http://www.freetalklive.com/taxonomy/term/3292/0 en http://www.freetalklive.com/content/concord_could_fine_students_cutting_class <p>CONCORD (KCBS) – It could soon cost kids, and parents in Concord upwards of $500 if the teenager continues to cut class.</p> http://www.freetalklive.com/content/concord_could_fine_students_cutting_class#comments Education News Article school sucks Wed, 13 Jul 2011 12:31:32 +0000 masshole 12683 at http://www.freetalklive.com http://www.freetalklive.com/content/teen_raped_after_being_used_school_bait <p>If a high school student goes to administrators to report that she and another teenage girl were raped by a boy at the school, you might think that the immediate course of action would be to keep the survivors safe while investigating the allegations. But a student at Upper St. Claire High School is suing her school district for using her as bait, which resulted in her being raped a second time.</p> http://www.freetalklive.com/content/teen_raped_after_being_used_school_bait#comments Incompetence News Article school sucks Thu, 05 Aug 2010 13:33:43 +0000 stuntmantdave 6266 at http://www.freetalklive.com http://www.freetalklive.com/content/nj_school_district_bans_sign_language_bus_safety_reasons <p>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.</p> <p>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.</p> <p>The March 30 letter from her principal that said Danica was "doing sign language after being told it wasn't allowed on the bus."</p> http://www.freetalklive.com/content/nj_school_district_bans_sign_language_bus_safety_reasons#comments Deaf Education