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Eight-year-old Jaiden Haber was sent to the principal's office for wearing a shirt that said, "N the 'N' Word" and below that, "It's time!" The principal of the Amityville school told Jaden to change the shirt. The executive director of the Nassau chapter of the New...

Céline Dion is taking her son, Rene Charles, 7, on her world tour with her. That means he'll be missing around six months of school, which is the dream of every second-grader in the world. Of the classes he'll miss Céline says, “This kind of experience is about as good an education as you can...

Maybe you heard this story: An honor student at a Connecticut middle school got busted for buying Skittles on school grounds . He was stripped of his job as class president, banned from attending an honors student dinner, and suspended for three days, later communted to one day (maybe for good behavior...

In a move that has stunned the homeschooling movement, a California appeals court ruled this week that parents must send children between the ages of six and eighteen to full-time public or private school, or have them taught at home by a tutor with a state credential . This means that about 166,000...

Despite media reports, the principal of Camden-Rockport Middle School has clarified that the school did not ban farting in class . Good thing, because libertarians would have had a field day with that one. But it is kind of funny that the story spread faster than a noxious gas filling a room, even reaching...

What can I say? I'm a sucker for serious dedication to kids and a flair for showmanship. In an effort to boost grades and win better behavior from students, Principal Bob Vicari has basically made students offers they couldn't refuse: Improve, and I'll take one for the team. In his six years...

Sometimes I read the news and just get, well, depressed. The story about the teacher who was arrested in Sudan for allowing her class to name a teddy bear Mohammed was one of those stories that got me all irate and blue. I mean, what is the world coming to? Why, it's like religious fundamentalism...

I think people who use a computer for work and also view Internet porn should probably just invest in separate machines for both. Especially if their work is anywhere near a school, or children, or schoolchildren, or teachers, or an overhead projector. Case in point: An Arizona high school teacher, whose...

When I grew up, we routinely were in classes of about 30. I mean, I guess so; what kid counts the other kid in their class? I never did. But having a teacher for a mom, I'm pretty sure that my classes were typically around 30. So when my own kids went to private school and had classes of sometimes...

Tomorrow school bells will once again toll throughout the land. At least, they will where I live. For lots of you, school started a couple of weeks ago, or maybe last week, and I'm only partially blind to the fact that hey! there are other countries out there! and it's a whole different season...