Monday, April 09, 2007Review: Compound Security Mosquito Teenage Deterrent SystemThis teenage repellent guarantees it will "shoo away" young people with baggy pants and bad posture by emitting a high-pitched alarm supposedly only audible to those under the age of 25. Shaped and sized like a floodlight, we visited a local middle school and set it […]
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Review: Compound Security Mosquito Teenage Deterrent System
Pranksters glue all of a school's doors shut
Forget being glued to their seats: Kids at a suburban San Diego high school couldn't even get through their classroom doors Friday.With only a day to go before spring break, vandals plugged locks on all the exterior gates and doors on campus with super-strength adhesive."A teacher who always gets there early called me on my […]
A geyser erupts in a New zealand school, no shit!
The phenomenon burst open at Rotorua Primary School, on the North Island, yesterday, according to wire reports.The Fire Service said it was lucky the geyser didn't blow on a school day.Principal John Naera was quoted as satying the explosion was in an area which was fenced off because it was most likely to be prone […]
US: Texas Teen's Imprisonment Sparks Protests
Civil rights activists are rallying around a 15-year-old black girl who has been in a high-security juvenile detention center for a year for shoving a hall monitor at her school and whose sentence was just extended for what authorities call possession of contraband: an extra pair of socks and a plastic foam cup.One of 4,562 […]
US: Student punished for spaghetti beliefs
A student has been suspended from school in America for coming to class dressed as a pirate.But the disciplinary action has provoked controversy
First-grader suspended for showing Paris Hilton cartoon
A first-grader became increasingly aware he was in trouble for showing classmates an online game featuring a cartoon of a near-naked Paris Hilton when a girl told the teacher, the teacher sent him to the principal, and the principal called his mother."I thought I would get grounded, like I am now," said Dylan Poitrinal, 7. […]
Editorial: Public-school case poses troubling questions
Saw this while reading my local paper this morning, i think something about this story has already been posted but what the hell :P -lifeischeeseNo speech 4 U: Public-school case poses troubling questionsClint Talbott, for the editorial boardThursday, March 22, 2007The wit and wisdom of unfurling a banner espousing "Bong Hits 4 Jesus" is, perhaps, […]
Boy puts urine in teacher's coffee pot
MUNCIE, Ind. - An eighth-grader faces expulsion after admitting he put urine in a teacher's coffee pot, officials said. The Wilson Middle School teacher noticed that the coffee had an unusual odor Friday and reported it to the principal, Muncie Community Schools officials said. A student who overheard classmates discussing it also reported the incident […]
US: Compulsory Attendance Risk Gets Bigger
On Thursday, March 15, the New Hampshire Senate voted 17 to 7 to pass Senate Bill 18. This bill would raise the age of compulsory attendance from 16 to 18, and create an "alternative learning plan," which would allow youth over the age of 16 to satisfy the compulsory attendance requirement without remaining in public […]
Court Hears "Bong Hits 4 Jesus" Case
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - In its first major student free-speech rights case in almost 20 years, U.S. Supreme Court justices struggled on Monday with how far schools can go in censoring students.In a case involving a Juneau, Alaska, high school student suspended for unfurling a banner that read "Bong Hits 4 Jesus," several justices seemed wary […]
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