School Survival

by whistlingwings Apart from the mandatory aspect of it, I thought of another problem. It is not just that it is mandatory in and of itself, it is that what produces a creative and open minded person is not present in the school system. Our history books often are twisted to paint our respective country […]

Students at Liechty Middle School engaged in a silent protest during their graduation ceremony last week and it wound up costing them their diplomas. "The students turned their backs on graduation speaker Monica Garcia, LAUSD Board President, to express their displeasure to teacher layoffs and cutbacks," press materials explain. Principal Jeanette Stevens then decided to […]

The award-winning feature documentary, THE WAR ON KIDS, launches a nationwide grassroots screening tour that will bring the debate about public education to dozens of campuses and communities nationwide. In 95 minutes, THE WAR ON KIDS exposes the many ways the public school system has failed children and our future by robbing students of all […]

For teens, there is no greater joy than graduating high school. Shaking off the shackles of education and claiming that hard-fought diploma is truly an epic day. Unfortunately, for several students at Bonny Eagle High School in Maine, their natural exuberance has led to some surprisingly serious problems.On Friday night, when the senior class was […]

Parents may soon be able to read their children's text messages as part of a plan to give them more control over rapidly developing technologies.It is being billed as another tool in parents' armouries, but civil libertarians say if you need to pry into your kids' phones then you are not doing a good job […]

For eight years, Jessica Terry suffered from stomach pain so horrible, it brought her to her knees. The pain, along with diarrhea, vomiting and fever, made her so sick, she lost weight and often had to miss school. Her doctors, no matter how hard they tried, couldn't figure out the cause of Jessica's abdominal distress.Then […]

PORTAGE - Police arrested five students after a food fight during lunchtime at Portage High School.The teens were led from the school in handcuffs Tuesday after yogurt and taco salad flew across the cafeteria.The mother of one of the teens, Wendy Mitchell, thinks the school overreacted by calling police. So does Lee Ann Vesley, whose […]

CANBERRA (Reuters) - A student who fell with a noose around his neck during a mock class hanging that was arranged by teachers has enraged Australian authorities.The high school student fell from a table while fellow students, under the supervision of a teacher, were photographing a staged hanging as part of an English class project."It […]

WITHthinning demand for real estate and growing cash constraints, many developers are now looking at thriving sectors. They are divesting in non-core businesses such as education with a conviction that it's a recession-proof sector.Experts believe that the reason behind this shift is a widening demand-supply gap in education sector. It may also be a rational […]

Some school banned a bunch of books, so this girl took copies of them and checks them out to other classmates like you would at a real library.----Is it OK to run an illegal library from my locker at school?Let me explain.I go to a private school that is rather strict. Recently, the principal and […]