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Principal Got Rid of Security Guards and Then Something Unbelievable Happened

Emerald Catron — Thu, 02 May 2013 21:03:26 +0000

Where most people saw a “drop out factory” and “career killer,” Andrew Bott saw a school with potential.Â Bott was the sixth principal in seven years when he took the job at Orchard Gardens, a failing K-8 school in Roxbury, Massachusetts. He proceeded to eliminate the school’s security infrastructure and used the money to jumpstart [...]

Girl, 13, Suspended for Bringing Butter Knife to Cut Fruit at Lunch

Drew Weisholtz — Fri, 05 Apr 2013 17:59:29 +0000

A butter knife is causing some major controversy in Attleboro, Massachusetts. Yes, a butter knife. Morgan LaPlaume, a 13-year-old student at Wamsutta Middle School, has been suspended for bringing in a butter knife to help her cut fruit that she can’t eat whole because of her braces. Morgan was eating the fruit recently when the [...]

Deaf Child Prohibited From Signing His Own Name Because It Looks Like a Gun — Is It Fair? [VIDEO, POLL]

Amy Sciarretto — Wed, 29 Aug 2012 13:38:18 +0000

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? His father Brian said, “He’s deaf, and his name sign, they say, is a violation of their weapons policy.” [...]

Students Won't 'Like' This — Elementary School Threatens Expulsion If Kids Use Facebook

Shauna Wright — Thu, 17 May 2012 13:41:36 +0000

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.

Reading, Writing and…Spelling?

Pete Masse — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 17:45:03 +0000

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” [...]

Horrible Teacher Bully's Special Need Student

Erin Phillips — Thu, 17 Nov 2011 15:46:58 +0000

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. The student secretly films one of the teacher’s tirades, vindicating the student when even [...]

Prestigious Waldorf Private School Keeps Computers Away from Kids

Shauna Wright — Tue, 25 Oct 2011 14:12:03 +0000

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.

Returning Soldier Surprises Young Son at School [VIDEO]

Shauna Wright — Fri, 23 Sep 2011 02:09:16 +0000

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.

Crack Pipe For Show And Tell In Kindergarten?

Erin Phillips — Wed, 21 Sep 2011 18:48:17 +0000

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. “He was very excited when he got to school,” Superintendent [...]

British School Bans Students from Wearing Makeup

Shauna Wright — Sat, 17 Sep 2011 13:36:27 +0000

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.

Jet Powered School Bus Breaks 300 MPH

My 1035 FM — Fri, 16 Sep 2011 15:04:22 +0000

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

5 Ways to Get Your Kids to Do Their Homework

Paula Kashtan — Sun, 04 Sep 2011 13:09:35 +0000

MyTudut, Flickr 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 ways for parents to make the routine a little easier for kids. 1 Study Daily [...]

Jimmy Fallon's 'Do Not Read List' for This School Year [VIDEO]

Shauna Wright — Thu, 01 Sep 2011 15:53:42 +0000

School reading lists are typically laden with staid classics that no one really wants to read. But never mind all that. ‘Late Night’ host Jimmy Fallon presented his “Do Not Read List” for the 2011-2012 school year that sounds a lot more enticing. All the books are real, but judging by the titles and descriptions, [...]

5 Fun After School Activities That Keep Kids Learning

Stephen Lenz — Thu, 18 Aug 2011 12:00:06 +0000

A child’s day doesn’t end when the final school bell rings. In fact for many children it’s just beginning. Where to go for ideas? Oddly, pull from what your kids love most about school — and think outside the sandbox. From the physical, to the brain-challenging to the just plain fun, here are five after [...]

Back to School – 5 Tips for Kids Waiting at the Bus Stop

Chip Sandalwood — Fri, 12 Aug 2011 12:05:22 +0000

School is almost back in session, which means it’s time to start brushing up on tips for taking the bus. The school bus can be a great resource for time-strapped parents and independence-seeking children alike. But it also needs to be approached with safety and care.

Here are five tips to make your child’s bus ride the best it can be.

Facebook Can Cause Psychological Disorders and Other Issues in Teens

Jeremy Taylor — Tue, 09 Aug 2011 20:37:00 +0000

A new study suggests that using Facebook too much triggers the development of anti-social behavior in teenagers. To gauge the effect Facebook has on young people, Dr. Larry Rosen, a professor of psychology at California State University, gave computerized surveys to 1,000 adolescents, and also observed 300 teens in 15-minute study sessions. Rosen found that [...]