School Survival

Grammar school support groups have said they are "disappointed" at the government response to protests over the end of the 11-plus exam. The plan is to stop the 11-plus and allow parents to choose the most appropriate school for their child.Posted by: SoulRiserSource Article

On September 23 Dustin Thomas, a senior at Kalama High School (in the Kalama School District), dropped a friend off at a party. He returned later to pick up another friend who had called him for a ride. On October 3 the Kalama School Board suspended him for 20 days for being present at an […]

Stephen Kobasa taught Catholic school for 25 years. Then he tried to remove the American flag from his classroom. "Everything in the Gospel rejects what flags stand for: boundaries, hatreds, creation of enemies," Kobasa says. "For a Catholic Christian school that holds up the crucifix as a symbol of God's love, the flag can only […]

Truancy Watch is looking for children under the age of 16 who cannot give a good reason [that the likes of them can comprehend -SR] for missing school. Those caught are taken to a special reception centre and both their school and their parents are contacted. Police argue that truants are likely to contribute to […]

A school in Arizona, US, has thrown out its paper-based text books and is relying solely on laptops and digital material to teach its pupils.Posted by: SoulRiserSource Article

Schools should cut the long summer holiday to create a better-educated workforce, says the mayor of one of the biggest cities in the United States. "If you're going to compete with India and China, they're going to school six days a week and they don't take the summer off," said the mayor. "Still having two […]

After a Wal-Mart employee turned in a high school student's anti-Bush poster to the police, the Secret Service came calling.Posted by: SoulRiserSource Article

A survey of 500 primary and secondary teachers for the Teachers' TV channel found 80% blamed discipline problems at school on a lack of parental control. Almost three quarters of those asked said they would support a tough "zero tolerance" approach to bad behaviour.Posted by: SoulRiserSource Article

A south Wales school is giving trials to a fingerprint registration for pupils which could alert parents to absent children in seconds. Children place their finger on a scanner, which reads their print and records their attendance on a computer. It is hoped the system, which would replace the traditional reading of the register, could […]

This is really a breath of fresh air, apparently crime has been eliminated there and the cops have nothing better to do then enforce a school rule against bringing certain toys to school. Must be the safest place in America. However I do have to question the quality of education in a school that can't […]