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Sunday, March 4, 2007

Flight school - High school roundup

Published: Sunday, March 4, 2007 NEW HAVEN, Conn. -- Robert Hamlin, a junior at Mount Mansfield Union, defended his 160-pound title Saturday night at the annual New England high school wrestling championships.
The head of Hampton Roads Montessori School stood far from Newport News on Saturday: at the top of Africa's Mount Kilimanjaro.
Administrators at a high school where eight students died in a tornado were warned about severe weather nearly three hours before the twister struck, raising questions Friday about whether classes should have been dismissed earlier.
ENTERPRISE, Ala. -- In the science wing at Enterprise High School, students huddled in the protection of an interior hallway, joking around, thinking about how hungry they were and hoping they would...
This past week, the Lorain school board hired an administrator who had just retired on Jan. 1. For the next few months, until her new assignment is complete, this person will do the same work she did before, but now she will be paid $350 a day, plus draw a pension.
Oversize textbooks, rolling backpacks, subzero mountaineering parkas: The gear required to equip today's student is getting bigger. But the school locker, that shrine to adolescent personal space, is not.
A British school has launched a "theraplay" program in which difficult pupils are lovingly babied with kindness until they learn the social norms.
THIELLS - North Rockland High School teens have spent hours learning how to prepare taxes.