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Hundreds of students suspended for wearing the wrong belt (5 Comments)Posted in: News by NewsBot @ 12:00 AM

Hundreds of students at Seagoville High School were banned from classes Tuesday for dress code violations. Belt violations, to be exact. The dress code calls for students to wear a plain black or brown belt with a plain buckle. Anything that can be considered decoration is a strict violation of dress code. You have to [...]

August 29, 2008:

Texas boy, 13, sentenced to 15 years in prison (9 Comments)Posted in: News by NewsBot @ 12:00 AM

WACO, Texas -- A 13-year-old boy who admitted stabbing a teenage friend to death earlier this summer has received a 15-year sentence as part of a plea agreement.State District Judge Alan Mayfield accepted the plea agreement Monday after rejecting a 10-year proposal earlier this month. The boy was 12 at the time of the June [...]

Teacher Gave Kids Drugs, Police Say (1 Comment)Posted in: News by NewsBot @ 12:00 AM

The students who put together the 2007 yearbook at Thomas S. Wootton High School in Rockville dubbed Theresa C. Duarte "the coolest woman alive."But Montgomery County police say the former English teacher and yearbook adviser's relationship with two students turned criminal in June, when she gave them cocaine -- one of them on two occasions [...]

August 25, 2008:

Nebraska law allows abandonment of teens (1 Comment)Posted in: News by NewsBot @ 12:00 AM

OMAHA, Neb. - Nebraska's new "safe-haven" law allowing parents to abandon unwanted children at hospitals with no questions asked is unique in a significant way: It goes beyond babies and potentially permits the abandonment of anyone under 19.While lawmakers may not have intended it, the month-old law raises the possibility that frustrated parents could drop [...]

August 24, 2008:

School To Put Students In 'Prison' Jumpsuits As Punishment (10 Comments)Posted in: News by NewsBot @ 12:00 AM

GONZALES, Texas. -- A school in Texas will force students who don't follow the rules to wear prison-like jumpsuits in a controversial move this coming school year.Gonzales High School has new navy blue jumpsuits that students will wear if they break the dress code.Violators will be forced to wear the jumpsuit for the day, the [...]

August 23, 2008:

Texas truant students to be tracked by GPS anklets (8 Comments)Posted in: News by NewsBot @ 12:00 AM

SAN ANTONIO, Texas - Court authorities here will be able to track students with a history of skipping school under a new program requiring them to wear ankle bracelets with Global Positioning System monitoring.But at least one group is worried the ankle bracelets will infringe on students' privacy.Linda Penn, a Bexar County justice of the [...]

Some back ex-principal's treatment of lesbian (8 Comments)Posted in: News by NewsBot @ 12:00 AM

When a high school senior told her principal that students were taunting her for being a lesbian, he told her homosexuality is wrong, outed her to her parents and ordered her to stay away from children.He suspended some of her friends who expressed their outrage by wearing gay pride T-shirts and buttons at Ponce de [...]

August 22, 2008:

South African student kills 1; injures 3 with ninja swords (5 Comments)Posted in: News by NewsBot @ 12:00 AM

Johannesburg - In an apparent Satanic ritual, a Krugersdorp matriculant "with mad eyes" arrived at school on Monday with several Ninja swords and allegedly killed one boy before seriously injuring three more people.The victim was a 16-year-old boy at the Nic Diederichs Technical High School. Another pupil sustained serious head wounds while two gardeners were [...]

August 21, 2008:

Colleges Want to Talk About Drinking Age (3 Comments)Posted in: News by NewsBot @ 12:00 AM

On the face of it, the notion seems counterintuitive, but to the presidents of some of the nation's most prestigious colleges, it makes a lot of sense: Lowering the legal drinking age might get students to drink less.But any chance for the academic leaders to begin a public discussion of their theory -- that allowing [...]

Student Killed in Shooting at Tenn. School (2 Comments)Posted in: News by NewsBot @ 12:00 AM

A student fatally shot a 15-year-old classmate Thursday at a high school, police said, as other teenagers watched in horror as the victim clutched his chest and fell to the floor.Police identified the victim as Ryan McDonald, a sophomore who lived with his grandmother and had alopecia, a condition that left him bald since he [...]

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