2 weeks ago The Buena Vista School District hasn't held any classes since Tuesday, after the staff was let go Monday night due to lack of funds. There is now a ray of hope as the district is looking to the State of Michigan to step in.
March 4, 2013 Josh Welch is seven years old, and was slapped with a two day suspension from school after he accidentally shaped his Pop-Tart into a gun instead of the mountain he had intended.
January 9, 2013 Every night I sit down at my kitchen table with my five year old son and watch him do his Kindergarten homework. He is already reading and writing words that were considered second grade material when I was in school. The one thing that hasn't been even mentioned though is Cursive writing.
January 8, 2013 A 6 year old first grade boy was suspended from school after making a gun gesture with his hand and saying 'Pow'.
Huh!? The school is saying that this has been considered a threat, but take in mind, this is a child! How many times have you as a child played with toy guns and pretended to shoot your friends?
Most kids hate going to school, and that's a problem. School should be something that kids look forward to and learning shouldn't be viewed as a chore. The kids from Orr Elementary in D.C. took their love for learning and made it into a rap song with 'Our School is Awesome.'
August 29, 2012 A three year old deaf boy named Hunter is being forced to change the sign for his name because his school thinks it looks too much like a gun.
The Nebraska school says that Hunter signing his name, "Violates the schools anti-violence policy".
August 27, 2012 Sending kids to school can be a taxing time, both financially and emotionally, but most parents are looking forward to it.
Researchers found that 74% of parents are desperate to get their kids back to school and by the end of the summer they are running out of money to do things so their kids don't get bored.
August 16, 2012 Lamarr Woodley has never forgotten where he came from, and is probably one of Saginaw's best representatives.
He showed that again this week as he donated $60,000 to the Saginaw school system to wipe out the new 'pay to play' policy.
August 16, 2012 It's time to face the facts that the new school year is only a few weeks away and if you haven't already done some shopping you had better get on the ball. But what to buy? That question is answered very differently by parents and kids.
New York schoolkids decided it'd be fun to bully their bus monitor to the point where she cried. This disturbing video of middle schoolers bullying their bus monitor went viral, and is NSFW.
April 26, 2012 New Jersey dad Stuart Chaifetz was confused when reports that his Autistic son Akian, had become violent in his school. In an effort to find out what exactly was going on he hid an audio recorder on his son and sent him to school.
Shockingly, he discovered that a teacher and a teacher’s aide were verbally abusing learning-disabled children at Horace Mann Elementary School in the town of Cherry Hill.
