18 of the 19 students enrolled in the class were members of the North Carolina football team (the other was a former member), steered there by academic advisers who saw their roles as helping athletes maintain high enough grades to
A 5th-grader was suspended from school for using an imaginary bow and arrow. Johnny Jones, 10, fell prey to South Eastern Middle School’s zero-tolerance weapons policy when he used a No. 2 pencil to engage in a playful back-and-forth
A Florida judge has ordered several children in a homeschooling family into public school district classes based on the “gut reaction” of a court appointee in a divorce and custody case where homeschooling wasn’t even an issue.
The anti-LGBT comments started after Holmes enrolled at Magnolia Junior High in 2011. Teachers would call her a “he/she” and she was forced to use the boys’ restroom. Students regularly referred to her as “dyke,” “lesbo” and “dyke-ass freak.”
Sam McNair is a 17-year-old student at Duluth High School in Georgia. He was suspended last week when a school hearing officer decided he violated the Gwinnett County Public Schools’ rules on sexual harassment.
Police in Riverside County, have been running an undercover sting investigation in a local school to hunt down small time teenage drug vendors and users. The semester long operation resulted in the arrest of 25 different teenagers, all of whom
Zachary Golob-Drake, a 5th grader at the Patel Partnership School in Tampa Florida was elated recently when he won first place with a speech and an invitation to compete in the 4-H Tropicana Public Speech Contest. However, his assistant principal the
Hard cases make bad laws. Policymakers' overly punitive and police-centric response to high profile school shootings demonstrate this fact. But if you have doubts, ask the six-year-old child who was handcuffed to a chair as punishment after he
A student armed with a shotgun and seeking to confront a teacher opened fire at a Colorado high school on Friday, wounding at least two classmates before apparently taking his own life, law enforcement officials said.
Kindergartners through 6th-graders were told to throw objects at a shooter. Playing loud music or making loud noises are other ways to distract a gunman. [unarmed] Teachers are encouraged to physically overwhelm an armed attacker.
A 12 year old Canadian boy passed away from a severe asthma attack, which could have been avoided if the inhaler his doctor prescribed had been on hand, instead of in the Principal's office under lock and key.
“I didn’t hear him say anything like, ‘Get down on your hands and knees,’ you know? I didn’t hear him say anything. He just started shooting,” the witness said. “He emptied the gun on him…. Boom, boom, boom. Six shots — five or six.”
Students must take a meal at school even if they only want a carton of milk, according to federal regulations presented at the Board of School Committee meeting. Mayor Ted Gatsas and other school board members reacted with dismay
What would you do if you received a threatening letter from your child’s school, demanding that you take your youngster to a medical doctor and dentist at the whims of the school administrators, or risk being reported to the child welfare authorities
Acosta says her son had broken up a fight at Cedar Creek High School when police arrived. They told him to put his hands in the air, but she says they shot him anyway with a taser that knocked him to the ground where he struck his head causing
The federal government made enough money on student loans over the last year that, if it wanted, it could provide maximum-level Pell Grants of $5,645 to 7.3 million college students. The $41.3-billion profit for the 2013 fiscal year is down $3.6 bill
Oregon school officials accused a student of a crime after a confrontation with a staff member, calling police who arrested him on disorderly conduct and harassment charges, before they went around and deleted video evidence of the alleged
Vedder said federally subsidized college loans forced tuition rates through the roof and wreaked havoc on college students’ checking accounts and future debt, but worst of all the program hurt the very students it aimed to help: low-income ones.
Parents of a sixth grade student at the Milam Elementary School in Tupelo, Mississippi were shocked when their daughter brought home a political beliefs worksheet that teachers told students to fill out.
Nothing could be more terrifying than when agents of the government kick in your door to take your children, especially if you have done nothing wrong.
Help us STOP Common Core and the dumbing down of your children at school!
“The “top-down” approach the federal government is pushing on Pennsylvania’s children and their teachers is contrary to our Constitutional freedoms.
One of my deepest con
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