School Survival

When it comes to securing the homeland, who better to help you sleep at night than various characters from the popular children's show, "Sesame Street" ... ?!? Seriously. In a move that will make Bush administration detractors bring back those duct tape jokes again, the Department of Homeland Security has partnered up with the famous […]

MARIETTA, Ga. -- Parents are criticizing Marietta school officials after video of a chaotic school bus ride was posted on YouTube.The incident began last Friday, when school officials said the driver pulled over to write up students who were being unruly.A cell phone camera captured students on the bus getting more upset, after the students […]

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. -- A Colorado Springs elementary school principal has apologized for making students look inside a soggy bag of human feces and urine.Peyton Elementary Principal Michael Auclaire said he wanted to make a point to the students because someone had been leaving human waste on the floor and toilet seats in a girl's […]

Green Bay, Wisconsin - A 33-year-old woman is accused of stealing her daughter's identity to attend high school and join the cheerleading squad.Wendy Brown is charged with felony identity theft after enrolling in a Wisconsin high school as her daughter.The criminal complaint says Brown admitted to telling school officials she was 15 because she wanted […]

A Phoenix high school teacher resigned after being accused of playing pornographic videos during class earlier this week. The Scottsdale Unified School District said the photography teacher, who has been and employee at Arcadia High School for about the last five years, submitted his resignation letter Wednesday. Police opened an investigation into the allegations this […]

ALBANY -- Albany High students arrived by car, foot and city bus. It almost looked like a regular school day, except it was Saturday. The high school opened this weekend, allowing students to pick up their course schedules after a problem with the school's scheduling system forced administrators to cancel the first two days of […]

Since losing his hair to a serious illness as a young child, Dale Platts and his baseball cap have become inseparable. The New York Yankees hat has not only helped the 13-year-old to cope with the cruel taunts of other children, but also protects his head and lashless eyes from the sun. But the schoolboy […]

A Thornton High School student was abducted by three masked men and gang-raped after she was kicked off a school bus in Harvey, a lawsuit filed Tuesday charges.According to the suit naming Thornton Township High School District 205, Kickert Bus Line and bus driver Nicole Dyer, the unnamed minor was on her way home from […]

So are you one of the smug ones at the school gates or in the staffroom?As the new school year began in most parts of England, Wales and Northern Ireland this week, parents, students and school staff fell into one of two camps.There were those with webbed feet who had spent their holiday in the […]

WILLOUGHBY, Ohio (AP) - A distraught student carrying more than 30 rounds of ammunition shot a handgun twice in his high school's hallway Tuesday and threatened to kill himself before two administrators persuaded him to surrender, police said.No one was injured at Willoughby South High School, northeast of Cleveland, Willoughby police Lt. Randy Sevel said.Witnesses […]