Gray, who is 6, said he brought his book bag to school on Monday, but when he set it down, one of his family's butter knives fell out onto the cafeteria floor. A teacher walked up to question him. The school now plans to give the boy a one-day in-school suspension as part of its […]
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US: Boy Faces Suspension For Bringing Butter Knife To School
US: Two Students Suspended For Web Postings
Content being posted on a Web site is pitting some Valley High School students against administrators. Two students have been suspended because of what they posted on the site Myspace.com. Chris Bright is one of two students suspended by Valley High School for posting a picture of Valley's principal Vicky Poole on the site.Posted by: […]
US: School Board Bans Book About Vietnam
The book was a 1990 Pulitzer Prize finalist, but students will no longer find it on the shelves of the school library in Solon. The Solon School Board has voted to ban the Vietnam-themed book, "The Things They Carried" by Tim O'Brien. Members said it is a good book but it's too mature for eighth-graders.Posted […]
UK: Schoolbook returned 62 years late
A retired engineer who finally handed back a school library book he had borrowed more than 60 years ago has been spared
UK: Girl fires BB gun in school
A teaching assistant was threatened with an imitation gun by a gang of schoolgirls in Liverpool after telling them off, police have said. The woman was left traumatised after one of three girls, all aged 14, pulled a BB gun, which fires plastic pellets. The girls were arrested shortly after the incident on Monday afternoon.Posted […]
US: Schools directed to expand history curriculums
State legislators across the country are increasingly directing their schools to teach students more about the struggles and triumphs of different races and ethnic groups -- a move critics say amounts to politically correct meddling.Posted by: SoulRiserSource Article
US: Exercise mandatory in Calais area schools
It's official: Exercise is mandatory these days for all students and staffers in area schools. The exercise: singing and dancing. Kids wiggled and sang while waving their arms over their heads, holding their thumbs straight up in the air, and sticking their tongues out.Posted by: SoulRiserSource Article
UK: Schools bribe students to attend by offering medals
"Last issued in 1920, the medals will be awarded to pupils who have 100% attendance record for a whole year." - Well I guess they'd deserve a damn medal for surviving hell every day for a whole year!Posted by: SoulRiserSource Article
US: 'Intelligent design': Religion or science?
A relatively new concept to explain how Earth was created and life was formed is gaining in popularity throughout the United States. It's called "intelligent design." It's a controversial idea, primarily because some want to incorporate it in the science curriculum at public high schools. And one of those people happens to be the president […]
UK: Heads jailed for school cash scam
Two ex-head teachers have been jailed after fleecing thousands of pounds from school funds for deprived youngsters.Posted by: SoulRiserSource Article
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