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The heavy weight battle: 'The Kid' vs 'The Bag'

March 17, 2013 - 1:36am

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TNP PHOTO: Gary Goh

After weighing his daughter's school bag and finding it to be heavier than a 5kg sack of rice, one astounded father wrote in to The Straits Times Forum page, lamenting that school bags were getting heavier despite technology.

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Boy, 7, told to eat lunch out of trash

February 7, 2013 - 3:33pm

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PHOTO: AFP

Ms Renee Medrano, mother of a 7-year-old boy, claimed her son was told to eat his lunch out of a garbage can after he'd thrown it away.

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School tells girl to get breast reduction after she gets bullied

January 25, 2013 - 4:50pm

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School tells girl to get breast reduction after she gets bullied

PHOTO: ST file photo

A mother of a 13-year-old is reportedly livid after her daughter was told by her school district to get a breast reduction in order to stop being bullied.

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MGS, ACS (I) to increase fees

September 12, 2012 - 3:45am

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Parents of Methodist Girls' School (MGS) students will need to pay higher school fees from next year - $335 a month. School fees are now about $295 a month.

This is due to a rise in operating costs, said MGS principal Shirleen Ong.

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Police called in to settle shouting match in school

July 26, 2012 - 1:44am

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TNP PHOTO: David Sun

Northland Secondary School had to call in the police to manage an angry student yesterday (July 25).

John (not his real name) was upset with how the discipline master had handled his friend, a Secondary 1 female student.

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Gnashing over swollen lip and missing tooth

May 25, 2012 - 12:23am

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PICTURES COURTESY OF QHAMEIRA ANI

Madam Qhameira Ani’s 10-year-old son, Muhammad Shari Fendy, had come home on May 14 with a swollen lip and an extracted tooth after seeing the school's dental therapist.

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Parents, why so kiasu?

March 3, 2012 - 10:21pm

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TNP PHOTO ILLUSTRATION: Jonathan Choo

Her son is a straight A student in a top boys’ school but one mother spends $5,800 a month on his tuition.

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Mum asks: Why didn't school send boy with broken fingers to hospital?

March 2, 2012 - 1:26am

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TNP PHOTO: Jonathan Choo

Irfand Danial Abdullah (above), 9, fractured three fingers after a fall at Greenridge Primary School field during recess on Monday.

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Students hit by diarrhoea at Bendemeer Secondary School

February 25, 2012 - 12:15am

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A total of 30 students from Bendemeer Secondary School were stricken with diarrhoea on Wednesday and Thursday.

The cause of the outbreak is under investigation.

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Geography may soon be history

February 7, 2012 - 11:42pm

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LOWER secondary students will soon have something to cheer about. If a proposal to scrap their semestral examinations for humanities subjects goes through, that is.

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