A shopping center in Nottingham, England is now the subject of ire by parents after a security guard in the arcade told their children to shut up while singing Christmas carols to entertain shoppers. The children's Christmas choir, comprised of 23 children aged three to five, were reduced to tears after security guards at the Nottingham's Exchange Arcade told them to shut up and stop singing carols because they were too noisy.

Stephen Murmer is a popular art teacher, with an unusual second job. Using an alias and disguises, Murmer is an artist that creates floral and abstract art with his butt and genitals. Paintings that can command a few hundred dollars per piece, have done little to quell the angst and disapproval of Murmer's school board officials.

A private school in Scotland is trying to save the dying art of penmanship by requiring that all its students write with fountain pens. The school's headmaster fears writing longhand will soon be a mere memory due to computers and text messaging, and he's doing what he can to keep it alive.

New Zealand's Qualifications Authority has okayed the use of "text-speak" - the mobile phone text message language - in national exams this year. The "text-speak" which has found its prevalence among most teenagers uses abbreviations such as "txt" for "text", "lol" for "laughing out loud" or "lots of love," and "CU" for "see you. " The authority said that although it strongly discourages students from using anything other than full English, but that credit will be given if the answer "clearly shows the required understanding," even if it contains text-speak.

Students at West Brunswick High School are being escorted to the restroom as a result of several fires started in the restrooms. Some students donned t-shirts with prison numbers on them and even teachers say they don't like treating their students like children but the school principal said the kids must learn responsibility.