School Survival

"Parents must insist on continence outside marriage and fidelity in marriage as the only true and secure education for the prevention of AIDS. Parents, schools, and colleges must also reject the promotion of so-called "safe sex" or "safer sex", a dangerous and immoral policy based on the deluded theory that the condom can provide adequate […]

UP TO 1000 students from Sunbury College walked out on strike yesterday afternoon - protesting over a proposed merger with Sunbury Downs Secondary College that could take place as early as next year.The two secondary schools, which are a few kilometres apart, could become one, with Sunbury College to become the junior campus for year […]

I sit, smiling ear to ear, holding a book unlike any other. Isamu Fukui's Truancy has brought sadness, happiness and laughter to my entire being. His writing may soon be compared with names such as Tolkien, Rowling and Richard Adams when it comes to fantasy writing. Isamu's first novel is a swift kick in the […]

Last week, an intriguing proposition was mooted by Government minister Dawn Primarolo. Teenage girls, she said, could be steered towards what is described as "long-term contraception".This is now possible thanks to the development of contraceptive jabs and implants which can last up to five years.In other words, there is a way of effectively sterilising girls […]

Northern Illinois University Says 16 Others WoundedThe president of Northern Illinois University said five people died Thursday in a "rapid fire" shooting at a lecture hall that ended in the gunman's suicide.University President John Peters said four of the victims, including the gunman, were found dead at the scene of the shooting, which took place […]

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 […]

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 […]

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) […]

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 […]

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 […]