In New Canaan, CT school officials are considering adding radio frequency tags to student or staff ID cards, or placing them on school property, like laptops. This is purportedly to be useful for tracking students during school emergencies. I couldn’t have stated my opinion about this any better than the following comment from user, POIUYT, [...]
Raymond Hosier, a 13-year-old student in Schenectady, NY was suspended for two days for wearing rosary beads to school. Hosier said the beads comforted him since the loss of his brother and uncle. He refuses to take them off and could be suspended again if he continues to wear them to school.
This still is America isn’t it? Five students at a California high school – Daniel Galli, Austin Carvalho, Matt Dariano, Dominic Maciel and Clayton Howard, wearing patriotic U.S. shirts on May 5, Cinco de Mayo, were told they must turn their T-shirts inside-out or be suspended. Assistant Principal Miguel Rodriguez told the students he did [...]
Big Brother is not only watching you, he’s confiscating little children’s candy. A third-grade girl at Brazos Elementary in Orchard, Texas was given a week’s detention for having in her possession one piece of Jolly Rancher candy in the lunchroom. School officials are defending the sentence. A state law limits junk food in schools and [...]
A 15-year-old student, Ballard High School, Seattle, was given a pass, put in a taxi and sent off to have an abortion during school hours, all without her family’s knowledge. The girl’s mother had signed a consent form for use of the high school clinic, assuming that covered things like an earache, a sports physical, [...]