School Survival

A daycare in a North York elementary school was under lockdown this morning after a bizarre incident in which a man was found dangling from a tree and impaled by a metal stake.A parent dropping off a child at Roywood Public School - in the York Mills Rd. and Victoria Park Ave. area - called […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

A 16-year-old boy has been charged with murder after his father was stabbed to death at the family's north-west Sydney home, police say.The boy, whose mother was also injured in the early morning attack, has also been charged with attempted murder, police said.The badly wounded mother, aged 50, is thought to have phoned triple-0 for […]

Tragedies can bring unintended consequences. Regrettably, this is happening here in our nation's capital, and homeschoolers are in the line of fire.It all started when District resident Banita Jacks was accused of murdering her four children, who had been dead for months when their bodies were found in January.It was reported that she was a […]

A 15-year-old girl who stopped an out-of-control school bus she was riding on was handed a Saturday detention instead because she was skipping school.Marina High School student Amanda Rouse was on a bus with 40 elementary school students Wednesday morning when the driver fell out of her seat after a turn and hit her head.Rouse […]