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Tucker Carlson claimed that he was banned from speaking at his prep school Alma Mater because administration thought he was 'too dangerous' and that 'people could be killed.' Video of Carlson talking to a group of students from St. George's School on Zoom was posted on X, as he told them about the lengthy ordeal he had to go through in order to speak to them. Carlson attended the boarding school in Middletown, Rhode Island as a teenager, sent his three children there and even got married on campus to his wife Susan Andrews, who also attended the school.

Decades after dozens of missionary kids suffered physical and sexual abuse at the Christian Academy of Japan (CAJ), mission agency leaders associated with the Tokyo school fell prostrate on the ground to perform dogeza, Japan’s deepest form of apology. The 13 leaders met with victims at a private retreat in Colorado last fall to hear their stories and offer a formal apology. “On their knees, heads on their hands, sobbing,” recalled Janet Oates, a 1963 alum of the academy, which was founded in 1950 as a boarding school for missionary children. “Alumni were sobbing too … one moment of justice.”...

Kentucky State Police responded to a first-degree criminal abuse complaint Oct. 24 at the Pilgrims Rest Ministry of Reconciliation, an Ohio County boys boarding school affiliated with the fundamentalist Baptist faith. Details of the incident are unclear. Both KSP and the state’s Department for Community Based Services (DCBS) have declined to provide information about the case — citing an ongoing investigation into the facility. “Premature disclosure of records generated in the course of this active investigation of alleged physical and sexual abuse of juveniles, at this early stage, would do irreparable harm to the investigation,” said KSP’s official custodian of...

A California mom arranged for her estranged son to be abducted after he applied for emancipation, with the youngster then driven 27 hours to a boarding school. Shana Gaviola, 35, is said to have embarked on the scheme in August 2021 on learning the unnamed 17 year-old boy wanted to legally break away from her. Gaviola, of Fresno, has been charged with violating a protective over the incident by a federal court, and remains in custody. The boy, who had successfully applied for a restraining order against Gaviola, was approached by a 'transfer team' from the Agapé Boarding School for...

When the owners of the Circle of Hope boarding school in Humansville, Missouri, were arrested last year on more than 100 combined charges of child abuse and neglect, authorities pointed to an unlikely whistleblower: their 31-year-old daughter, Amanda Householder. In a new lawsuit filed in Polk County Court, Householder alleges that her parents, Boyd and Stephanie Householder, routinely abused her and her younger brother, beating them with golf clubs and a leather whip and force-feeding them until they vomited. She also alleges the couple abused the teenage girls entrusted to their care at Circle of Hope and forced her to...

<p>STOCKTON, Mo. (AP) — A Christian boarding school in southwest Missouri has been sued three times this month over allegations that students were abused.</p><p>The latest of the lawsuits was filed Tuesday in Cedar County Circuit Court on behalf of a Texas teen with autism and bipolar disorder. It accuses Agape Baptist Church, which operates Agape Boarding School, of negligence, infliction of emotional distress and battery by staff and other students, The Kansas City Star reports.</p>

Two teenage girls from a Milwaukee, Wisconsin, school live streamed sex acts with a teenage boy while their classmates watched through Facebook Live at school, authorities said. Milwaukee Police have asked Facebook to hand over information from the account of a 14-year-old girl after saying two juvenile girls in the video could be charged with 'exposing a child to harmful material'. The 15-year-old boy was not listed as a suspect on the police warrant. An investigation into the incident was prompted in January after staff at Barack Obama School - which houses students in grades kindergarten through 12th - became...

Anyone who has been to military high school or sent a child to one, I'd like your opinion/thoughts. My son will be entering his junior year in high school this fall. He has not fared well at all at the local public high school. Grades are bad, and he has not been able to make any friends much to speak of. He is a good kid, never a problem for us. He has always wanted to make a career out of the military, in particular would love to go to the AF academy, or take some path where he could...

A kitchen worker at an exclusive English boarding school has been arrested for trying to poison a batch of soup being prepared for students, administrators said on Wednesday. The director of the Stowe School in Buckingham 120km northwest of London said a household cleaning agent was put into the carrot and coriander soup, but no one was harmed because the soup wasn't served to students. Kitchen staff became suspicious of the soup because of an acrid smell, head teacher Anthony Wallersteiner said. "Before any meal is taken up from the kitchens to be served the food is tested, and it...

