1. "Possessed" girl barred from school
(Religion/General)

...old epileptic girl has been banished from her school after having a fit during a school camp - after which teachers and pupils believed she was "devil-possessed". At the three-day camp in...

2. Stop missionary work in schools
(Religion/Enforced religion)

...ified themselves as being outside the predominant religion. "You go there to be taught. Now you get teachers preaching and praying. This should happen at home, not in the science class," s...

3. Faith-healing parents charged in death of infant son
(Religion/Enforced religion)

...tive Stephen Buckley said yesterday, reading from Herbert Schaible's statement. Herbert Schaible is a teacher at First Century Gospel Church, said his attorney, Bobby Hoof. "They believe in...

4. Public schools flout national laws on religious instruction
(Religion/Enforced religion)

...olicy on Religion in Education encompasses the following broad principles, and any school and principal or teacher ignoring or contravening these regulations, are guilty of contravening the National E...

5. Origin of the Specious: Race, lies and stereotypes in Rudolf Steiner’s anthroposophy
(Religion/General)

... That is partly why it is so alarming; it creeps in with “a spiritual smile”. And besides, the teachers had better be kind because – hey - they might come back as a “lower&rdqu...

6. On a wing and a prayer
(Religion/Enforced religion)

... leaders off to the hospitals of former colonisers to get decent medical treatment. So let's leave the teachers to do their jobs -- teach -- and spare them the distraction of daily incantations. ...

7. 'He said Satan told him to'
(Religion/General)

...ing on the gardeners. At one stage he threw the sword to the ground and his younger brother grabbed it. Teachers then took him to the principal's office. 'He was very calm when we arrest...

8. Put a Little Science in Your Life
(Science/General)

...improving science education. Recommendations have ranged from increasing the level of training for science teachers to curriculum reforms. But most of these studies (and their suggestions) avoid an ...

9. Teacher tortures, kills boy
(Religion/Enforced religion)

...tan, Pakistan - A blind seven-year-old student at an Islamic school in eastern Pakistan has died after his teacher punished him for not learning the Qu'ran, police said on Friday. Muhammad Atif ...

10. Russell T Davies: Return of the (tea) Time Lord
(Good news/Humour)

... "Nobody had the language then, in Swansea in the Seventies. Not even my parents, who were both Latin teachers. It's one of the great gay myths, the chucking out of the teenager." After...

11. Numerology : Your number's up
(SA Media watch/Nonsense alert)

...traditional healer. These experiences I left to the more adventurous members of our team. I was a township teacher for 16 years – I've had all the adventures I need in my lifetime. Picture ...

12. Sentenced to death: Afghan who dared to read about women's rights
(Religion/Enforced religion)

...presented the views of the prophet Mohamed. Mr Kambaksh, 23, distributed the tract to fellow students and teachers at Balkh University with the aim, he said, of provoking a debate on the matter. But ...

13. Three Little Pigs 'too offensive'
(Religion/Enforced religion)

...artners is responsible for the judging criteria against which the 70 independent judges, mostly practising teachers, comment. All the partners stick by the judging criteria," said a Becta spokesm...

14. The Moral Instinct
(Religion/General)

...a little girl for no reason (a moral principle). But when asked whether these actions would be O.K. if the teacher allowed them, most of the children said that wearing pajamas would now be fine but th...

15. Questions Delay Creationist Master's Degrees
(Religion/Evolution vs Creationism)

...tle most Americans know about science. The idea that the state might give its OK to a new program to train teachers to instruct children in creation science set off alarm bells and calls for the commi...

16. Confessions of a Former Iridologist
(Medicine/General)

... restructuring in the iris to reflect the condition of the tissues of the body. As my training went on, my teachers came across the sad fact that the iris and optic nerve have little influence on each...

17. Darwin and Hitler : Satan's dream team
(Religion/Atheism)

...happened if not for Darwin?!?  Did they teach that to you in school?  No!  (Because all the teachers are either stupid or liberal nutjobs ...most are stupid.) "Darwin's Deadly ...

18. Debunking 'The Secret'
(Paranormal/The Secret / What the Bleep)

...ted all have something to sell. According to the publisher, the book draws on "wisdom from modern-day teachers." These savvy self-promoters are put behind the literal podium as teachers, but...

19. US 'doomed' if creationist president elected say scientists
(Religion/Evolution vs Creationism)

... ousted the following year. "Science, Evolution and Creationism" targets the general public and teachers, and presents in simple terms the current scientific understanding of evolution and ...

20. Devolution
(Religion/Evolution vs Creationism)

...ucation is weighing new standards, drafted by supporters of intelligent design, that would encourage schoolteachers to challenge Darwinism. Senator Rick Santorum, a Pennsylvania Republican, has argued...

21. About Sceptic SA
(Static Content)

...ough active participation in the public debate, information on controversial claims to the media, schools, teachers and other similar institutions. · To organise and present an annual scientifi...