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 2 years ago

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+ picked by trushafty38 7 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 7 months ago

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 1 year ago

Tahoma High School is in lockdown after a student allegedly brought a loaded handgun to school Monday. picked by muppet 4 months ago

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... picked by Moe 2 weeks ago

Parents in Attleboro, Mass., are angry that a local elementary school has banned the children's game of tag from the playground. picked by robfouryqr 2 years ago

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 11 months ago

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 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 7 months ago

Scores of Indian children attending a school located in a graveyard were having recurring nightmares about ghosts and have appealed to authorities to shift them from the site. picked by AutumnLotus 1 year ago

Not too far from the site of the infamous Columbine school shooting, 6 students in a Colorado high school were held hostage at gunpoint. Motive still unclear as gunman committed suicide. As if kids need another reason to skip school. picked by ybne1else 2 years ago

Not for race, creed or color, but for hot or cold lunch. Some people just have to protest for the sake of hearing their own voices. picked by tomphoolry 2 years ago

Some parents are trying to have children in the autumn, so their children will be the oldest in their school year - because older kids do better, say statistics.
But if you're being raised by idiots like this, does age matter? picked by TheStep 10 months ago

A new research lab at the prestigious Parsons design school aims to develop video games with a conscience — called "serious games" — and study whether playing them can be a force for social good. picked by punthe 9 months ago

Ten grade 8 students were forced to remove their anti-homophobia T-Shirts after the school principal, deemed them to be offensive. saying the word “gay” was potentially offensive to homosexuals.
Hmm… Do you think the concept of context is taught in the school’s curriculum? picked by funkfrost 3 months ago

Principals try to describe exactly what Grinding is, after a letter went home to parents about stopping grinding, only 3 tickets were sold for the dance.
This is a funny article. picked by bobiton65 2 years ago

Update: Later reports said victim and shooter were both students. picked by tomphoolry 2 years ago

In an attempt to solve a promblem with schools, Edward Kennedy,D-Mass proposed to make school days longer. The arguement is, does more hours of school equal more hours of productivity in school or more frustrated students and teachers? picked by dork 1 year ago

Life is not fair. Get used to it. The average teenager uses the phrase "it's not fair" 8.6 times a day. You got it from your parents, who said it so often you decided they must be the most idealistic generation ever. When they started hearing it from their own kids, they realized Rule #1. picked by leopoldogolba 8 months ago