HUNDREDS of parents pay more than $28,000 a year to send their children to boarding school in the city - although some live within walking distance of the college gates. More than half of the boarders at prestigious St Joseph's College in Hunters Hill are from families living in Sydney, the Daily Telegraph reports. Parents' busy lives, the long school day and arduous bus and train rides across Sydney were cited as major reasons for the trend. .....His choice ... Ian Town and wife Stella Reuter with their son Patrick who is a boarder at St Josephs College Hunters Hill...

BOYOLALI (Indonesia) - For the skullcapped students of the Darusy Syahadah Islamic school, there is no question that the three radical jihadis behind the 2002 bombings on Indonesia's Bali island are heroes. Sheltering from the equatorial sun on the steps of the school's mosque, the students crowd to offer their approval of bombers Amrozi, Mukhlas and Imam Samudra. Authorities said this week the three bombers will face the firing squad by early November for their role in the attack, which killed 202 people. 'They're holy warriors, that's how I respond, they're holy warriors,' said Sir Muhammad Royhan Syihabuddin Ar-Rohmi, a...

An Al Qaeda terror training video has been seized during a police raid on an Islamic school in southern Thailand. Almost 700 people have been killed in the region during a 16-month-long insurgency blamed on Muslim separatists. Acting on a tip-off, the security forces staged the raid on several Islamic boarding schools in southern Thailand's Pattani province believed to be insurgent training grounds. At one, they confiscated electric wire, PVC pipes, a personal computer along with a video cassette on Al Qaeda's terrorist training. Reports say police also recovered several notebooks containing records of the movement of security officials and...

Why boarding's such a riot Mike Jackson (Filed: 02/12/2004) Boarding school pupils get into all sorts of trouble, from binge drinking to pornography, says Mike Jackson Parents pay fortunes for the privileges of a top public school education, yet the antics that can go on in them can be just as outrageous as anything at the local comprehensive. All the more so when large numbers of teenagers are gathered together in hotel-style boarding houses and left to their own devices. Indeed, today's boarding schools are now so full of happy, high-spirited children and fantastic facilities that all sorts of high...

Sent by his American parents to a posh Swiss boarding school in the foothills of the Alps, an 11-year-old John F. Kerry did what most any other kid would do - he learned to curse in Italian. ``Spaccare la faccia, porco,'' Cam Kerry remembered his older brother saying, a phrase which, loosely translated, means ``Shove it in your face, pig.'' But John Kerry wasn't any normal kid. Just a few years later, tucked in another high-brow boarding school - this one the exclusive St. Paul's in Concord, N.H., a teenage Kerry helped form a debating club and won a prize...

NO NURSERY FOR ENGLISH-SPEAKING BABY Jun 29 2004 By Richard Smith A BOY of three had a full-time nursery place taken away partly because he speaks English and has a garden, says his mum. Christopher Townsend was due to start in September but he no longer qualifies for a place under the council-run school's new admissions policy. Mum Nicki, 39, said yesterday: "I was told he did not fit the criteria as he had English as his first language and that he came from a home with a garden." Nicki, an occupational therapist, has lived in the catchment area for...

The Institut Montana, a boarding school near the Swiss town of Zug, is hoping to reap dividends from its association with John Kerry, who was a pupil there 50 years ago. The Democratic presidential hopeful won yet another primary election in the American state of Wisconsin on Tuesday. RELATED ITEMS "He was the best student of the elementary school." A school for presidents (Broadband) A school for presidents (58K Modem/ISDN) Learning multiculturalism in Leysin The Institut Montana has changed little since United States Democratic presidential frontrunner John Kerry attended it as a student exactly 50 years ago. The Montana has...

Zug's tugged heartstrings The people in the hamlet of Zug, around 25km south of Zurich, are getting interested in American politics, now that Senator John Kerry is leading the pack of democratic hopefuls for president. Mr Kerry spent two years studying at the Institut Montana Zugerberg, a local boarding school, when his father was a diplomat in Berlin in 1954. During his time at the school, Mr Kerry rubbed elbows with the offspring of kings (Spanish, anyway) and other blue-bloods, such as Habsburg-Lothringens, Bourbons, Rothschilds and Bacardis. Whether this youthful hobnobbing will help him win the hearts and minds of...