School Survival

A third-grader at Brazos Elementary was given a week’s detention for possessing a Jolly Rancher. School officials in western Fort Bend County are defending the seemingly harsh sentence. The school’s principal and superintendent said they were simply complying with a state law that limits junk food in schools. But the girl’s parents say it’s a […]

The ACLU is pushing Congress to outlaw corporal punishment in the United States. Although the practice has been banned throughout New England, it is currently legal to use physical punishment as a means of disciplining students in 20 states, primarily in the South. The House Education and Labor Subcommittee on Healthy Families and Communities held […]

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 […]

In an era when students talk back to teachers, skip class and wear ever-more-risque clothing to school, one central Texas city has hit upon a deceptively simple solution: Bring back the paddle. Most school districts across the country banned paddling of students long ago. Texas sat that trend out. Nearly a quarter of the estimated […]

The mother of a 16-year-old boy said she shut him out of his Facebook account after reading he had driven home at 95 mph one night because he was mad at a girl. His response: a harassment complaint at the local courthouse. "If I'm found guilty on this it is going to be open season" […]

A few times each month, second graders at a charter school in Springfield, Mass., take time from math and reading to engage in philosophical debate. There is no mention of Hegel or Descartes, no study of syllogism or solipsism. Instead, Prof. Thomas E. Wartenberg and his undergraduate students from nearby Mount Holyoke College use classic […]

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 […]

by Smalls Have you ever had a fully answered question from your teachers about the rules or in what the school believes in? Do they just dismiss you with a "Well you should know that!" answer? I can tell you with complete truth that i have never had any of my answers answered in a […]