A 16-year-old Berlin student was so worried he would have to repeat a year at school because of poor marks he convinced two friends to storm his class and steal the report cards with his bad grades."The student probably honestly believed that he could avoid repeating the school year if he made the report cards […]
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Germany: Student stages robbery to wipe bad grades
Teachers give insulting awards at ceremony
Sixth-grader Matt Porter didn't enjoy getting "Most Likely Not To Have Children" and "Sir Clowns-a-Lot" awards from two teachers at his school.His parents aren't pleased, either.Matt said he received the awards in front of classmates during a ceremony at the Decatur Intermediate Learning Center at the end of the recently finished school year. His mother […]
Homeschoolers win contests
The winners of this year's National Geographic Bee, Caitlin Snaring of Washington state, and the Scripps National Spelling Bee, Evan O'Dorney of California, were educated primarily by their parents in home-based instruction programs, a fact that was underreported by the media. Another underreported fact is that despite homeschoolers making up just 3 percent of the […]
Petition: Don't Raise the UK School Leaving Age to 18
The UK Government plans to raise the school leaving age from 16 - 18 years old by 2015.All 16-18 year olds will have to stay in school, training or workplace training once this legislation goes through. All the names of the 16 and 17 year olds will be recorded in a database to allow local […]
Imposter Caught - High schooler pretending to be a Stanford student!
High school graduate pretends to be a Stanford student, even living in the dorms, buying textbooks and 'studying' for examsAzia Kim was like any other Stanford freshman. She graduated from one of California's most competitive high schools last June, moved into the dorms during New Student Orientation, talked about upcoming tests and spent her free […]
UK: Length of fingers 'show how a pupil will do at maths or English'
Parents can predict their children's exam performance simply by looking at their hands, according to research.Psychologists claim that results in English and maths tests are linked to the length of fingers.Pupils with longer ring fingers are said to be more likely to excel in numeracy while those with shorter ring fingers tend to be more […]
Hack My Son's Computer, Please
Can an elderly father give police permission to search a password-protected computer kept in his adult son's bedroom, without probable cause or a warrant? In April, a three judge panel of the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals said yes.This week, the son's attorney, Melissa Harrison, an assistant federal public defender in Kansas City, will ask […]
'Have sex, do drugs,' speaker tells students
A guest speaker at an assembly at Boulder High School in Colorado has told students as young as 14 to go have sex and use drugs, prompting school officials to say they will investigate.The instructions came from Joel Becker, an associate clinical professor of psychology at the University of California at Los Angeles."I am going […]
German Appeals Court Returns Custody of Homeschooled Girl to Parents
Yesterday, a German appeals court in Bavaria set aside a lower court ruling that had authorized the Youth Welfare Office in Erlangen Germany to retain custody of 16-year-old homeschooler Melissa Busekros.In its opinion the Appeals Court stated that although the lower court ruling was justified based on the evidence at the time, later evidence shows […]
Teen Rebellion is not just a phase
We all have heard the term "teenage rebellion." It's conventional wisdom that teens go through a period of turbulent adolescence before-it is hoped-they settle down and become mature, productive adults.Recently, the media and sections of the scientific community have concluded that because brain scans show the teen brain operates differently than the average adult brain […]
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