When Cate Barrett brought a £1.49 jar of tikka masala sauce from her local Asda store, she was expecting it to contain a bit of a kick.

But what she wasn't expecting to find was the dead mouse which had somehow ended up in the jar - along with the rest of her favourite sauce. picked by AutumnLotus 5 months ago

Does anyone really believe universal, publicly funded preschool will help improve high school test scores? Yet this is what the South Dakota Department of Education seems to be touting. Perhaps it is time to evaluate what is happening in our high schools instead of funding two or more years of public management of preschool-age children with the outside hope that their test scores and social lives... read full post picked by GKar975 3 years ago

A high school football coach should have realized a player could collapse from heat stroke in the broiling weather during practice, a prosecutor said in announcing reckless homicide charges in a youth's death. A grand jury indicted David Jason Stinson on Thursday in the death of Max Gilpin, 15, a sophomore offensive lineman at Louisville's Pleasure Ridge Park High School. It was Stinson's first y... read full post picked by ftfd09 10 months ago

CNN commentator Jack Cafferty is mad. "Some parents still have this attitude that their kids are too special to be burdened by discipline. And the rest of us are supposed to put up with their little mutants. That attitude really pisses me off. I hate to break it to them, but the kids aren’t special, and I don’t have to put up with their behavior. If you can’t control your o... read full post picked by bingo 8 months ago

In a major defeat for social conservatives, a sharply divided State Board of Education voted Thursday to abandon a longtime state requirement that high school science teachers cover what some critics consider to be "weaknesses" in the theory of evolution. picked by Bornbad 10 months ago

Estelle Manorek, 90, attended a day of classes at West Caldwell High School in West Caldwell, NJ. Manorek "grew up the child of Polish immigrants in Jersey City during the Depression" and never attended high school because she went to work at age 14 after her brother contracted polio. picked by suebe 9 months ago

Update: Later reports said victim and shooter were both students. picked by tomphoolry 3 years ago

The student told deputies it didn't hurt, but the student "felt it was weird." picked by Bornbad 4 months ago

Almost half of female high school students are subjected to sexual comments or gestures, and one-third are touched, grabbed or pinched in a sexual way, says a new study from the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health. picked by chinook 2 years ago

"Envision EMI [charged] middle, high school and college students across the country [$2,500.00 each for] special access to the inauguration, parade and a black tie inaugural ball on Jan. 20."

"Instead all they saw was the inside of a bus or were dropped off near the Washington Monument to fend for themselves." picked by drogue 7 months ago

Students at a St. Louis high school go for HIV testing after an infected individual tells school officials they might have been exposed. picked by JoshSF49 1 year ago

A high school cheerleading squad is getting flak after parading religious banners at football games.

The Lakeview-Fort Oglethrope High School cheerleaders, of Georgia, have tried everything to get their team to win, including displaying football banners with such biblical verse as “commit to the lord” and “take charge of it, picked by suebe 2 months ago

Tahoma High School is in lockdown after a student allegedly brought a loaded handgun to school Monday. picked by muppet 2 years ago

Diddy made an appearance at a Philadelphia high school. He advised the students to 'work hard and stay in school'. picked by musicgirldani 3 years ago

A teaching assistant who gave her children cannabis was spared jail yesterday after a judge heard she did it to stop them visiting street dealers. picked by AutumnLotus 2 years ago

I'm glad they're having fun, but I'm confused about the selection of this band in the first place. picked by jameseum 3 years ago

The whole thing starts out like any other 1970s Spider-Man comic, read on for this entire 16-page lost masterwork picked by Bornbad 2 years ago

You know you're in a different kind of college when a teaching assistant sets five marijuana plants down in the middle of a lab and no one blinks a bloodshot eye.

Welcome to Oaksterdam University, a new trade school where "higher education" takes on a whole new meaning. picked by AutumnLotus 2 years ago

The lawsuit from a television producer that claims that ABC's Lost was created by him 32 years ago may sound ridiculous, but even if his claims are true, he's still ignored what makes the show the success it is. picked by Bornbad 4 months ago

Lawmakers in Ohio said on Wednesday they want to force convicted sex offenders to use a fluorescent-green license plate on their cars so they can be easily identified. picked by Neiako 3 years ago