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 […]
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US: Blue Mountain School Needs Your Help
One of the few democratic public schools, Blue Mountain, a charter school in Oregon, faces closure because of a politically stacked change in its local board. Letters need to be sent to the State Superintendent. Here is the info from board member Laura Stine:Dear Friends,Imagine, as a kid, going to a school where you could […]
Persecuted Homeschool Family to Leave Germany
The Neubronners, a German homeschooling family in Bremen, Germany, have been fighting for several years to homeschool their children. When the government refused to allow them to homeschool, they sued. In response, they have been harshly persecuted by the local authorities.The Neubronners have suffered intense pressure in the form of huge, coercive fines (nearing $10,000), […]
Mexican boy glues self to bed to avoid school
A 10-year-old Mexican boy glued his hand to his bed to avoid going back to school after the Christmas break, authorities said Monday."I thought if I was glued to the bed, they couldn't make me go to school," the boy, Diego, told AFP. "I didn't want to go, the holidays were so much fun.""I remembered […]
State loses federal sex education funding
By CHRIS MCGANNSeattle Post-Intelligencerupdated 3:04 a.m. ET, Mon., Dec. 24, 2007OLYMPIA -- The Bush administration is cutting off funding for abstinence-only sex education in Washington because this state now requires schools to provide additional, medically accurate information about preventing unintended pregnancy and sexually transmitted diseases. Up until this year, the state has received an annual […]
Joke of attack freaks out school, principal ill-prepared
A joke by a 'good kid' spreads like a virus through the Internet and text messaging, fueled in part by the principal's attempts to squelch it.December 15, 2007 What began as a student's joke about a gun at Diamond Bar High School quickly warped into an ominous warning of a Columbine-style attack -- complete with […]
Guns N' Roses Lyrics Cause Teacher to Lock Self in Classroom
Karaoke can be scary, but threatening?A school custodian's impromptu after-hours karaoke performance prompted a police response when a teacher thought she was being threatened over the loudspeaker.State police say the teacher at Booth Free School barricaded herself inside a classroom Wednesday when she mistook someone singing a Guns N' Roses song over the public address […]
Iceland High School Student Dials Bush's Phone Number
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Superintendent Terminates Home Education Program Without Authority
On November 5, 2007, the superintendent of General McLane School District notified a Home School Legal Defense Association member family that he had terminated their home education program because they had failed to submit quarterly reports to his office.According to the superintendent's letter to the family, he had approved their program at the beginning of […]
APPROVED: Sydney schools to fingerprint students
The Education Department has given Sydney Schools the all-clear to fingerprint their students.The controversial move is voluntary, but only three parents have declined to allow their children to take part in a trial of the system at Rooty Hill High in Sydney's west.School principal Christine Cawsey has told the Nine Network the system will be […]
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