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Archived violence and related stories in the mediaSchools demand 'biblical right to smack children'. Private Christian schools in the UK must be allowed to smack pupils with parents' consent, the Court of Appeal has heard. Forty schools, spearheaded by the Christian Fellowship School in Liverpool, want a change in the law to allow them to use corporal punishment. Their attempt to challenge legislation banning smacking in schools by claiming it did not apply to independents was rejected by the High Court last year ...More from AnanovaNSPCC launches campaign to stop parents from smacking toddlers. One of the billboard posters appearing at 2,000 sites in England, Wales and Ulster "shows a little boy bullying a schoolmate," says The Sun. "Its caption reads: Unfortunately, hitting your children does teach them a lesson." But in The Scotsman, The Christian Institute warns that the legal ban on smacking north of the border "would soak up vital police resources on trivial cases" ...More from What The Papers Say
Risk posed by aggressive pupils.
UK teachers demand schools carry out "risk assessments" of pupils with behavioural problems, to protect other pupils and staff.
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Child soldiers to swap guns for PCs.
Child soldiers in Sierra Leone are to be offered the chance to hand in their guns for computers. A Sierra Leonean entrepreneur, Francis Steven George, is planning to set up a vocational training centre to teach computer and programming skills to the former rebels
...More from the BBC | Visit BBC America Shop New justice system guide for UK schools. Judges have launched a guide aimed at explaining the justice system to schoolchildren. The Lord Chancellor's Department aims to increase the number of educational court trips. The plan is to make pupils understand how justice works for criminals, victims and witnesses ...More from Ananova
Special orders curbing pupils.
Schools are finding that the threat of special orders intended for aggressive adults can work in taming unruly pupils
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'Majority' oppose smacking plan.
Most parents in Scotland are opposed to plans to ban the smacking of toddlers, a survey suggests
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Officials eye high-tech school bus tracking.
Authorities recently spent hours searching for a school bus that disappeared from its route in Pennsylvania. Frightened parents gathered to wait for word on their children, but the search turned up nothing
...More from USA Today | Click here to get 33% off USA Today "UK schools must expel bullies." A crackdown on violence and yob culture in schools will be launched by ministers next week in an admission that the Government’s softly-softly approach has failed ...More from the Times Keeping a Who's-Naughty List. London police unveil a database program to track misbehaving children, ostensibly to head off future criminal behavior. Critics call it "profiling gone mad" ...More from Wired News
Liberia's president brandishes the rod.
President Charles Taylor of Liberia administers 10 lashes to his daughter in front of her classmates to deter improper behaviour.
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Smacking still legal, parents told.
Health Minister Jacqui Smith defends the government's decision not to outlaw the smacking of children in England and Wales
...More from the BBC | Visit BBC America Shop Bible gives schools right to smack, court told. A group of teachers and parents are launching a High Court battle for the right to smack pupils. They say that corporal punishment is part of the Christian doctrine. And they argue their human rights are being breached by not being able to practise their religion ...More from Ananova Explaining death and suffering to children. In the days following the terror attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, even very young children asked questions like, "Why does God allow so much suffering in the world? Why does he allow poverty, war, and evil? Is God powerless? Is the devil stronger than God?" Although such thoughts may never even occur to some children, they will cause considerable worry to others ...More from ed-u.com - Internal Article Scotland bans smacking youngsters. There has been a mixed reaction by children's charities to a decision by the Scottish Executive to ban parents from smacking youngsters below the age of three. They said the new Scottish Executive proposals were "unworkable" and "do not go far enough" to stamp out physical violence against children ...More from ITN Church teaches how to 'correct' babies. A Canadian church is under investigation after launching a guide to beating children who are naughty. The parenting guide belonging to the Church of God, in Aylmer, says babies as young as six months old can be punished ...More from Ananova Hundreds hurt during annual stone-throwing festival. Thousands of Indian villagers have celebrated an annual festival by throwing stones at each other. Nearly 250 people were injured during the Pashann Pud stone-throwing event near Nainital in Uttar Pradesh. Doctors report mainly head and eye injuries ...More from Ananova
Fears 'keep children indoors'
UK children are becoming "couch prisoners", as the fear of being bullied or knocked over by a car stops them playing outside, charities warn
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London gang leaders turn on violence.
Former gang leaders who carry scars from their violent playground battles are being used to try to deter other children from violence. They are promoting a new anti-violence course which has been piloted at three schools in the London borough of Tower Hamlets over the past year. The scheme, called simply the Non-Violence Project, is now being made available to schools across Britain
...More from the BBC | Visit BBC America Shop Two boys, a paper gun and a heap of trouble. When 8-year-old Hamadi Alston pointed a paper gun at his classmates and announced, "I'm going to kill you all," he said he was only playing cops and robbers. But his words launched him and a classmate on a grim trip through the juvenile justice system ...More from the Washington Post
Pupil, 5, expelled after attack.
Teachers in Wales have condemned violence against colleagues after a five-year-old boy was banned from school for punching a care worker. The boy who sparked the incident in Cardiff is thought to be one of the youngest to be excluded in this way
...More from the BBC | Visit BBC America Shop Stranger than fiction. When a Canadian schoolboy was jailed after reading out his violent story in class, the country's best-known authors rallied to his defence. But with rumours of bullying and death threats surfacing, could there be more to this saga... More from the Financial Times Will the Hatemongers Survive?. Extremist groups are distancing themselves from violent acts by utilizing a strategy in which individuals are encouraged to do their dirty work for them. The Internet's role in this mess looms large... More from Wired News Tony Blair says crime and education will be priorities for the next Labour term. "At least four UK government policy papers on education, crime, the high-tech revolution and culture will be published over the next few weeks," says The Times, reporting on a cabinet meeting in which Mr Blair set out his plan to counter flak from the Mandelson affair... More from What The Papers Say Once in school, they'll learn to hate each other. In theory, prejudice has no place in the classroom. In practice, according to a new UK study, that is precisely where it breeds... More from the Guardian Judge Upholds Video Game Ban. A federal judge backs an Indianapolis ordinance banning kids from playing violent video games without parental consent. More from Wired News Media Violence in the Hot Seat. Democrat and Republican lawmakers join in excoriating the entertainment industry for peddling violence to children... More from Wired News
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