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School Backs Free Condoms for Kids 12 and Up

Massachusetts measure would include counseling

(Newser) - In a 5-1 preliminary vote, a school committee for a Massachusetts town has approved providing free condoms to students ages 12 and older. The service, which requires a second vote for final approval, would provide the condoms through Springfield school nurses and clinics. Those given the contraceptives would receive counseling...

Teacher Sued for Ordering Girl to Pee in Bucket

Student, 14, says it was done to shame her

(Newser) - A 14-year-old San Diego girl has filed a $25,000 lawsuit against a teacher she says ordered her to pee in a bucket within earshot of her classmates. The alleged incident occurred Feb. 22, when the student asked to be excused to use the bathroom. She says teacher Gonja Wolf...

Mom Packs Books, Lunch, Pistol for 6-Year-Old

Retired detective leaves gun in school bag

(Newser) - One 6-year-old girl surprised her classmates at a New York school this week by opening her bag and brandishing a .25-caliber handgun—left courtesy of her mom, a retired NYPD detective. "No one was hurt—but maybe she don't know it's a real gun and bang, bang,...

School Takes Roll With Fingerprint Scans

Scanners to be installed on buses, too

(Newser) - Roll-calls are so 20th century. A cutting-edge Florida district is scanning students' fingerprints as a way of taking attendance, Popular Science reports. And the schools are getting even more careful: While the scanning systems are currently in school buildings, some will soon be moved to buses, allowing the district to...

Parents Should Send Kids to 'Wrong School'

WSJ writer agast at schools that follow children home

(Newser) - Sending your child to a better school outside your district is a worthy act of civil disobedience—especially if you're a disenfranchised minority parent, argues Michael Flaherty in the Wall Street Journal . Exasperated parents "whose children are zoned into failing public schools" have even started a mini-crime wave...

Tampa Police: We Stopped School Massacre

Teen Jared Cano accused of plotting to bomb school next week

(Newser) - Authorities in Tampa say they busted up a teen's Columbine-level plot to attack his former high school, reports the St. Petersburg Times . Police arrested a 17-year-old expelled student who had a cache of bomb-making materials at his home and a journal detailing his plans to bomb Freedom High School...

Education and Technology: Kids on Facebook Get Worse Grades
 Kids on Facebook 
 Get Worse Grades 
study says
Aug 8, 2011 3:31 PM CDT

Kids on Facebook Get Worse Grades

But the social network has its benefits

(Newser) - Brace yourselves, parents: a flood of new research shows the damaging effects Facebook can have on kids. Middle school through college-age youths who checked the site at least once within a 15-minute study bloc received poorer marks, researchers found. Meanwhile, teens on Facebook appear to be more narcissistic, and kids...

Thanks to Facebook, Kids Don't Have to Swim to Class

Children would swim a mile in chest-high water to school in Philipine village

(Newser) - Dozens of dirt-poor children in a Philippine mangrove village no longer have to swim to school, straining to hold their books above the water. And it’s thanks to money raised through Facebook to provide boats to the southern Philippines community. The children used to arrive to class with their...

Boy, 8, Sells Gun to Classmate for $3

Third-grade buyer showed off weapon to mother

(Newser) - This story could have had a much unhappier ending: An 8-year-old arrived at his New York City school yesterday with a loaded handgun and sold it to a third-grader for $3. The buyer took it home to show his mother; furious, she told school officials, who reported it to police....

School Bans Lunches Packed at Home

Chicago principal wants healthier eating; some kids grossed out

(Newser) - The healthiness of school lunches is quite the hot topic these days, and the Chicago Tribune takes a timely look at a public school that, aiming for better student nutrition, banned lunches brought from home. Six years ago. And many parents and kids are still voicing their outrage. “Who...

Teen Outs School Staffer's Porn Past, Gets Suspended

The 14-year-old created racy Facebook page

(Newser) - A teenage boy got a secretary at his Quebec City high school suspended after discovering, and revealing, that she worked as a porn star—and now the boy has also been suspended for outing her. The 14-year-old spotted Samantha Ardente, as she goes by in the porn world, in the...

Teacher Fights for Job After Quip About Deadly Field Trip

It was a frustrating day, says teacher

(Newser) - A Brooklyn teacher is fighting for her job after a callous quip about a beach field trip that resulted in the drowning death of a student. "After today, I'm thinking the beach is a good trip for my class," teacher Christine Rubino commented on her cell phone, apparently...

Detroit to Close Half Its Schools

Michigan approves plan to cut $327M deficit

(Newser) - Michigan has approved a plan to close roughly half of Detroit’s public schools, pushing the average high-school class size in the struggling city to roughly 60 students, the Wall Street Journal reports. The plan is designed to eliminate the district’s $327 million deficit, but even its creator, district...

Mom Jailed for Sending Kids to Safer Schools

Kelley Williams-Bolar convicted of felony for falsifying records

(Newser) - Kelley Williams-Bolar tried to send her two daughters to safer schools—and in doing so, she found herself convicted of a felony and sent to prison for 10 days. Williams-Bolar lives in Akron, Ohio, but wanted to send her children to the schools in Copley Township, where her father lives,...

School Sends Pre-Dawn Robocall, Dad Returns Favor

After getting one at 4:30am, Maryland man exacts revenge

(Newser) - After waking to a 4:30am robocall announcing a snow delay, a Maryland dad was fuming—so he decided to make a robocall of his own. The father of five found an online robocalling company and recorded a message to be sent at 4:30am yesterday to school officials, the...

Sex Offenders Able to Land Jobs at Schools
Sex Offenders Able to
Land Jobs at Schools
new report
Dec 17, 2010 7:27 AM CST

Sex Offenders Able to Land Jobs at Schools

Criminals slip by background checks

(Newser) - A number of people with histories of sexual misconduct have had little trouble getting new jobs in schools, despite a system of background checks intended to prevent exactly that, the Government Accountability Office reported yesterday. In 11 of the 15 cases federal investigators looked into, people who had previously targeted...

Dozens of Chinese Kids Injured in Recess Stampede

Children tumble down stairs, others rush over them

(Newser) - Dozens of elementary schoolkids were injured in western China when classes stampeded to a playground at recess. Students were racing down a stairwell at the school in Aksu city when some of them fell and the rest rushed over them to get outside, officials told AP . No deaths were reported...

Teacher Wins $225K After Losing Voice

Vocal chords damaged after working in noisy classroom

(Newser) - A British teacher ruined her voice while struggling to make herself heard in a noisy classroom—and has been awarded $225,000 in compensation. Joyce Walters developed nodules on her vocal chords and had to give up teaching after working in an adult education center that placed her in a...

Principal: Possum Toss Contest 'Lets Kids Be Kids'
Principal: Possum Toss Contest 'Lets Kids Be Kids'
critics agog in new zealand
Sep 23, 2010 2:50 AM CDT

Principal: Possum Toss Contest 'Lets Kids Be Kids'

Animal activists furious after children hurl animal carcasses

(Newser) - Animal lovers are snarling after a New Zealand elementary school event featured children hurling possum carcasses. But the school principal insists the bizarre contest "lets kids be kids." Students in the rural Manawatu school lobbed the dead animals by their tails to see how far they could throw...

'Warning Shot' Kills Teen Protester in South Africa

Students were protesting final exams

(Newser) - A warning shot fired by South African police ricocheted and killed a 17-year-old female student who was among a group protesting that a recent teachers strike had given them insufficient time to prepare for exams, an investigator said today. Students marching in the Free State region allegedly threw stones at...

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