MONROE, N.Y. (AP) - School officials apologized after an X-rated font was used on a third-grade spelling packet handed out to parents. The font showed male and female stick figures in provocative poses to form the letters of the alphabet.Officials with the Monroe-Woodbury School District in Orange County apologized last week after parents at Pine […]
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X-Rated Font Used on Third-Grade Handout
Maine Parents Upset Over Rude Rhymes
BANGOR, Maine (AP) - A book of rhymes handed out to kindergarten classes across Maine is being criticized by some parents as inappropriate. "Schoolyard Rhymes" is a compilation of 50 verses included in bags given to 18,000 pupils through the Read With ME literacy project supported by Gov. John Baldacci and his wife Karen.Karen Baldacci, […]
US: First-Grader Suspended Over Plastic Squirt Gun
Six-year-old suspended 10 days for bringing squirt gun to school. With pic of bright orange plastic squirt gun. Hooray for zero tolerance!=======KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- A Missouri mother is angry that her first-grader was suspended from school over a plastic toy gun."I asked her, 'You're going to suspend my son for 10 days for this? […]
US: Saying the pledge becomes compulsory in North Carolina
A shortage of flags, questions about patriotism, and confusion among teachers have greeted a new state law requiring public school students to recite the Pledge of Allegiance in the classroom. Some teachers said they were unprepared for the requirement and not sure what directions to give students. For many, the biggest issue has been a […]
Police Mistake 13 Year Old For a Car Thief
When he was yanked from his family's minivan and shoved to the ground by two large men, Brandon thought he was being mugged.Then he saw the gun."It freaked me out," the 13-year-old Surrey youth said yesterday. "I didn't know what to think."It wasn't until he felt handcuffs clamp his wrist that he realized the men […]
US: Colleges grapple with student suicides
NEW YORK - A depressed Hunter College student who swallowed handfuls of Tylenol, then saved her own life by calling 911, was in for a surprise when she returned to her dorm room after the ordeal.The lock had been changed.She was being expelled from the dorm, the school informed her, because she violated her housing […]
US: Starr Wants To Keep Students Suspended
President Clinton's impeachment nemesis Kenneth Starr is staying busy. Monday, the former Independent Counsel is expected to file a petition asking the U.S. Supreme Court to uphold the suspension of a high school student disciplined for holding a banner across the street from campus reading, "BONG HITS 4 JESUS."The incident occurred in January 2002, as […]
US: Social Worker Investigates Child Left Home Alone
The mother of a member family in Boerne, Texas, needed to drive her 14-year-old daughter to her summer job. Knowing the trip would take just a few minutes, the mother left her 10-year-old at home alone. By accident, the 10-year-old dialed 911, then hung up.Not long after, a police officer visited the family's home to […]
US: Curfew considered for Utica
UTICA - Common Council members are discussing whether to establish a youth curfew for residents younger than 17 in an effort to curb street violence.It's an idea that's been talked about several times in recent years but has never come to fruition. With the city of Rochester beginning a 90-day pilot program next week, though, […]
US: Largely evangelical movement calls for public school pullout
NEW YORK (AP) -- Public schools take a lot of criticism, but a growing, loosely organized movement is now moving from harsh words to action -- with parents taking their own children out of public schools and exhorting other families to do the same.Led mainly by evangelical Christians, the movement depicts public education as hostile […]
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