School Survival

SALT LAKE CITY --Brent Tenney says he feels pretty safe when he goes to class at the University of Utah, but he takes no chances. He brings a loaded 9 mm semiautomatic with him every day."It's not that I run around scared all day long, but if something happens to me, I do want to […]

(AP) NEW DELHI Teachers in a village school in western India sprinkled cow urine on several low-caste students to purify them, a news report said Saturday.Sharad Kaitade, a new upper-caste headmaster at a school in Surewada village in Maharashtra state, allegedly ordered a few teachers to hold a special prayer ceremony and purify the school […]

Many of you have been following the story of Melissa Busekros, who was taken from her home by police on February 1, 2007, just because her family homeschooled her.On this past Monday, her 16th birthday, Melissa determined that she would decide for herself where she would live.In the early morning hours of Monday, April 23, […]

Professor gets fired for re-enacting the Virginia TEch shootings in a class discussion.A professor has been fired from his job at a Catholic college in Boston after leading his class in a discussion about the shootings at Virginia Tech two days afterward.Financial accounting professor Nicholas Winset pretended to shoot some students during the discussion at […]

BLACKSBURG, Va. - A gunman opened fire in a dorm and classroom at a college in Virginia on Monday, killing at least 30 people in the deadliest campus shooting in U.S. history. The gunman also was killed, and more than a dozen other people were injured. "Today the university was struck with a tragedy that […]

(CBS) LYNWOOD, Ill. Just feet from where standardized tests lie on a desk, a video shows the Sandridge Elementary School principal having sex with a teacher in his office on that desk.Principal Leroy Coleman and teacher Janet Lofton resigned Thursday after the footage emerged showing them having sex in Coleman's office at Sandridge Elementary School. […]

In this day and age where young students are frequently charged for serious school offenses such as possessing weapons, dealing drugs, or assaulting other students on school property, one Brooklyn teen's arrest may come as a surprise. A 13-year-old girl was handcuffed and placed under arrest in front of her classmates in Dyker Heights after […]

HOMEWORK should be scrapped in the early years of primary school and its place in high schools reviewed amid concerns it is a practice without any academic benefits.The national umbrella organisation of parents and citizens groups, the Australian Council of State School Organisations, has called for a review of the setting of homework, arguing there […]

Up to 5.9million children face having their fingerprints taken by schools in another move towards a 'Big Brother' society.Pupils will have to hand over their biometric details simply to borrow library books or gain access to school dinners. A million children's fingerprints are believed to have been taken already, some without parental approval and even […]

My life in the last 3 years was blown to hell. I had a house a dog and cat.I had friends that callled me everyday and now i live in a 2 room apt. With mom (step)dad and john in plano texas going to school with rich snobby kids. 8 years ago i moved to […]