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Principal Got Rid of Security Guards and Then Something Unbelievable Happened
Where most people saw a "drop out factory" and "career killer," Andrew Bott saw a school with potential.
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Girl, 13, Suspended for Bringing Butter Knife to Cut Fruit at Lunch
A butter knife is causing some major controversy in Attleboro, Massachusetts.
Yes, a butter knife.
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Deaf Child Prohibited From Signing His Own Name Because It Looks Like a Gun — Is It Fair? [VIDEO, POLL]
Hunter Spanjer, a deaf preschooler in Grand Island, Nebraska, is being prohibited from signing his name (in sign language) because administrators at his school believe that the gesture he uses looks like a gun.
Wait, what?
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Students Won’t ‘Like’ This — Elementary School Threatens Expulsion If Kids Use Facebook
A while back, we told you about the Jewish girls’ school in Brooklyn that instituted a Facebook ban for its students, saying using the social media site violated its religious tenets.
Now an elementary school in Australia is following suit, but its demand that kids delete their Facebook pages has an entirely different reason: it’s an attempt to wipe out cyber-bullying.
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Reading, Writing and…Spelling?
January 24, 2012 When I was in first grade I remember learning the rules of the alphabet, in between picking my nose, teasing my class mates and raising my hand saying "pick me pick me!" Remember the one "i before e except after c ?" BTW, that rule only applies to digraphs, so words like "deity" and "science" don't count
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Horrible Teacher Bully’s Special Need Student
November 17, 2011 WARNING - this is bad. Really bad.
It's hard enough on a student to be enrolled in a special needs program and have to deal with other students' bullying, but in this case the worst bully is the special needs teacher
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Prestigious Waldorf Private School Keeps Computers Away from Kids
The 160 Waldorf private schools in the United States boast an impressive student body: the children of tech luminaries from firms like eBay, Google, Apple, Yahoo and Hewlett-Packard.
But what makes Waldorf a seemingly odd choice for such parents is that until kids are in the eighth grade, the school is completely unwired with not a computer screen to be found.
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Returning Soldier Surprises Young Son at School [VIDEO]
We admit it. These things make us misty.
Army Specialist Matthew Peters of Owensville, Missouri spent a year deployed in Kuwait and Iraq, and hadn’t seen his young son, Blake, in more than six months. When he came home, he decided to pop in on the unsuspecting tyke at school for a hug the kid will probably never forget.
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Crack Pipe For Show And Tell In Kindergarten?
September 21, 2011 Show and tell was nearly transformed into a drug lab in a rural Missouri school. A kindergartener in Sweet Springs came to school with a bag of crystal meth and a crack pipe ready to educate his classmates on what his Mom finds very precious.
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British School Bans Students from Wearing Makeup
If you think girls these days just grow up too darned fast, you’ll like this.
Shelley College, a secondary school in Britain, thought its female students were painting themselves a little too heavily and spending too much time primping in the bathrooms, so officials banned anyone 16 and younger from wearing cosmetics.
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Jet Powered School Bus Breaks 300 MPH
These guys are a little bit nuts. One would have to have a few screws loose to take a 42,000 horse power engine, put it in a school bus, and then attempt to get the bus over 300 mph! Oh, and they said they want to offer rides to willing volunteers! Would you take a ride in the rocket bus?
This reminds me of the Magic School Bus sh
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5 Ways to Get Your Kids to Do Their Homework
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Fall means school, and school means homework, and homework –- for many a family -– means stress and arguments. But getting homework done doesn’t have to be a daily battle. Here are a few easy