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Greetings, fellow science enthusiasts, autodidactics, and other assorted folks who love to learn! Today, as we start the second quarter of 2023, I am proud to introduce the introduction of my very own on-line University! I call it: MitchellClass! Because my real name is Mitchell, and not...

At dinner recently we had a group of people talking about the difficulties they had getting into graduate school being 30 instead of moving from high school to college to graduate school. Now as two of the people who had been having difficulty were applying to writing programs, it might be...

I have a feeling there is more to this than reported.... More here http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/religion/4590870/Primary-school-receptionist-facing-sack-after-daughter-talks-about-Jesus-to-classmate.html

Yeah...sure...education not indoctrination .... http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/faith/article5526785.ece

A public high school principal told students that they had to attend Mass at a Catholic Church in order to receive their degree: http://www.koat.com/news/16425637/detail.html?rss=alb&psp=news

My son has been struggling in school. We thought he might have ADD since his older stepbrother does have ADD. The testing showed he was not an ADD candidate. The Doctor recommended we get additional testing here http://www.learningrx.com/default.htm which we did and the results were...

If it was submitted correctly, with signatures of X number of citizens and so on, then yes. That's the difference between living in a free country and not living in one. In a free country, government officials cannot high-handedly dismiss the preferences of the citizenry, no matter how stupid...

In the past few weeks, something occured to me that was quite weird. We had, as I'm sure you all did too, Assembly, where we would sit down in the hall infront of the headteacher on a monday and they'd give us the motivational anecdote and we'd sing a song or something. It was the latter that...

Wasn't sure where this should go, so I put it here. :) http://www.denverpost.com/ci_7015611

The mother thinks the school's violating her daughter's rights. Another Free Will stand against a dress code, I guess: http://www.thedenverchannel.com/education/13997343/detail.html

How about letting the many school accounting classes, which have to play with numbers anyway, get real world experience by "running the numbers" of their local school, and government budgets? This will help them learn how they both work, how much they cost, and where the money comes from. Can...

Apparently, dressing respectably is a violation of the school dress code: http://www.naplesnews.com/news/2007/aug/23/golden_gate_high_school_student_gets_school_suspen/

Yesterday my 11 year old daughter came home from school in Melbourne Australia telling me that her teacher told the class that bad words and negative thoughts directed at a bottle of water would make it taste bad while good thoughts and even positive messages on a sticker put on a bottle would...

Ok so I have an English assignment which states: Now I, in plain terms, suck at English. I have tried very hard and put a lot of effort into things in which I always get returned a 'C' [even when the teacher said "Quite Good" on my first draft, implying at least a B or greater if I fixed up...

I thought nothing could really, truly shock me anymore. Like most of us I think, I'd become jaded, used to seeing all kinds of outlandish, brutal, bazaar things on television, in the papers, on film. I have to say I was wrong. "A school in Denmark has come under fire for its annual...

Two weeks from now, there's going to be an hour-long presentation on my campus that will present the "scientific" possibility of a creator. I'm not expecting any ground-breaking arguments or even any new arguments that I haven't heard already. I'll be expecting the antrophic argument (which I'll...

In the (U.S.) city where I live, D.A.R.E. volunteers are setting up booths on sidewalks to distribute literature and collect donations. When a volunteer came up to me hawking the program, I replied that there were several studies that showed that their program had a very low success rate. He...

So much for a safe environment where children can learn. Elementary School Student Claims He Was Sexually Assaulted At School POSTED: 11:04 pm CST January 18, 2007 UPDATED: 7:39 am CST January 19, 2007 SAN ANTONIO -- The San Antonio Police Department and the San Antonio Independent School...

http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/tm_headline=no-santa-teacher-is-sacked-&method=full&objectid=18242422&siteid=66633-name_page.html Is there any justification to this at all?

From an AP article entitled School rejects free newspapers: I am reminded of the following quote: "Teach the young people how to think, not what to think" - Sidney Sugarman

I go to RIT, Rochester Institute of Technology, and on friday (the 13th), there is going to be a ghost hunter speaking. Apparantly this guy, Chris Moon, is going to talk about experiences, possibly show some equipment. It is being billed as "Technology and science meet the paranormal in Ghost...

I understand that Dylan Avery was rejected from/refused admittance to a film school. I was wondering which school that was, and what the exact details were. Thanks in advance for the replies :)

Link. Emphasis mine. Sounds like he's certainly learned how to talk like a pro. No doubt.

so on a happy note, since most of these threads are kinda depressing... Kitten is having one heck of a time in Grad school this summer. At first we were sad that she was going to have to go to school on Cape Cod all summer. Right... I went to visit. Right behind her house is a bike trail...

Now before I start this story, I want to make it clear to everyone that I go to a Catholic high school which of course a private organization. This means they can fire anyone for pretty much anything, which means there probably is'nt any legal action to to taken here. This does not mean there...

In another thread in this section http://www.internationalskeptics.com/forums/showthread.php?t=55171 we have been discussing the socialization benefits that schooling provides. However, many of the comments that have been brought forward have attested to bad experiences of school. So I...

See it via Youtube Smartass Delaware teens take a videocamera to local girls Catholic school and get them to sign a petition against women's sufferage. Schools are furious over the hijinks. I'll bet. Furious at being pwned so badly.

For those who enjoyed ACLU President Nadine Strossen's talk at TAM4 (Or those who weren't there) a "heads up". Ms. Strossen will be giving a keynote presentation at the Vermont Law School this Friday 16 March. It's part of a two day conference on women's rights. I believe her topic is titled...

Canadian Supreme court rules 8-0 in favour of Sikh student. The dagger is made of steel and called a "kirpan." Orthodox Sikhs are required to carry it at all times. I don't know if the Multani lawyer's argument is quite acceptable, but even so, in principle I don't think weapons in school can...

I have been skimming a few religious sites and I notice that so many feel that School Prayer is some kind of Magic Pill that will solve all our problems in school and life. What is their reasoning and why is prayer going to stop all the problems when all the religion in our world has yet to...