School Survival

A 10-year-old school boy committed suicide by jumping from his 19th floor apartment here after his parents banned him from playing computer games.Andrei Smirnov, a class three student, jumped to his death yesterday after receiving the wrath of his parents due to bad conduct in school and a poor performance in studies.The boy's class teacher […]

Halloween is banned at a Brooklyn high school - and Hitler's to blame.A year after Walter Petryk, 17, came to school in a fuhrer-style mustache and Nazi uniform, Leon M. Goldstein HS for the Sciences sent home a letter on Thursday banning Halloween costumes - and Petryk is peeved.Petryk - a senior who has already […]

School security guards in Palmdale, CA have been caught on camera assaulting a 16-year-old girl and breaking her arm after she spilled some cake during lunch and left some crumbs on the floor after cleaning it up.The incident occurred last week at Knight High School in Palmdale and was caught on a cell phone camera […]

What does a National Guard soldier who lost his contact lenses in a sandstorm in Kuwait have in common with a bankrupt mom from South Jersey who needs new tires on her car?They both made wishes on the Internet. Both wishes came true. And in both cases, the genie was a 36-year-old Cherry Hill man.Dave […]

A new situation representing the plight of homeschoolers in Germany is developing in the state of Hesse.The Dudeks, a homeschooling family of eight, were tried, convicted and fined 900 euros (about $1,200) in May for not sending their children to school. Hessian law allows for an exception to compulsory school attendance in "compelling cases." But, […]

When you hear stories of high academic achievement by homeschoolers, it's routine for opponents to try to minimize the results by asserting that not all homeschoolers are required to test over the same testing instruments.Their goal is to show that homeschooling isn't a viable educational alternative that can benefit a large number of children. If […]

A SEVEN-year-old girl was made to strip naked by her teacher in a New Delhi school for not completing her homework.She was made to strip completely naked and stand on a desk in her class on Friday while other students were asked to boo her."The teacher was arrested on a complaint by the parents but […]

Children with ADHD have less activity in parietal brain areas while performing attention-demanding problem-solving tasks. Credit: UQA team of researchers working with UQ's Queensland Brain Institute (QBI) has discovered more compelling evidence that attention-deficit disorder in young boys is substantially attributable to brain development.UQ neuroscientist, Dr Ross Cunnington said there appeared to be a biological […]

Channel 4 News Online reveals that the number of children being schooled at home has risen by more than 60 per cent in the past five years.More than 80 per cent of education authorities reported hikes in the number of children being educated at home, according to the Freedom of Information (FoI) probe.In one area […]

Teens exposed to second-hand smoke at home are at increased risk of test failure in school, suggests a new study in the Journal of Adolescent Health."Our retrospective study suggests that in adolescents, second-hand smoke exposure could interfere with academic test performance," said lead author Bradley Collins, assistant professor of public health and director of the […]