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Brave High School Student Calls Teacher Out

EcstaticShock — Thu, 09 May 2013 06:42:38 +0000

High school student storms out of classroom, but not before calling the teacher out on being a do-nothing paycheck collector.

Student Points to 'Heaven' Gets Team Banned from State Championships

snowdog2012 — Tue, 07 May 2013 23:35:00 +0000

“He put his hand by his ear and pointed to the heavens,” Hayes’ father, KC Hayes, told KHOU. “It was a reaction.

The gesture is a common one in sports -- remember Sammy Sosa or Barry Bonds after breaking the single season home run record? -- but on this occasion, it was deemed to have run afoul of a University Interscholastic League (UIL) regulation(s)...

Parents Fight To Regain Custody of Homeschooled Son (Sweden)

davidfordhere — Mon, 22 Apr 2013 23:23:37 +0000

Annie and Christer Johannson haven't seen their son, Domenic, in nearly four years. He was just seven when he was taken away from them at gunpoint in June 2009. The family was on an airplane about to leave Sweden for their new home in India, where Annie's family is from.

Home schooling in America

Mattfree88 — Mon, 22 Apr 2013 21:13:40 +0000

Home schooling in America
There are two million children, whose mothers and fathers choose to teach them at home in the United States.

8th grade student suspended, arrested over gun t-shirt

snowdog2012 — Sat, 20 Apr 2013 12:56:32 +0000

When 8th grade Jared Marcum got dressed for school on Thursday he says he had no idea that his pro-Second Amendment shirt would initiate what he calls a fight over his First Amendment rights.

"I don't' see how anybody would have an issue with a hunting rifle and NRA put on a t-shirt, especially when policy doesn't forbid it," Lardieri said.

Kindergartner Suspended for Haircut

snowdog2012 — Mon, 08 Apr 2013 23:14:03 +0000

Ethan's grandmother, Joyce Wells, thinks the suspension was too harsh a penalty to pay for a hairstyle.

Administrators at Reid Primary and Middle School in Springfield, Ohio, deemed the haircut disruptive, and ordered him home...

Wikileaks to Release 1.7 Million U.S. Intelligence Documents

snowdog2012 — Mon, 08 Apr 2013 02:18:57 +0000

The website has collated a variety of records including cables, intelligence reports and congressional correspondence and is releasing them in a searchable form on Monday.

Assange has carried out much of the work from his refuge in Ecuador's embassy in London and told the Press Association that the records highlighted the "vast range and scope" of US influence around the world.

Windham (NH) School District Bans Dodgeball

pmfalcon — Sun, 31 Mar 2013 19:54:07 +0000

Dodgeball has been banned in Windham schools, due to concerns about violence and bullying, with the School Board voting 4-1 to remove dodgeball and nine other “human target” activities from the district’s curriculum. “We spend a lot of time making sure our kids are violence free. Here we have games where we use children as targets. That seems to be counter to what we are trying to accomplish with our anti-bullying campaign.”

Cupcakes topped with army men figures confiscated at school

pmfalcon — Sat, 09 Mar 2013 17:18:17 +0000

Last week, Casey Fountain’s third grade son had a birthday party at school. His wife whipped up 30 cupcakes for the boy’s classmates. She topped the treats with plastic army guys. “And shortly after my wife delivered the cupcakes to the school she got a phone call from his teacher that said that the army men had to be removed, because they had guns.” Fountain says the principal called him personally and told him that dressing the cupcakes with soldiers was insensitive considering recent gun related tragedies, referring to the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary in Connecticut.

Student films teacher stealing, principle orders delete footage

GDW — Wed, 27 Feb 2013 16:37:24 +0000

Student hides in a locker to film a thief, it turns out to be a popular teacher. Principle tells her to delete the footage

Fighting the 'Fat Letters'

Jking8767 — Tue, 26 Feb 2013 11:41:10 +0000

One day last year, Selectman Tracy Watson received a school letter about her son Cameron. It wasn't about his grades or his behavior. It was to inform her and her husband that Cameron was classified as "obese." "Honestly, I laughed," Watson said. The letter -- part of a state initiative to monitor children's Body Mass Index -- explained BMI standards and encouraged her and her husband to contact their pediatrician. But the letters have many in town crying foul and have ignited a debate over the government's role in children's health.

Kids' imaginations get in the way of schools' zero-tolerance policies

sanchopanza — Tue, 19 Feb 2013 06:26:53 +0000

Waiting in line for the bus, a Pennsylvania kindergartner tells her pals she's going to shoot them with a Hello Kitty toy that makes soap bubbles. In Maryland, two 6-year-old boys pretend their fingers are guns during a playground game of cops and robbers. In Massachusetts, a 5-year-old boy attending an after-school program makes a gun out of Legos and points it at other students while "simulating the sound of gunfire," as one school official put it.

Sorry Left AND Right, No Job Requires A College Degree

iamodd999 — Tue, 12 Feb 2013 09:44:03 +0000

Recently there was a television panel in which it was asked if there aren’t enough jobs that require a college degree for the coming glut of college grads. The question was a funny one, one that conferred on college grads skills much greater than those possessed by the average individual. Maybe, but not asked enough is what job requires a college degree? The truth is no job does, though politicians and policy analysts would have us believe otherwise.

Utah girl removed from classes over dyed hair color

Sammy316 — Sun, 10 Feb 2013 19:06:40 +0000

A southern Utah student has been removed from classes after administrators found her dyed hair color too distracting.
Rylee MacKay, a 15-year-old student at Hurricane Middle School in Hurricane, said she was sent to the office Wednesday after an administrator said her hair looked purple and pink in the sunlight.
Under Washington County School District policy, hair "should be within the spectrum of color that grows naturally," and administrators can decide whether a color is too distracting.

Amazing Speech at the National Prayer Breakfast

spets916 — Sat, 09 Feb 2013 14:46:10 +0000

Dr. Benjamin Carson's Amazing Speech at the National Prayer Breakfast with Obama Present

Colordo boy suspended for pretending to save the wold from evil.

sanchopanza — Wed, 06 Feb 2013 23:21:30 +0000

A 7-year-old Colorado boy has been suspended for pretending to throw an imaginary grenade, even though the child claims he was just trying to save the world from evil.

Want To Tell The State To Stick It? Homeschool Your Kids

iamodd999 — Sat, 26 Jan 2013 09:32:45 +0000

This notion that the children belong to the state, that their education must be provided for by the state … is inimical at every step to liberty.” – J. Gresham Machen
The swelling legions of homeschoolers poke a subtle rebuke at America’s ever expanding nanny state.

Kindergartner Labeled "Terrorist Threat" By School Officials

snowdog2012 — Sat, 19 Jan 2013 12:39:39 +0000

Attorney Robin Ficker says Mount Carmel Area School District officials labeled the girl a "terrorist threat" for the bubble gun remark, made Jan. 10 as both girls waited for a school bus.

Two 6 Year Olds Suspended for Finger Guns at Recess

snowdog2012 — Wed, 16 Jan 2013 01:14:48 +0000

Two 6-year-olds were suspended from White Marsh Elementary School in Talbot County on Monday for using their fingers as imaginary guns while playing a game of cops and robbers on the playground at recess.