Safe Passage program hires protection hires for Chicago Public Schools as students cross gang boundaries No incidents of trouble reported on its first day today Parents are skeptic over whether the program will continue to protect kids By Associated Press… Read More ›
Elementary school
‘We don’t have kings in America’: Parents’ outrage forces elementary school to scrap policy requiring students to KNEEL before principal
By Snejana Farberov PUBLISHED: 15:13 EST, 22 August 2013 | UPDATED: 18:21 EST, 22 August 2013 Your highness: Calimesa Elementary School Principal Dana Carter had instituted a safety policy requiring students to kneel before him at various times… Read More ›
Our Japanese reporter’s encounter with American school lunch
4 days ago by Michelle Many people in Japan think that American school lunches are unhealthy. For the most part, they are right. When photos of the greasy fried foods and brown piles of slop that are served to students… Read More ›
School Confiscates Cupcakes Decorated with Toy Soldiers
Mar 7, 2013 By Todd Starnes A Michigan elementary school is defending its decision to confiscate a third-graders batch of homemade cupcakes because the birthday treats were decorated with plastic green Army soldiers. Casey Fountain told Fox News that the… Read More ›
MontCo school suspends 6-year-old for pretend gunshot
December 29, 2012 | 8:00 pm Matt Connolly Examiner Staff Writer The Washington Examiner A Montgomery County elementary school student was suspended for a pretend gunshot a week after Adam Lanza killed 20 children and six adults at Sandy… Read More ›
Kids face developmental difficulties
Friday, Dec. 7, 2012 Jiji Some 6.5 percent of Japanese elementary and junior high school students may have developmental disorders, an education ministry survey said Wednesday. The survey, conducted in February and March, was based on the evaluations of… Read More ›