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"A Massachusetts school district superintendent said a memo banning sixth graders from carrying pencils was written without district approval.

School officials have threatened a hearing-impaired girl with suspension if she uses sign language to talk to her friends on the school bus, the girl's parents say.

Danica Lesko and her parents say sign language is the only way to for the 12-year-old to communicate, especially while riding to school on a noisy bus.

The March 30 letter from her principal that said Danica was "doing sign language after being told it wasn't allowed on the bus."

Mom in Ohio convicted of tampering with records to enroll her kids in a better school. School wasted $6000 on an investigation. Kids grandfather is awaiting trial on grand theft charges because the kids cost the district $30,000 in tuition.

Food Fight: Chicago School Bans Students From Bringing Own Lunches:

"Nutrition wise, it is better for the children to eat at the school."

An elementary school boy from Newport Beach, California was suspended from school this week for the kombucha that his mom had packed in his lunchbox. School administration said it violated the school district’s drug and alcohol policy.

Daily News @ http://RevolutionNews.US - In Bridgeport,CT. Tanya McDowel was charged with grand larceny for stealing around $16,000 from the school district. The cost per child to be educated is how the School district came up with around $16,000. Tanya used the Babysitters address to enroll her child in school while Mother worked and stay in shelter at night

Two mothers filed a free-speech lawsuit Monday against a Pennsylvania school district that suspended their daughters for wearing the popular "I (heart) boobies!" bracelets. The American Civil Liberties Union believes the lawsuit is the first in the country over a school's ban on the $4 bracelets, which are designed to raise breast-cancer awareness among young people. The rubber jewelry has become wildly popular among students, prompting bans across the country.

BOLDFACE CENSORSHIP:After the suspension of the Tucson Unified School District's Mexican American studies department, TUSD has confiscated and continues to confiscate MAS teaching materials. Besides artwork and posters etc, that includes books, many written by American born latino writers...

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.”