delay” in the next issue. […]
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