School Survival

Nine Massachusetts teenagers were indicted Monday for driving a pretty 15-year-old "new girl" from Ireland to suicide in a case that has become a symbol of high school and online bullying. The sweeping charges - which come after months of complaints that the bullies weren't being punished - include statutory rape, violation of civil rights […]

A father tried to give his 11-year-old daughter a time-out, but she ended up getting charged with a misdemeanor. Around 9:30 p.m. March 24, the girl and her 7-year-old brother got into a fight over who got to sit in a certain chair, according to an Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office arrest report. The father ended […]

A COURT has ordered two young girls to spend weekends with their sex offender father provided he puts a door on their bedroom they can lock. Judge Robert Benjamin, in the Family Court's Hobart branch, ruled that the girls "need some protection from (their father), particularly at night". However, the risk of sexual abuse was […]

A Mississippi county school board announced Wednesday it would cancel its upcoming prom after a gay student petitioned to bring a same-sex date to the event. "Due to the distractions to the educational process caused by recent events, the Itawamba County School District has decided to not host a prom at Itawamba Agricultural High School […]

A 17-year-old Ypsilanti High School student was tasered today after police say he refused to go to the principal’s office. Washtenaw County Sheriff’s Department spokesman Derrick Jackson said the student was being unruly in the hallway and was being escorted to the principal’s office by school Deputy John Campbell. Jackson said the student yanked away […]

One of the provisions in the Credit Card Accountability Responsibility and Disclosure Act, which took effect a week ago, prohibits card companies from issuing plastic to people younger than 21, unless the potential customer can either prove a means to repay the credit or find someone 21 or older to co-sign for the card and […]

Parent Says Student Should Not Be Kicked Out Of School OAK GROVE, Mo. -- School officials said two girls have been suspended because of what one of them posted on her Facebook page. But the girl's parent said it's the issue is freedom of speech, regardless of what happened at school because of it. Megan […]

The parents of a Kentuckiana seventh grade student say their young daughter was suspended from school for doing exactly what she's been taught to do for years - to just say no to drugs. The girl did not bring the prescription drug to her Jeffersonville, IN school, nor did she take it, but she admits […]

by Alex DiBranco At a San Francisco school, a 13-year-old boy hit another youth and took 46 cents by him. He says the punch was meant as a joke, and the harassed student was unhurt; he apologized and returned the loose change. I have strong feelings against bullying, and I'm not even a fan of […]

Kevin and Elizabeth Schatz adopted three kids from an orphanage in Liberia to live with their other six kids in a remote area outside Sacramento. As it turns out, the children might have been better off remaining in that lawless African shithole... The Schatz's homeschooled their nine children and grew their own food. Which would […]