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Guardian: Catholic Students Earn Extra Credit

This is sick: Catholic high school students earned extra credit in a religion class forprotesting outside a Philadelphia abortion clinic.

Posted on 9th February 2002 Details

East Anglian Daily Times: Girl's pink hair replaced on school shot

A school in Ipswich has photoshopped a pupil’s bright pink hair out of the yearly class photograph andreplaced it with a mousey brown colour. So much effort for so little.

Posted on 23rd February 2002 Details

The Observer: US schools ban Darwin from class

Farewell Darwin: a recent survey has revealed that thedoctrine of creationismis spreading in the US at an alarming rate, attempting, and succeeding at, the elimination of evolutionary biology from the curriculum.

Posted on 24th February 2002 Details

Ananova: Biology teacher stopped from feeding puppies to snakes

Parents have complained after a US teacher planned tofeed 3 unwanted puppies to boa constrictorsfor a high school biology class. I suggest feeding the children with low grades to them instead.

Posted on 2nd March 2002 Details

ABC News: Schooled on Drugs

Experts in the US are urging parents toeducate themselveson the dangers of drugs so they can, in turn, educate their kids. After reading rubbish like‘If children are taking Ecstasy, for instance, they may start to clench their teeth a lot, and carry a baby pacifier or glow stick in their pocket.’I’d say there’s not much chance of that happening.

Posted on 26th March 2002 Details

BBC News: The weed and the web

A survey has shown 92% of workers in the IT industry haveused cannabis. More amusing is the fact that 22% in the teaching profession use it on a daily basis.

Posted on 1st August 2002 Details

NY Times: Nu Shortcuts in School R 2 Much 4 Teachers

Students are now usinginstant messaging shorthandin school essays. It had to happen. I’ve been seeing a similar development here where non-native English speakers who learnt a lot of the language online tend to use these expressions in offline English conversation.

Posted on 24th September 2002 Details

Sf Gate: Teachers sizzle over fast food fund-raiser

Teachers help their school bypromoting unhealthy eatingat McDonalds.

Posted on 16th October 2002 Details

All Africa: Boy Charged with Raping Classmates

This is insane: A 13-year-old boy in a South-African primary schoolraped a different 9-year-old classmate every day for a weekwhile forcing 5 other boys to hold these girls down for him.

Posted on 28th October 2002 Details

National Post: Grade 6 class taught to snort cocaine

I never got lessons onhow to snort cocainewhen I was at school.

Posted on 16th December 2002 Details

SunSpot: 12 UM students accused of high-tech cheating

Students cheat at an exam byusing web-enabled cellphonesto visit a site where a professor had already posted the answers in order to allow verification afterwards.

Posted on 26th January 2003 Details

Times: Government urges under-16s to experiment with oral sex

The UK government is encouraging under-16s toexperiment with oral sexin order to reduce teenage pregnancy rates.

Posted on 24th February 2003 Details

Sunday Herald: Teachers call for urgent action as pupils write essays in text-speak

Girl writes school essay inSMS format: My smmr hols wr CWOT. B4, we usd 2 go 2 NY 2C my bro, his GF & thr 3 :-@ kds FTF. ILNY, its gr8.

Posted on 3rd March 2003 Details

The Observer: The last resort

This sounds like a bad movie but, sadly, it is very real:Tranquility Bay, where parent send their teenagers when they have lost control over them. Very very scary…

Posted on 3rd July 2003 Details

Napa News: 4-H camp counselors accused of organizing fights between campers

The spirit of free enterprise goes amok: children at a summer camp getforced into fightingby counselors who then charge for admission and allow bets.

Posted on 10th July 2003 Details

Independent: At last, a college course for all: how to build Ikea furniture

A College in the UK is giving courses inIkea furniture assembly. Sign up now for my upcoming Kinder egg gadget assembly class.(thanks Oli)

Posted on 11th January 2004 Details

The American science teachers’ association has ref...

The American science teachers’ association has refused free copies of the film An inconvenient truth for classroom viewing as it may conflict with some of their financial supporters. One of them being Exxon.

update : and a well-deserved worst person in the world award.

Linked on 28th November 2006 Details

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