Oprah opens school in South Africa Posted: 3 years ago by LatueOfStiberty
US talk show queen Oprah Winfrey has opened a $US40 million school for disadvantaged South African girls
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Dallas ISD records show school held 'cage fights' Posted: 9 months ago by AutumnLotus
The principal and other staff members at South Oak Cliff High School were supposed to be breaking up fights. Instead, they sent troubled students into a steel utility cage in an athletic locker room to battle it out with bare fists and no head protection, records show.
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Nuclear Facility in South Africa attacked Posted: 2 years ago by 2manyusernames
Nuclear Facility in South Africa attacked. Four armed men broke into the control room of the Pelindaba Nuclear Research Center, shooting "a senior emergency officer" in the process. The government nuclear agency Necsa insisted the paper not run this story.
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South Africa deny part in Plot. Posted: 2 years ago by thenegativeone
South Africa has rejected "with contempt" claims by jailed British mercenary Simon Mann that it backed his plot to overthrow the government of Equatorial Guinea.
Background here
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2nd Grade Kids Bring Guns to School for Show 'n Tell Posted: 9 months ago by suebe
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.
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Manicurist Sells House/Car To Purchase School Posted: 6 months ago by 2manyusernames
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.
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115 Pregnant Girls at Chicago High School Posted: 1 month ago by ruthstark
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.
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Catholic school opens gates to Hell boy Posted: 2 years ago by AutumnLotus
The Hell family says it may tell a Catholic school in Australia where to go after it objected to enrolling their son because of his name.
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Penguin turns up in South Africa Posted: 3 years ago by AutumnLotus
Animal rehabilitation officials are trying to find a home for a king penguin that turned up in Cape St. Francis, South Africa.
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Priority Should Be On High School, Not Preschool Posted: 3 years ago by GKar975
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 at age 16 will be enhanced.
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Im always a sucker for a good lightsaber battle Posted: 2 years ago by trushafty38
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.
Its pretty impressive if you ask me.
acting - A video A+
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Blago's senatorial choice? Why Oprah of course. Posted: 10 months ago by equinox
Illinois' beleaguered Gov. Rod Blagojevich said today on Good Morning America that when he was deciding who would take President Obama's Senate seat he considered appointing talk show queen Oprah Winfrey, a suggestion that Winfrey says left her "amused." "If I had been watching," she added, "I would have fallen off the treadmill."
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School apologises for insulting report Posted: 3 years ago by TheStep
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".
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Toronto trustees approve Afrocentric school Posted: 2 years ago by mitzuzake
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.
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Student with gun puts Tacoma high school in lockdown Posted: 2 years ago by muppet
Tahoma High School is in lockdown after a student allegedly brought a loaded handgun to school Monday.
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Confederate flag causes flap at Marysville school Posted: 11 months ago by muppet
At least three students were suspended from Marysville-Pilchuck High School after displaying the Confederate flag. The students say the flag is a symbol of culture and heritage, but the school district says it's also a symbol of hatred.
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As if having sex with teachers isn't enough, now kids will get paid to go to school Posted: 2 years ago by SoothSayer
South Dakota is involved in a pilot program that will bribe high school students to pass Advanced Placement tests.
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Ohio high school rules their own cheerleader outifts violate dress code Posted: 1 year ago by Moe
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"
So it's apparently OK to wear sleazy school supplied uniforms at a game, but not in math class...
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Child, Dropped Off At School, Hit By Mother Posted: 2 years ago by dollyllama
A child was seriously injured Wednesday when he ran in front of his mother's car after he was dropped off at school, South Carolina Highway Patrol troopers said.
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NJ Woman Gets Her High School Diploma At Age 90 Posted: 9 months ago by suebe
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.
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Montreal student sounds alert over planned U.K. school attack Posted: 8 months ago by Nicky666
"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.
In less than an hour, police made an arrest."
Yes, the internet is great!
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