A five-day suspension of a Collinsville High School student for wearing rosary beads has sparked a debate over free speech
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Posted in Overreaction by momoffive 358 days ago (http://www.stltoday.com)Campus Shooting Problem? Texas Solution: Arm the Students!
Posted in Overreaction by smarty 366 days ago (http://www.usatoday.com)A bill before the Texas house of representatives would give college students and professors the right to pack heat. The reason? To discourage people from shooting college students. Republican Gov. Rick Perry, who sometimes packs a pistol when he jogs, has said he's in favor of the idea.
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Justin Bieber Shirts Banned From New York School
Posted in Overreaction by smarty 373 days ago (http://www.examiner.com)Teacher Fired For Premarital Sex
Posted in Overreaction by momoffive 393 days ago (http://today.msnbc.msn.com)
Jarretta Hamilton and her husband of 16 months, Samuel Treftz, say that the termination of Ms.Hamilton's job at Southland Christian School in St. Cloud, Fla. violated federal anti-discrimination laws. In addition, they allege in a pending lawsuit, the school’s principal, Jon Ennis, invaded Hamilton’s privacy by telling other teachers and the parents of her students the exact reason
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Angry Crazy Music Teacher Destroys Students Violin
Posted in Overreaction by smarty 684 days ago (http://www.youtube.com)
Student fails to be quiet. Teacher silences teacher by destroying violin.
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Praying Mississippi High School Teacher Re-hired
Posted in Overreaction by smarty 636 days ago (http://www.natchezdemocrat.com)Now you're fired, now your not:
“They called me at lunch to come down to the central office with my principal,” she said. “(Fleming) more or less told us, since they didn’t have any documentation, they would reinstate me.”
Read More | 2 CommentsGeorgia School Shakes Down Parents for Lunch Money
Posted in Overreaction by smarty 662 days ago (http://abcnews.go.com)
Having solved all other budget problems, Brantley (Georgia) county school district has hired a collection agency to get parents to pay their children's school lunch debt. Parents who do not pay their school lunch debts will be charged 40% interest. The district is located in a low income area and gets federal funds to provide hot meals to students that cannot afford them.
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Mississippi school purges top student from yearbook for being lesbian
Posted in Overreaction by smarty 649 days ago (http://boingboing.net)
Copiah County School District officials refused to publish even a reference to Ceara Sturgis, a senior at Wesson Attendance Center, a high school in Mississippi because she is a lesbian. In a joint statement with the ACLU, Sturgis' mother explained they expected the yearbook to at least contain a reference to her daughter on the senior page. What she discovered on Friday, when the yearbo
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