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...Adam Powell Grade School... "It hasn't been a problem all this time and all of a sudden they can't have breakfast because of their shoes," Kahlia Edwards, the boys' mother, says. Edwards says the boys have been wearing the shoes all year and administrators never complained. She's confused. The boy's great aunt is livid. "I don't care if they had on orange shoes, they were in line to eat," Robin Price says. "I'm not going to feed you because you have the wrong shoes? Shoes? No, no." ...
The university has ended the popular Human Sexuality course that, for the past, 20 years has entertained and informed students because of a February demonstration that involved a motorized sex toy penetrating a female guest... used a reciprocating saw fitted with an adult pleasure device on his fiance... in front of a class... [AAAHHHHHH!]
A new study presents evidence that more than a quarter of sociologists (27.8 percent) would "weigh favorably" membership in the Democratic Party by a candidate for academic appointment, and nearly 30 percent would weigh favorably a prospective candidate's membership in the ACLU. More than a quarter (28.7 percent) would disfavor hiring a Republican, and 41.2 percent would weigh negatively a candidate's membership in the National Rifle Association. The study shows even greater bias against candidates with particular religious affiliations. Substantial numbers of the sociologists surveyed said they would be "less likely to hire" evangelical Christians and fundamentalists if they were aware that a candidate fell into either of those categories. Evangelicals face the barrier that 2 out of 5 sociologists (39.1 percent) are disposed not to hire them. Fundamentalists fare even a bit worse: 41.2 percent of sociologists say they would take such an affiliation negatively into account.
[17yo] from Kingsthorpe, Northampton, was in a Government and Politics lecture at Northampton School for Girls when she yawned and dislocated her jaw.
Thirty years after he dropped out of high school because of family illnesses and emergencies, Andrew Cain finally received his diploma - and an orange and black tassel - on Thursday. Cain, members of his family and representatives from the Tulsa Virtual Academy and Booker T. Washington High School attended a special ceremony in Superintendent Keith Ballard's office, where Cain thanked everyone for coming and for the opportunity to finish what he started in 1981. "I'm really overwhelmed," he said at the afternoon ceremony. "It makes me feel loved, makes me proud."
"The student found some information on the Internet on a person he thought was her, including photos, and printed it out at home and brought it in.... He asked her, 'Is this you?' And she said yes. Of course, she immediately realized this could have some implications...." [Well, I should say!]
I swear, that's the ultimate goal, for teachers to get paid without having to teach kids at school. Teaching is a great profession, it's just that it's really hard to do when there are kids around. [With all due respect to the many frustrated teachers trying to actually teach, despite system and society's children both.]
So how does brokeass, dumbass, redneck Texas stack up against progressive unionized Wisconsin?... To recap: white students in Texas perform better than white students in Wisconsin, black students in Texas perform better than black students in Wisconsin, Hispanic students in Texas perform better than Hispanic students in Wisconsin. In 18 separate ethnicity-controlled comparisons, the only one where Wisconsin students performed better than their peers in Texas was 4th grade science for Hispanic students (statistically insignificant), and this was reversed by 8th grade. ...
Arizona school officials violated the constitutional rights of a 13-year-old girl when they strip-searched her on the suspicion she might be hiding ibuprofen in her underwear, the Supreme Court ruled yesterday. The decision put school districts on notice that such searches are "categorically distinct" from other efforts to combat illegal drugs.... What was missing, Souter wrote, "was any indication of danger to the students from the power of the drugs or their quantity, and any reason to suppose that Savana was carrying pills in her underwear."... Justice Clarence Thomas was the lone dissenter. "Judges are not qualified to second-guess the best manner for maintaining quiet and order in the school environment..." [Oh, go back to your hairy Coke, Clarence!]
Bad practices that many students believe will make them become expert engineers are the ire of managers who hire recent engineering graduates.
A startling number of children are falling through the cracks at one Chicago Public School. More than half of the kids didn't even pass the eighth grade.
all of the girls said Factor made them feel uncomfortable by touching their legs, backs, buttocks, shoulders, arms, hands or knees. One girl said the situation eventually led her to leave Hale and TPS altogether. She said Factor called her "babe," moved his chair close to hers and put his hands between her legs while helping her in class. She said she repeatedly told him to stop, took her concerns to the school's principal, dean, attendance dean and a coach and tried in vain to be transferred out of Factor's class. "They told me that they could not do anything and that it was my word against his," she wrote. "When I went back to class, Mr. Factor said to me, quietly in my ear, 'Thanks for telling on me.' During the semester I turned in a paper to be graded. I asked, 'Can you grade my paper now?' He said, 'I'll grade it if you stop telling on me....' "
At Penn Hills High School this morning, Chief Burton said, a student was walking up and down a hallway, using a cell phone. School policy permits students to have cell phones but not to use them during school except in emergencies, Chief Burton said. A Penn Hills police officer told him to put the phone away and go to class. "The kid refused to listen," Chief Burton said. "The officer took him by the arm and said, 'You have to go to the office.' The student resisted, pushed the officer. The officer, defending himself, took out his stun gun and did a drive stun." Chief Burton said a drive stun involves pushing the Taser against a portion of the body and squeezing the trigger, thus immobilizing a portion of the body, such as the leg
after the boy's mother was tipped off by school employees, she checked her son's cell phone and found hundreds of calls and texts from Weber, the last text reading, "erase your phone."
A third-grader was expelled from a local private school after a "hit list" of students and a teacher was found in his desk.
grade school principal suspended over accusations she hawked her racy self-published potboiler during faculty meetings
When a Fairfax County mother got an urgent call from school last month reporting that her teenage daughter was caught popping a pill at lunchtime, she did not panic. "It was probably her birth-control pill," she thought. She was right. Her heart dropped that afternoon in the assistant principal's office at Oakton High School when she and her daughter heard the mandatory punishment: A two-week suspension and recommendation for expulsion.
Gay rights groups are complaining about the firing of a rural Oklahoma high school teacher who lost her job last week after assigning a play about the 1998 death of a gay college student. But the tiny school district says the move came after the teacher held a mock "funeral" for a canceled film production of the play.
Ten children at a day care center drank windshield wiper fluid after a staffer served it from a container mistaken for Kool-Aid and placed in a refrigerator, ... Doctors estimate the children, ages 2 to 7, drank about an ounce of the blue fluid ... Only one child remained hospitalized Friday morning, after blood samples showed "measurable levels" of methanol,...
Two Bountiful Junior High School teachers are accused of sexually assaulting the same 13-year-old student, after their separate relationships with him spiraled from personal conversations to the exchange of sexual text messages and phone sex
a team of University of Illinois education professors has found that public-school students outperform their private-school classmates on standardized math tests, thanks to two key factors: certified math teachers, and a modern, reform-oriented math curriculum.
McKinney police inspected McKinney High School students after school officials detected the smell of marijuana on a school bus. ... police officers responded to the stopped bus and conducted a search of the bus and the students. Alex Green, a McKinney High School student, said everyone on the bus could smell it. "We were just driving down the road and started smelling pot," ... Another student who asked not to be identified said he was sitting in front of the two students who brought the marijuana on the bus. He said they weren't smoking it, just burning it. "The bus driver's assistant smelled it and they were just burning it,"
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