When a youth at the Bowling Brook Preparatory School lost consciousness last week while being restrained by staff, workers delayed administering CPR or calling for an ambulance because they believed he was pretending to be asleep, according to a report sent by the school to the Maryland Department of Juvenile Services.When the paramedics were finally […]
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CPR, 911 call for youth were delayed - staff believed boy feigned sleep while unconscious
Broad Voucher Plan Is Approved in Utah
SALT LAKE CITY, Feb. 10 (AP) - The Utah State Legislature approved one of the broadest school voucher programs in the nation on Friday, allotting up to $3,000 for any public school student to put toward private school tuition.Voucher programs in the handful of other states that have them are generally intended for poor families […]
Mutilating for God -- Some children are forced into bloody rite
The 6-year-old boy screamed and shook his head to avoid the razor blade. But his father held him firmly as Hajj Khodor parted the boy's black hair and sliced his forehead three times with the blade.Ali Madani's cries became more violent as blood gushed from the wound, covering his small, terrified face. His father and […]
German Homeschooled Child Sentenced to a Child Psychiatry Unit
The situation for homeschoolers in Germany is getting worse each week. Just last Thursday, a 17-year-old homeschooled girl was forcibly removed from her parent's custody by over 15 police officers. The homeschooled girl has been placed in the child psychiatry unit of the Nuremberg clinic.Homeschooling is not legal in Germany. There are over 40 cases […]
Texas governor orders STD vaccine for all girls
AUSTIN, Texas - Bypassing the Legislature altogether, Republican Gov. Rick Perry issued an order Friday making Texas the first state to require that schoolgirls get vaccinated against the sexually transmitted virus that causes cervical cancer.By employing an executive order, Perry sidestepped opposition in the Legislature from conservatives and parents' rights groups who fear such a […]
Too much homework can be counterproductive
Instead of improving educational achievement in countries around the world, increases in homework may actually undercut teaching effectiveness and worsen disparities in student learning, according to two Penn State researchers.Most teachers worldwide are not making efficient use of homework, said David P. Baker, professor of education and sociology. They assign homework mostly as drill, to […]
NYCLU Calls On State Regents To Reject Regulations Permitting Schools To Use Noxious Stimuli To Punish Students With Disabilities
The New York Civil Liberties Union today called on the New York State Board of Regents to reject regulations that would permit New York State schools to use electric skin shock, electric shocks, beatings, isolation, restraints, food deprivation, and other "aversive" stimuli to control the behaviors of children with disabilities.In June 2006 the New York […]
US: Just another Mississippi school paddling
In January 2004, at an elementary school in Mississippi, Johnny was sent by his classroom teacher to the Principal's office to be punished. Johnny, who was 10-years-old at the time, did not know the reason for the punishment.He describes the instrument used on him as "a big solid wooden paddle." He remembers the first three […]
US: No-spank bill on way
SACRAMENTO - The state Legislature is about to weigh in on a question that stirs impassioned debate among moms and dads: Should parents spank their children?Assemblywoman Sally Lieber, D-Mountain View, wants to outlaw spanking children up to 3 years old. If she succeeds, California would become the first state in the nation to explicitly ban […]
Teen wants armor, sword in his yearbook photo
PORTSMOUTH, R.I. - Seventeen-year-old Patrick Agin often spends a week whittling a single arrow, and he's learning to make chain mail armor by hand. So when it came time to submit a senior yearbook photo, he selected a snapshot of himself wearing chain mail and slinging a prop sword over his shoulder. Portsmouth High School […]
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