The mother of a member family in Boerne, Texas, needed to drive her 14-year-old daughter to her summer job. Knowing the trip would take just a few minutes, the mother left her 10-year-old at home alone. By accident, the 10-year-old dialed 911, then hung up.Not long after, a police officer visited the family's home to […]
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US: Social Worker Investigates Child Left Home Alone
US: Law would force 16- and 17-year-olds to stay in school
If a Springfield school board member gets her way, the law could get a lot tougher on teens who want to drop out of high school.Board member Debbie Tolliver supports creating legislation to raise the state's legal dropout age from 16 to 18. She hopes other school boards will endorse the idea."The purpose is so […]
Bats Invade Arkansas Elementary School
MANSFIELD, Ark. (AP) - It's just a few day into the new school year and teachers are already being driven batty. By bats.Bats are roosting inside Mansfield Elementary School, and it appears the problem has gotten worse since classes resumed in August. In some cases, teachers have had to move students out of their classrooms.School […]
US: Teenagers Go Nude in Vermont Town
Some have appeared naked in a downtown parking lot. Others rode their bicycles or simply strolled the streets in the nude.Teenagers in the quaint Vermont town of Brattleboro are raising eyebrows this summer with brazen displays of nudity.So far they haven't been arrested or ticketed: public nudity isn't illegal in the town of 13,000 people, […]
Is There a Youth Movement?
In the last six years I have seen a lot of brave efforts to concieve, convince, and contrive a broad youth movement across the US and around the world. There are actually several organizations that hold this effort as one of their undergirding principles. Old-line youth orgs like scouts, Boys & Girls Club, and YMCA […]
US: School canceled indefinitely in Gary, Indiana
Ongoing teacher strike reaches fourth dayGARY, Indiana (AP) -- Officials on Thursday indefinitely canceled classes citywide after teachers, striking for a fourth day, blocked streets and swarmed a car attempting to park at an elementary school. Two picketers were slightly hurt as the car rolled through the crowd."This behavior compromises the district's goal to ensure […]
Religion enters Russian schools
The Orthodox Christian religion is being made a compulsory school subject in four of Russia's regions.Pupils in the Belgorod, Bryansk, Kaluga and Smolensk regions will be taught the basics of Orthodox Christianity.It will also be included as an optional subject in the school curriculum in 11 other regions across the country.Supporters say the move will […]
UK: Stabbed girl faced 'gang culture'
A teenage pupil stabbed in the eye with scissors has told of a "gang mentality" based on music and fashion tastes.The 15-year-old girl narrowly escaped losing her sight in the attack at a Surrey school last November.Giving evidence by video at Guildford Crown Court, she told how she had been the victim of a string […]
US: 128 Students Suspended for dress code violations
Classrooms were a little less crowded at Morton High School on the first day of classes: 128 students were sent home for wearing the wrong clothes.Fed up with inappropriate outfits, the principal suspended the students for one day Wednesday, minutes after doors opened at the school. Those suspended represent more than 10 percent of the […]
Siren Song of the Counter Culture
Interview: Punk rock band Rise Against's frontman Tim McIlrath talks about the importance of preaching to audiences on the opposite side of ones political views.When they made their entry into the saturated world of punk rock, Chicago's Rise Against had humble goals: play some shows, put out a few records and maybe, if things went […]
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