School Survival

By lostincali Many school districts have recently implemented "Zero Tolerance" fighting policies. What this means varies from locality to locality, but it generally involves severe punishments for anyone involved in fighting, without regard to any details of the case. In practice this means that those who attack others and those who defend themselves are punished […]

Students were evacuated from Millennial Tech Magnet Middle School in the Chollas View neighborhood Friday afternoon after an 11-year-old student brought a personal science project that he had been making at home to school, authorities said. Maurice Luque, spokesman for the San Diego Fire-Rescue Department, said the student had been making the device in his […]

ZERO TOLERANCE DISCIPLINE, DISCRIMINATION, AND THE SCHOOL TO PRISON PIPELINE The School to Prison Pipeline (STPP) is a nationwide system of local, state, and federal education and public safety policies that pushes students out of school  and into the criminal justice system. The system disproportionately targets youth of color and youth with disabilities. Inequities in […]

They say everything is bigger in Texas, and the king-sized failures of the justice system are no exception. A Harris County District had a major justice FAIL recently when he prosecuted a 13-year-old girl for prostitution, despite the fact that she's legally a human trafficking victim and not old enough to consent to sex. And […]

New to Facebook, Brandon Neely was searching the site for acquaintances in 2008 when he typed in the names of some of the detainees he had guarded during his tenure as a prison guard at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. Mr. Neely, an Army veteran who spent six months at the prison in 2002, sent messages to […]

Children's operations are being delayed and cancelled as surgeons face criminal records checks every time they work in a different part of the country, it has been warned. Specialist surgeons working with children face delays in being cleared to start work when covering for colleagues on sick leave at other hospitals. The repeated checks can […]

I found out today that people search Google for "school fights" over 300k times a month. This means that people enjoy watching high school students beating the crap out of each other for no good reason. This is sad. So, in the hopes that some of the people searching for "school fights" will stumble upon […]

Supreme Court endorses 'hostility' toward Christianity A lower court's "hostility" towards Christianity will stand after the U.S. Supreme Court today refused to intervene in a school district's censorship of a kindergartener's choice of literature for a class reading. "By refusing to hear Mrs. Busch's case, the U.S. Supreme Court has endorsed the kind of hostility […]

He could just go to high school and be a normal senior. Or he could climb mountains. Johnny Collinson isn’t your normal high schooler. His friends might be fretting about the SATs and finding a date for Friday night, but he’s had his eyes on a bigger prize: Climbing the seven summits—the highest peaks on […]

NYPD personnel assigned to New York City’s public schools have repeatedly violated students’ civil rights through wrongful arrests and the excessive use of force, according to a class action federal lawsuit filed today by the New York Civil Liberties Union, American Civil Liberties Union and the law firm of Dorsey & Whitney LLP. The landmark […]