For years, school officials have used detention, remedial classes, summer school and suspensions to turn around poorly behaved, underachieving middle school students, with little results. Now they are introducing a program that will pay students up to $100 per month for displaying good behavior.
Bartering sex for stuff or services
Wednesday, August 27, 2008, 02:16 PM EST [General]
Body currency system
A recent study of 475 University of Michigan undergraduates ages 17 to 26 found that 27 percent of the men and 14 percent of the women who weren't in a committed relationship had offered someone favors or gifts -- help prepping for a test, laundry washing, tickets to a college football game -- in exchange for sex. On the flip side, 5 percent of the men surveyed and 9 percent of the women said they'd attempted to trade sex for such freebies.
School district will let teachers carry guns
Tuesday, August 26, 2008, 03:43 PM EST [General]
A tiny school district may be the first in the nation to allow teachers and staff to pack guns for protection when classes begin later this month, a newspaper reported.













