A five-day suspension of a Collinsville High School student for wearing rosary beads has sparked a debate over free speech Read More | Discuss 

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.

Is allowing students to pack heat the solution to crazy, well armed people massacring colle Read More | Discuss 

New York Roosevelt High School School has banned Justin Bieber T-Shirts and has sent several students home for wearing them. Aside the lawsuits, bad press, and stomping on student constitutional rights, is there a problem with this? Read More | Discuss 
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 Read More | Discuss 
Student fails to be quiet. Teacher silences teacher by destroying violin. Read More | 3 Comments

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.”

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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. Read More | 1 Comment 
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 Read More | Discuss 


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