Police have arrested a Georgia woman who they say forced her son to kill his pet hamster with a hammer as punishment for earning a bad grade. Meriwether County sheriff Steve Whitlock told the Atlanta Journal-Constitution Thursday night that the 12-year-old boy told his teacher about the killing. The teacher reported it to the Division […]
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Boy forced to kill his hamster as punishment for bad grades
Rise of Anxiety and Depression Linked to Rise in Schooling
by Peter Gray, Ph.D. The Dramatic Rise of Anxiety and Depression in Children and Adolescents: Is It Connected to the Decline in Play and Rise in Schooling? Children are more anxious and depressed than ever before. Why? Rates of depression and anxiety among young people in America have been increasing steadily for the past fifty […]
Ohio: Teen's suicide attempt ignored by guard
COLUMBUS, Ohio -- An Ohio youth prison guard was fired and two others were disciplined after a teen offender's attempt to hang himself in a juvenile detention cell was ignored, according to an investigative report obtained by The Associated Press. One guard, who was fired Thursday, saw the youth with a blanket around his neck, […]
No excuses for sex abuse in juvenile detention
In a groundbreaking study released earlier this month by the Bureau of Justice Statistics, an unconscionable 12.1 percent of youths confined in juvenile detention facilities reported being sexually abused at their current facility in the past year. As shocking as this statistic is, Texas children in custody fared even worse. Of the 13 Texas facilities […]
Schooling: The hidden agenda (a speech by Daniel Quinn)
New article added to the articles section: Schooling: The hidden agenda. It's a speech Daniel Quinn (author of Ishmael) gave at a home-schooling/unschooling conference. For those of you with short attention spans, here are some snippets I found interesting. I've even bolded some parts so if you have very SEVERE attention span issues, you can […]
On Being "Childish"
by Idzie Have you ever heard someone be accused of being "childish", or been accused of that yourself? You probably have, because that's an extremely common insult. It's used when you have political opinions that other people disagree with (anarchy, for instance, is incredibly childish!), it's used when you dare to defy authority and stand […]
Ball and chain to force children to study
Parents struggling to get their kids to revise in the run-up to exams can now keep them at their desk using a ball and chain that only unlocks when they have studied for long enough. Concerned mums and dads set the desired study time on the Study Ball and attach it to their child's ankle. […]
Attorney Larry Walters: Some rational comments on sexting
by Amy Hasinoff: Some excellent quotations from attorney Larry Walters in this in-depth interview: When Sex and Cell Phones Collide: Inside the Prosecution of a Teen Sexting Case, touching on a number of key points absent in most mainstream media coverage of sexting: 1. Sexting is normal for teens. It’s not a trend, a plague, […]
Alhambra HS Locked Down After Student w/a Weapon is Arrested
A junior at Mark Keppel High School in Alhambra was arrested today, and two handguns and drug paraphernalia were seized, thanks in part to a dog trained to sniff out trouble. A private security firm was doing a sweep of the nearly 2,500-student campus in the 500 block of East Hellman Avenue, when a dog […]
Teacher fired for reporting child abuse, sues school
A former assistant principal at Goodlow School says he was fired for reporting suspected child abuse. Kenneth Taylor says that while he was assistant principal of the school, a coordinator/teacher in the Reading First program told him that she observed a special education teacher "kick the legs out from under a second grade student who […]
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