School Survival

On September 13th, 2006, Kimveer Gill walked onto the bustling campus of Dawson College in Montreal and began to fire at random. Hours later, he was dead - but the story was just beginning. In the days to follow, the amateur computer game "Super Columbine Massacre RPG!" would be named by the mainstream media as […]

NSW Education Minister John Della Bosca says parents should not allow their school-aged children to participate in major APEC protests because they could find themselves in a potentially "dangerous situation".Mr Della Bosca says major protest groups such as Resistance, Mutiny and the Stop Bush Coalition were actively recruiting students to attend APEC protests early next […]

It may be something of a teenage nightmare: limits on when a wireless phone can make and receive calls and to whom, restrictions on text messages and talk time, and set allowances for ring tones and other downloads -- all at a parent's fingertips. AT&T Inc., the nation's largest wireless carrier, will launch a service […]

Mother Jones has a long, chilling feature on The Judge Rotenberg Education Center, a private radical behavior-modification school based in Canton, Mass. The school is run by a rogue behaviorist who uses discredited "punishment" techniques -- electroshock -- on children as young as nine to change their personalities.Matthew Israel, the school's $400,000/year executive director, straps […]

A Colorado Springs elementary school is banning the game of tag on its playground -- after some children complained that they'd been chased or harassed against their will.Assistant Principal Cindy Fesgen of the Discovery Canyon Campus school said running games will be allowed, as long as students don't chase each other.Fesgen said two parents complained […]

Examiners have raised concerns over the amount of "sickeningly violent" content in students' creative coursework for their English GCSEs.An examiners report from the Edexcel board said one of the most frequently used titles for creative writing coursework was "The Assassin".It comes amid national alarm over a spate of murders and attacks involving young people.The report […]

Officials at an Arizona school suspended a 13-year-old boy for sketching what looked like a gun, saying the action posed a threat to his classmates.The boy's parents said the drawing was a harmless doodle and school officials overreacted."The school made him feel like he committed a crime. They are doing more damage than good," said […]

A school uniform maker said yesterday it was "seriously considering" adding tracking devices to its clothes after a survey found many parents would be interested in knowing where their offspring were.Trutex would not say whether it was studying a spy in the waistband or a bug in the blazer but admitted teenagers were less keen […]

Baghdad Eisteddfod show 'teacher's idea'A controversial Sydney high school production attacked by the federal government as a political protest against US President George W Bush represents the views of a teacher, a student says.The 2007 Rock Eisteddfod entry titled Bad Knight II, by Davidson High School in Sydney's north, includes students as young as 12. […]

CHICAGO, Aug. 9 Two middle school students are suing the Chicago Board of Education because their teacher denied them a bathroom break.Cousins Seneca Ammons and Keefe Ammons Jr. were suspended from school for using the bathroom without permission after their teacher denied the whole class a bathroom break as punishment, The Chicago Sun-Times reported Thursday.The […]