HARROLD, Tex. - Students in this tiny town of grain silos and ranch-style houses spent much of the first couple of days in school this week trying to guess which of their teachers were carrying pistols under their clothes."We made fun of them," said Eric Howard, a 16-year-old high school junior. "Everybody knows everybody here. […]
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Hundreds of students suspended for wearing the wrong belt
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 […]
Teacher Gave Kids Drugs, Police Say
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 […]
School To Put Students In 'Prison' Jumpsuits As Punishment
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 […]
Some back ex-principal's treatment of lesbian
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 […]
Texas truant students to be tracked by GPS anklets
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 […]
GED vs High School Diploma
A GED is basically the equivalent to a high school diploma, but for some reason, 3-5% of colleges and employers still don't accept it as good enough for them. Why is this? Let's take a look at the differences, and possible reasons why some people have a GED instead of a normal diploma. Reasons to […]
South African student kills 1; injures 3 with ninja swords
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 […]
City Council meeting blabbers about saggy pants for five hours
Charleston City Councilman Wendell Gilliard leaves with a mannequin he brought to the council meeting Tuesday night. He used the mannequin to illustrate the sagging pants style that he wants the council to outlaw.Charleston moved closer to loaning $734,500 to the American College of the Building Arts on Tuesday, while a controversial ordinance that would […]
Student Killed in Shooting at Tenn. School
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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