A mother found guilty of failing to ensure her son attended school despite trying to physically drag him there has had her conviction quashed.The woman was convicted last year by Liverpool magistrates using the Education Act 1996.A High Court judge ruled it should have been down to the prosecution to prove she had failed to […]
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UK: Mother's truancy conviction wrong
UK: Secondary school destroyed in sudden blaze
A 1000-pupil secondary school has been all but destroyed after fire ripped through its building in the early hours of this morning.Fourteen separate fire tenders fought the raging blaze at Penyrheol Comprehensive School, near Swansea, south Wales, at its height.Water from a leisure centre swimming pool on the school campus was used to douse the […]
New name for rebel kids: Indigo Children
Some kids who are intelligent, defy authority and generally think outside the box are being called Indigo Children now... but they get special treatment, because they've been put on earth to save humanity, or so the story goes...---Donna Cork knows her 9-year-old son, Logan, is different from other kids.He's highly creative, resistant to authority, abhors […]
US: Denver teacher reinstated
DENVER - A high school teacher who triggered an uproar by telling students that some of President Bush's remarks sounded like Adolf Hitler will be back in the classroom Monday, vowing to be a better teacher while still promoting "social justice."Social studies teacher Jay Bennish was reinstated Friday after more than a week on paid […]
US: SAT Errors Raise New Qualms About Testing
The scoring errors disclosed this week on thousands of the College Board's SAT tests were made by a company that is one of the largest players in the exploding standardized testing business, handling millions of tests each year.The mistakes, which the company, Pearson Educational Measurement, acknowledged yesterday, raised fresh questions about the reliability of the […]
KOREA: Parents Get School Records via Cell Phone
Parents will receive various information about their children's activities in elementary and secondary schools in Seoul via cellular phone messages.The Seoul Metropolitan Office of Education decided Sunday to expand the message services to all elementary, middle and high schools in the city as a similar pilot program in several schools has drawn positive response from […]
US: Teacher who compared Bush and Hitler put on leave
DENVER (AP) -- A high school social studies teacher who was put on leave after comparing President Bush's State of the Union address to speeches made by Adolf Hitler defended his lecture on Tuesday, saying he was trying to encourage students to think."My job as a teacher is to challenge students to think critically about […]
US: Human Rights school has unusual mission
NEW YORK (AP) -- When 10th-graders at the School for Human Rights debated in a recent class whether Crips co-founder Stanley Tookie Williams should be executed, they knew the question was moot.Williams, a convicted killer who later became an outspoken critic of gang violence, died by injection in December. But for the students at this […]
UK: 14-yo stripped and washed by staff
A mother faces legal action for removing her disabled son from a special school after staff stripped and showered him without her knowledge.The 14-year-old who has cerebral palsy was washed by two assistants after staff said he smelled of urine.An investigation by governors concluded staff acted correctly, despite a written apology from the head of […]
UK: Taking children out of school for holidays is illegal
PARENTS are breaking the law if they take their children out of school for holidays during term without the permission of the head teacher, the High Court ruled yesterday.Schools, not parents, must decide whether children can be withdrawn from lessons for holidays or other family activities, Lord Justice Auld and Mr Justice Sullivan ruled.They declared […]
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