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Cold season is in full swing. Try as we might, all that hand washing only goes so far at school and work. Healthy eating and smart prevention will make a big difference with cold season. But viruses will always be ...

Schools throughout North America are banning cartwheels and even balls as threats to children’s safety. “The activity can cause concussions, and neck and wrist injuries,” Principal Todd Gribbon told The North Bay Nugget, referencing cartwheels. New playground rules at M.T. ...

Just “liking” a picture of a gun on social media can get a student suspended from school in New Jersey. Zachary Bowlin discovered this the hard way when he was suspended from Edgewood Middle School for 10 days because he ...

It apparently is going to take a change in state law to give kids the right to use sunscreen at schools in Washington state Senate Bill (SB) 5404 would allow children to possess and use over-the-counter sunscreen on school property, ...

Eight police officers surrounded a couple’s home and took their seven-year-old son away because of a disagreement with school officials over ADHD and mental health, the parents say. Christian and Katie Maple lost custody of seven-year-old Camden because they disagreed ...

FOLSOM, Calif. — Tag, touch football and any sort of physical contact are now prohibited at California’s Gold Ridge Elementary School. Principal David Frankel banned such activities to protect children from getting hurt. “Today we implemented new procedures at school ...

SUMMERVILLE, S.C. — Some parents of middle school students in a South Carolina school are upset with a social studies curriculum that requires sixth-graders to learn the Five Pillars of Islam and affirm that Islam “is a religion of peace.” ...

ANDERSON, S.C. — A high school student was charged with assault and battery for throwing a paper airplane in class. If he is convicted of the charge, David Michael Elliott, 17, could be sentenced to 30 days in jail. Elliott ...

FREDERICK, Md. — A school employee in Maryland apparently was fired after correcting a student’s spelling on Twitter. Katie Nash lost her job as “web experience coordinator” at the Frederick County Public Schools after telling a student how to spell ...

KILLEEN, Texas – A Texas state judge has ordered a school district to allow a Charlie Brown Christmas poster be put back up, days after the district affirmed the principal who ordered it taken down. Charles E. Patterson Middle School ...