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Texas Student Tells Teacher How to Do Her Job, And He's Right [VIDEO]

Kacy Collins — Thu, 09 May 2013 13:42:16 +0000

We all know something isn't working with the education system here in America. It may be the students or the teachers or maybe even the system as a whole. And finally someone was brave enough to stand up and tell a teacher what she needed to hear

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12 Signs Your School Bus Driver Is Losing His Mind

Danny Gallagher — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 15:34:21 +0000

There are a lot of high stress jobs out there and being a school bus driver must be one of them. They have to spend every day taking your kids to the last place they want to go and resist the urge to drive the bus into the heaviest object they can find to get them to behave.

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14 Things You Don't Want to Hear in the School Cafeteria

Danny Gallagher — Fri, 01 Jun 2012 15:47:06 +0000

School lunches were never something we looked forward to when we were younger.

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Principal Apologizes After Suspending Seniors for Riding Their Bikes to School

Shauna Wright — Fri, 25 May 2012 17:14:32 +0000

Nervous about past senior pranks involving vandalism and various other destructive behavior, a high school principal in Michigan swiftly issued one-day suspensions for dozens of seniors who rode their bikes to school en masse because she thought it was intentionally meant to disrupt the school day.

But after learning that simply wasn’t the case, she’s now issued an apology.

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Scores of Graduating High School Students Suspended After Harmless Senior Prank

Shauna Wright — Fri, 18 May 2012 19:43:21 +0000

A small group of seniors at Cascade High School in Clayton, IN celebrated their upcoming graduation with a prank, covering school doors, offices and windows with more than 12,000 colorful Post-It notes.

But the school superintendent apparently didn’t think it was so funny — he suspended almost 60 students, and a janitor accused of helping during the prank could lose her job.

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School Bans Kids from Using Acronyms When Signing Yearbooks

Shauna Wright — Wed, 16 May 2012 18:08:12 +0000

For the past few years, language purists have bemoaned the way “text speak” like LOL and OMG has wormed its way into written communication.

But according to parents, a Georgia elementary school went too far when it made students sign a pledge stating they wouldn’t use acronyms when signing each other’s yearbooks.

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Should Pizza Be Considered a Vegetable in School Lunches? Politician Says 'No Way' [VIDEO]

Don Deane — Wed, 16 May 2012 14:16:23 +0000

As a way to help promote healthy eating among children, US Rep. Jared Polis has introduced legislation which would redefine the Department of Agriculture’s classification of pizza as a vegetable in school lunches.

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Teacher's Aide Fired for Refusing to Let Employers Access Her Facebook Account

Shauna Wright — Tue, 03 Apr 2012 18:49:06 +0000

A few schools have made the news lately for over-policing students’ social media accounts.

Now it seems to be happening to employees, too, because a Michigan teacher’s aide claims she was fired for refusing to give her bosses access to her Facebook page.

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Reports: At Least Six Dead After Gunman Opens Fire at California's Oikos University [VIDEO]

Shauna Wright — Mon, 02 Apr 2012 21:00:09 +0000

Oikos University, a small Christian nursing school in Oakland, Calif., became the tragic locale for the nation’s latest school shooting on Monday when a gunman opened fire at about 10:30 a.m.

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School Forces Students to Delete Facebook Pages

Shauna Wright — Fri, 30 Mar 2012 18:30:54 +0000

Schools these days seem to have no compunctions about policing students’ use of social media. An Indiana teenager was recently expelled for swearing in a tweet, and now a Brooklyn, New York school is forcing its charges to delete their Facebook accounts — or face expulsion themselves.

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No Graduation for You! High School Senior Expelled After Swearing in a Tweet [VIDEO]

Shauna Wright — Thu, 29 Mar 2012 16:31:55 +0000

We may live in an era that many feel is dangerously approaching the Big Brother world depicted in the book ’1984,’ but after a high school student was expelled for using profanity in a tweet, lots of people cried foul.

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Mother Sues Teacher for Stealing Son's Lunch Money

Shauna Wright — Wed, 21 Mar 2012 17:22:56 +0000

When Baltimore mom Lynsai Green found out her second-grader had a negative balance with the school cafeteria, she was confused — until her son told her one of his teachers was routinely stealing his lunch money.

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Worst Case of Autocorrect Causes School-Wide Lockdown

Jeremy Taylor — Thu, 01 Mar 2012 20:37:02 +0000

It’s happened to everyone — you text your husband or wife, “I love you with every fiber of my being,” but your phone actually sends, “I love you with every fiber of malaysia.” Most of the time it’s funny, but one person experienced the worst case of autocorrect ever. So bad, in fact, that it prompted a school-wide lockdown.

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Ohio School Shooting Rattles Residents as Attacker Is Brought Into Custody

Shauna Wright — Mon, 27 Feb 2012 16:24:30 +0000

A shooting at an Ohio high school had local residents on lock-down for a short period on Monday morning.

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Who Is the 'Piggyback Bandit' and Why Is He Acting So Creepy at High School Sporting Events?

Kathy Landin — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 19:53:46 +0000

There is a short, 240-pound man who will show up at high school sporting events, do things on the sidelines to help the team, then talk someone into giving him a piggyback ride and leave. No, it’s not a joke.

He started this practice in 2008 on the West Coast, but continues it to this day and recently turned up in North Dakota.

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NJ Makes It Harder for Potential High School Dropouts to… Well, Drop Out

Jeremy Taylor — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 15:35:12 +0000

Sorry kids, but dropping out of high school in New Jersey may soon become more of a challenge.

As of now the Garden State requires that those between the ages of 6 and 16 attend school regularly, but a new bill being discussed in the state’s senate seeks to raise the mandatory age of high school attendance to 18.

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Pennsylvania Middle School Bans Ugg Boots [VIDEO]

Don Deane — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 16:01:45 +0000

Ugg boots may not seem like a contributing factor to bad behavior at school, but Pottstown Middle School in Pennsylvania claims they are a distraction and have banned the student body from wearing them.

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Twitter Helps Shy Students Take Part in Classroom Discussions Without Saying a Word

Shauna Wright — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 21:03:35 +0000

Twitter isn’t just a place for news or idle chatter. In fact, a new study reveals the microblogging service could be a powerful tool for educators, too.

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You Won't Believe What a Group of Parents Did to Get Better Schooling for Their Kids

Shauna Wright — Fri, 09 Dec 2011 17:10:18 +0000

Parents upset about the education their children are receiving at the Notre-Dame de Caderot school in southern France didn’t merely hold meetings or complain to the school board.

Instead, they stormed the building and took several teachers and the school headmistress hostage.

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Fourth-Grader Suspended for Sexual Harassment After Calling a Teacher 'Cute'

Shauna Wright — Mon, 05 Dec 2011 20:01:27 +0000

A 9-year-old North Carolina boy was suspended from school after saying a teacher was “cute” — a remark the school principal called sexual harassment.

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