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What's in a can of beans?

snez — Tue, 21 Jan 2003 11:35:53 -0800

Children of the bean sing a catchy little ditty and have a theme park adventure. Something strange is going on at Edleston Primary School and I like it. Prepare for blastoff. (some links contain flash)

dejah420 — Mon, 13 May 2002 08:15:35 -0800

Mother jailed for girls' truancy A question for our British gang, is truancy such a problem in the UK now that this is really necessary? When I went to school in England, lo those mumblemumble years ago, I don't remember it being this bad. For the rest of the world, do you think truancy in your country would justify locking up the primary caregiver or is this punishing the wrong person? Can parents be held responsible for everything a child does? And better said, should they? When should we grant children the priviledges and penalties of their own autonomous actions?

m2bcubed — Mon, 01 Oct 2001 11:46:27 -0800

student sues school over poor results i could think of some of my teachers who sucked at the Univ! i wonder if any of our US schools (private high school or college/university) have been sued for poor teaching.

kramer_101 — Mon, 03 Sep 2001 04:52:30 -0800

Friends reunited helps people who went to school in UK catch up with school mates. Except most of them are in IT living in London!!

nico — Sun, 26 Nov 2000 16:50:48 -0800

UK row as kids are told to adopt incorrect but 'international' spelling A row has broken out in the UK as the organisation in charge of school examinations told pupils to drop traditional spelling of scientific words in favour of Americanised (wrong) ones.
Surely Sulphur comes from a Greek word which involves the letter phi (not fi) and is therefore the correct spelling...