Questions tagged [school]
an institution for educating children.
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Does making the home environment boring reduce school refusal?
When looking into school refusal there is a common piece of advice to ensure the home environment is boring.
I've found the claim in these places
The article school refusal when a child wont go to ...
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Was a school teacher Warren Smith fired after posting a video talking with a student about J.K. Rowling and transphobia?
On Sky News Australia, in May 2024, there is a discussion about a school teacher named Warren Smith, who had a video on-line where he is seen discussing with a student about whether or not J.K. ...
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Do one in three public school students wear at least partial animal costumes at school?
This video from Not the Bee, a somewhat popular American right-wing news site, claims, (quoted from YouTube's transcript, with punctuation added for readability and emphasis added to show the claim I'...
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Did the ACLU prepare a lawsuit against The Young Women's Leadership School of East Harlem for gender discrimination?
The Young Women's Leadership School of East Harlem, formerly known as the The Young Women's Leadership Academy, is an all-girls charter school in Manhattan. The school's Wikipedia page contains an ...
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Did a Wisconsin school file sexual harassment complaints over pronoun usage?
The New York Post claims
A Wisconsin school district has filed sexual harassment complaints against three middle schoolers for calling a classmate by a wrong pronoun.
They cite fox17.com as source, ...
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Did a school or college in the United States ban backpacks after a shooting?
There's a story going around that an unnamed college in the United States banned backpacks after a shooting.
The lack of details is suspicious and it looks more like a wrongly-captioned prank at a ...
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Did some US schools implement a 'COVID Shuffle' to move students every 12-14 minutes to avoid registering contacts?
In September/October 2020, there were news stories that claimed that school administrators were trying to "game" the contact-tracing rules (which required registering 15 minutes close ...
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Did a US school test ask this question about norms in Chinese culture?
OpenDemocracy.net presents this as a question that has recently been asked of 12-year-old children in a US school:
It is described so:
A IS FOR ANTI-ASIAN
A worried Korean American woman recently ...
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What happenned at Ripon - Weston Elementary School [closed]
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Did the radio tower cause the cancer? - There is little evidence that radio towers in general cause cancer.
Tests reveal carcinogen (TCE) in tap water but carcinogen is 10x lower than ...
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Are American schools frequently short of essential textbooks?
Computer scientist and journalist Meredith Broussard recently wrote a skeptical perspective on the uses and benefits of computers called Artificial Unintelligence.
One of the stories she tells where ...
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Is this Singapore school letter about exams real?
This is doing the rounds on Facebook:
A school principal in Singapore sent this letter to the parents before the exams
Dear Parents
The exams of your children are to start soon. I know you are all ...
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Does abuse of 'study drugs' increase school performance or learning?
Study drugs, such as Adderall, are regularly abused in colleges due to the belief that they help with studying and/or learning. However this article suggests that the affect is primarily a placebo ...
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Were there armed guards at Columbine?
Ran across this editorial by Brandon Friedman in the NY Daily News:
Arming teachers in the classroom will cost kids' lives
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There were armed guards at Columbine, the Pulse nightclub and in ...
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Are violent video games a better explanation of school shootings than access to guns?
This site already has a question on the general relationship of video games and violence.
But the recent Florida school shooting has raised a more specific set of claims that deserve to be addressed.
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Were there 18 school shootings in the US from Jan 1 to Feb 14, 2018?
CBC Radio (Canada) reported earlier this evening that the Florida shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School "was the 18th school shooting in the U.S. since the beginning of 2018.".
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