"I said, 'Hi, I'm a guy from Canada. There is someone about to set fire to a school.' At that point I didn't know the name of the school or the guy. I gave the police the address of the thread," said Neufeld. tags attack school fire internetIn less than an hour, police made an arrest." Yes, the internet is great! picked by Nicky666 8 months ago |
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Tahoma High School is in lockdown after a student allegedly brought a loaded handgun to school Monday. picked by muppet 2 years ago 0 comments edit related share plime.com |
A call about a possible weapon at a middle school prompted police to put armed officers on rooftops, close nearby streets and lock down the school. All over a giant burrito. picked by deepchill 2 years ago 5 comments edit related share plime.com |
A four-foot alligator rescued in an abandoned school on fire in western Pennsylvania may have also started the blaze... the building's owner believes the alligator started the fire by knocking over a portable heater. picked by unstablefiend 9 months ago 1 comments edit related share weird |
A primary school has been accused of being alarmist for covering up the faces of pupils on its website – apparently to protect them from paedophiles. Bizarrely, the images have been altered with the type of smiley faces popular during the Acid House dance craze of the 1980s. The decision was taken at Cann Hall Primary School in Clacton, Essex. picked by AutumnLotus 2 years ago 16 comments edit related share plime.com |
After a show and tell gone bad, two second graders at an Indiana elementary school were suspended for bringing guns to school. One student brought a toy cap gun while the other brought a small, loaded hand gun. picked by suebe 9 months ago 4 comments edit related share world |
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These kids (in high school) completed this video of dueling it out with light sabers in the school halls for their final project. After it was made they got to show it to the whole school. 4 comments edit related share entertainmentIts pretty impressive if you ask me. acting - A video A+ picked by trushafty38 2 years ago |
A veteran bus driver who drove his out-of-control student passengers to the police station for a dressing down has attracted widespread praise. 2 comments edit related share plime.comPolice have called Westside Bus Company driver Graham King "brilliant", a school principal has commended him for his strict message to their students and the public registered support for him online in their hundreds. picked by AutumnLotus 9 months ago |
FRANKLIN, Ind. -- A First Amendment debate is raging at Franklin High School after an article in the school newspaper raised some eyebrows. picked by tchengrox 2 years ago 7 comments edit related share plime.com |
Superintendent said "The skirts the cheerleaders wear are very short, and very tight...You want to have students wear appropriate clothing during the educational period of the day, and then after school, wear the appropriate clothing for the event" 8 comments edit related share sportsSo it's apparently OK to wear sleazy school supplied uniforms at a game, but not in math class... picked by Moe 1 year ago |
The Toronto District School Board has approved an "operational model" for an Afrocentric school intended to help struggling black students in the city's education system. Critics say the decision smacks of segregation. picked by mitzuzake 2 years ago 0 comments edit related share plime.com |
A school has had to apologise after a confidential report was found that called pupils "away with the fairies" and said one mother was "quite rough". picked by TheStep 3 years ago 0 comments edit related share weird |
Lidia Schaefer was troubled by what she saw when she visited her native Ethiopia. She saw children walking 3 hours to school. The final straw came when a young girl was killed by a hyena. She started putting aside her tips and part of her salary, even selling her home and car to pay for a school for the children of Ethiopia. picked by 2manyusernames 5 months ago 2 comments edit related share world |
A woman left her three-year-old daughter at a central Queensland school to teach her a lesson after she was naughty. The girl, who cannot be named for legal reasons, was found wandering alone around Glenmore State School in Rockhampton's north just before 10am. picked by AutumnLotus 2 years ago 3 comments edit related share plime.com |
Estelle Manorek, 90, attended a day of classes at West Caldwell High School in West Caldwell, NJ. Manorek "grew up the child of Polish immigrants in Jersey City during the Depression" and never attended high school because she went to work at age 14 after her brother contracted polio. picked by suebe 9 months ago 0 comments edit related share world |
A total of 115 girls are pregnant at Chicago's Paul Robeson High School. The entire school only has about 800 girls, so that means that 1 out of every 8 girl is pregnant. picked by ruthstark 1 month ago 16 comments edit related share plime.com |
Does anyone really believe universal, publicly funded preschool will help improve high school test scores? Yet this is what the South Dakota Department of Education seems to be touting. Perhaps it is time to evaluate what is happening in our high schools instead of funding two or more years of public management of preschool-age children with the outside hope that their test scores and social lives... read full post picked by GKar975 3 years ago 1 comments edit related share plime.com |
Bartlett school officials said that was unacceptable, and sent him home. 11 comments edit related share politicsHis parents trimmed the boy's hair to what they said resembled a military cut. The next time Derby went to school, the principal had a faculty member shave the boy's head. *I'm so tired of people telling us what do and how to live!* picked by bornbad 6 months ago |
Update: Later reports said victim and shooter were both students. picked by tomphoolry 3 years ago 3 comments edit related share plime.com |
A masked police chief planning to surprise Michigan high school students in a forensic science class ended up sparking a brief lockdown. picked by proverb 2 months ago 1 comments edit related share plime.com |
Two Swedish boys, testing the flammability of newly purchased hand sanitizer gel, accidentally burned their school down. 3 comments edit related share plime.comOops. (Insert Sven and Ollie joke here.) picked by meggysue 2 months ago |