Posted By Robby Soave On 9:32 PM 12/08/2013 In | Yet more evidence that schools go to extreme lengths to punish children for even thinking about weapons: A 10-year-old Georgia boy was suspended for a day after he pretended to… Read More ›
Middle school
School suspends special needs student for drawing picture of cartoon bomb from favorite video game despite agreeing that teenager posed no threat to classmates
Rhett Parham, 13, got in trouble over sketch of favorite video game Mother claims South Carolina school was worried about what other parents would think By Jessica Jerreat PUBLISHED: 17:31 EST, 16 October 2013 | UPDATED: 18:09 EST, 16 October… Read More ›
Kentucky middle school student,14, faces up to 1 year in jail over NRA t-shirt
The 14-year-old student has no prior criminal record Insists he was only exercising his right to freedom of speech Logan Middle School, where the incident occurred, has a statue of a gun holding man out front By Daily Mail Reporter… 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 ›
Japanese porn star in workbook (school book) angers Indonesian parents
Indonesian authorities are investigating how a picture of a Japanese porn star came to be printed on a junior high school worksheet, media reports say. An English subject worksheet for third-year students at an Islamic school in East… Read More ›
50% of students lack basic math / National test results show 6th-graders struggle with decimals, ratios (Japan)
The Yomiuri Shimbun Nearly half of all sixth-grade primary school students do not understand multiplication and division with decimals, which is taught in the fifth grade or earlier, according to a study by the National Institute for Educational Policy Research… Read More ›