Two 16-year-olds who were expelled from a Lutheran high school because they were suspected of being lesbians have sued the school for invasion of privacy and discrimination.The lawsuit, filed last week in Riverside County Superior Court, seeks the girls' re-enrollment at the small California Lutheran High School, unspecified damages and an injunction barring the school […]
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US: Expelled students sue school
US: Want a snow day? Try flushing ice cubes
When it comes to conjuring a snowstorm, 8-year-old Taylor Zelman has more than a few tricks aimed at getting the day off from school.She wears her pajamas inside out and backward. She runs around the kitchen table five times and flushes ice cubes down the toilet. And as she goes to sleep on winter school […]
US: Teen skips out, drops in for first-hand look at war in Iraq
BAGHDAD - Maybe it was the time the taxi dumped him at the Iraq-Kuwait border, leaving him alone in the middle of the desert. Or when he drew a crowd at a Baghdad food stand after using an Arabic phrase book to order. Or the moment a Kuwaiti cab driver almost punched him in the […]
NSA Web site tracked visitors' surfing
By ANICK JESDANUN, Associated Press First published: Thursday, December 29, 2005 NEW YORK -- The National Security Agency's Internet site has been placing files on visitors' computers that can track their Web surfing activity despite strict federal rules banning most of them.Advertisement These files, known as "cookies," disappeared after a privacy activist complained and The […]
Pakistan schools refuse to expel pupils
Pakistan's religious schools refuse to meet the president's 31 December deadline to expel foreign students.The governing body of 12,000 madrassas said the order was "illegal, discriminatory and un-Islamic".President Pervez Musharraf ordered the expulsion in July after at least one of the London suicide bombers was shown to have visited a Pakistani madrassa.The government said on […]
UK: Uniforms plan to boost exam marks
Two Derby schools are to bring back strict school uniforms in an attempt to improve pupil's behaviour and results.The school shirt, tie and blazer is to be reintroduced in September at Derby Moor Community Sports College and The Woodlands Community School.Wendy Frater, headteacher at Derby Moor, is hoping the more business-like clothing will improve exam […]
US: College counselors adapt to diverse, reluctant students
Janie Cisneros was having a crisis and needed to talk to a counselor. But there would be no embarrassing or intimidating visit to the campus clinic.Instead, Sigrid Frandsen-Pechenik took Cisneros to the mall, where they had coffee and talked in English and Spanish.It was not the usual approach to mental health counseling. But as campuses […]
US: PATRIOT Act Extended By One Month
The extension comes following a shocking reversal by the Republican controlled House of Representatives which saw several Republican lawmakers join with Democrats in voting to reject a longer extension of the act citing privacy concerns. The House voted to extend the act by one month as opposed to the six months the Senate had voted […]
US: School Bus Driver Fired
Shon Clausen was fired after he failed to report a student's marijuana use, school officials said.The school district hasn't alleged any criminal conduct.Clausen said the failure to report was an error in judgment.Posted by: SoulRiserSource Article
US: Wrong Number Lands Man In Jail
Police said Randy Wessel thought he was calling his buddy, but he actually called someone else. Wessel then told the person on the other end about some criminal activity.The person on the other end of the phone was an undercover police officer.Wessel is now charged with theft for stealing a car from a pizza deliveryman.Posted […]
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