School Survival

Argentinian justice orders site to block youngsters' truancy campaign BUENOS AIRES, Argentina - A judge in the Argentine province of Mendoza has ordered Facebook to shut groups created by minors to organize mass truancy from school. The order by judge Alfredo Dantiacq Sanchez comes after more than 2,000 adolescents in schools across the province's capital […]

by Laurie A. Couture I think it is a denial fantasy that the relentless verbal abuse that used to pound through the hallways of the Exeter Area Junior High in 1987 and 1988 have magically disappeared in 2010 at Cooperative Middle School. It's the same school, same hierarchical institution, same oppressive school rules, just in […]

A 14-year-old boy is believed to have voted in the general election in Lancashire. Police are investigating whether the boy filled in a ballot paper in the Wyre and Preston North Constituency. Wyre Borough Council said it believed an underage person had cast a vote on Thursday and the matter had been passed to the […]

New Jersey teens opposed to the nation's first state law requiring young drivers to display license plate decals that identify them as inexperienced have gained support for their cause from several state lawmakers and a national youth rights advocacy group. The statute known as Kyleigh's Law takes effect Saturday. It requires New Jersey drivers ages […]

I just received this on the National Youth Rights Association mailing list: NYRA has gotten involved in an ever escalating battle in New Jersey over Kyleigh's Law, a new law that goes into effect Saturday that will require provisional drivers under 21 to display a red sticker on their license plate identifying them as under […]

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Monday agreed to decide whether California may forbid the sale of violent video games to children. Lower courts have consistently struck down similar laws under the First Amendment, declining to extend obscenity principles to images of violence. The Supreme Court’s decision to hear the case in the absence of […]

All the dirty laundry younger people seem to air on social networks these days might lead older Americans to conclude that today's tech-savvy generation doesn't care about privacy. Such an assumption fits happily with declarations that privacy is dead, as online marketers and social sites such as Facebook try to persuade people to share even […]

School lunches have been called many things, but a group of retired military officers is giving them a new label: national security threat. That's not a reference to the mystery meat served up in the cafeteria line either. The retired officers are saying that school lunches have helped make the nation's young people so fat […]

I just read this on Idzie's blog: If you're an unschooler, or a homeschooler, or interested in alternative learning, and are even *slightly* involved in any of those communities online, you've most likely heard about the Good Morning America segment on unschooling. Unschooling has been moving steadily into the mainstream awareness in the last few […]

A 13-year-old Yemeni girl who was forced into marriage died five days after her wedding when she suffered a rupture in her sex organs and hemorrhaging, a local rights organization said Thursday. Ilham Mahdi al Assi died last Friday in a hospital in Yemen's Hajja province, the Shaqaeq Arab Forum for Human Rights said in […]