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Police Investigate after Student Writes Essay from White Supremacist’s Perspective
A Tracy student wrote a controversial essay on racism that prompted an investigation by law enforcement. The academic decathlon student was preparing for an upcoming debate and was given an open-ended writing prompt. The Director of Student Services at Tracy Unified School District, Troy Brown, said the students had "to write opposing viewpoints to a topic."
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A former Utah State University student described her rape and the school’s response on Facebook. Now the school is investigating.
Utah State University’s president assured students Friday that there will be a thorough investigation after several former students posted allegations this week on social media of systemic sexual violence and harassment within its music program — including a report that a piano faculty instructor raped a student in 2009.
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Utah mom upset after school tells 6th graders they can’t say no when asked to dance
When Natalie Richard’s sixth-grade daughter told her she couldn’t say “no” if a boy asked her to dance at Kanesville Elementary’s Valentine’s Day dance, she didn’t believe it at first. “Oh no, no honey," Richard said of her reply. "You guys are misunderstanding again. That’s not how it is."
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The business school where students graduate with a ready-made network
Networking and business go hand-in-hand, but how do you go about building a network to begin with?
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Why Schools Fail To Teach Slavery's 'Hard History'
"In the ways that we teach and learn about the history of American slavery," write the authors of a new report from the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), "the nation needs an intervention." This new report, titled Teaching Hard History: American Slavery, is meant to be that intervention: a resource for teachers who are eager to help their students better understand slavery — not as some "peculiar institution" but as the blood-soaked bedrock on which the United States was built.
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Instead of detention, these students get meditation
Into a room of pillows and lavender, an elementary school student walks, enraged. He's just been made fun of by another student, an altercation that turned to pushing and name-calling. But rather than detention or the principal's office, his teacher sent him here, to Robert W. Coleman Elementary School's meditation room.
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Teens who were severely bullied as children at higher risk of suicidal thoughts, mental health issue
Teens who were severely bullied as children by peers are at higher risk of mental health issues, including suicidal thoughts and behaviours, according to new research in CMAJ (Canadian Medical Association Journal). "Our findings showed a general tendency, in about 15% of the children, of being exposed to the most severe levels of victimization from the beginning of their education until the transition to high school," writes Dr. Marie-Claude Geoffroy, McGill Group for Suicide Studies, McGill University, Montréal, Quebec, with coauthors.
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Mother sues school district over voicemail mocking special needs daughter
A Pennsylvania mother is suing a local school district, claiming teachers mocked her daughter, who has disabilities. Those are some of the insults that were allegedly left in a voicemail on Beth Suhon's phone. The voices on the other end allegedly are her daughter’s former Claysville Elementary School teachers..
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Mother: Children Bullied At School For Not Being Christian
A frustrated Powell County mother said she's at her wit's end because of how her children are being treated at Stanton Elementary. She told LEX 18 that for two years, students and teachers have bullied her children for not being Christian.
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I Hate My Kids: The Weakest Link
There's always one in the group.
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Sheriff's Office To Pay $3 Million For Invasive Searches Of 850 High School Students
It's been barely a month since news came to us of the Worth County (GA) Sheriff's Department's search of an entire school's worth of high school students. Over 800 students were searched without a warrant, subjected to invasive pat...
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No, students can’t be kicked out of public school for refusing to stand during the Pledge of Allegiance
India Landry, a Windfern High School senior, says she was in the principal’s office on Monday when the pledge came over the intercom. She says the principal told her to stand, but she refused. “And then the pledge came on, and they both stood, and then I didn’t,” Landry said. “[The principal] asked me to, and I said I wouldn’t. And then she said ‘Well, you’re kicked out of here.’ ”
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Texas Teens Thrown Off High School Football Team After Kneeling for Anthem
Two Texas teens were thrown off their high school football team after they knelt in protest for the national anthem. Their coach, military veteran Ronnie Ray Mitchem, warned the boys of the consequences when they told him their plan to protest. "There is a proper time to do something in a proper way," Mitchem told ABC's KTRK.
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12-year-old girl commits suicide after teacher harassed her for period stains
A 12-year-old girl in Tamil Nadu, India, has committed suicide after her teacher shouted at and shamed her for period stains on her school uniform. According to the girl’s mother, the girl had gotten her period while in class, and was unprepared because she had had just begun puberty two months prior, Tamil Nadu publication the News Minute reported.
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Free lunch now will be provided for all NYC public school students
Every student in New York City public schools will be eligible to receive free lunch starting Thursday, the schools chancellor said. Free midday meals will be available to all schools and students that participate in SchoolFood, including charter and non-public schools, the city's education department said Wednesday.
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Children as young as 15 allowed to smoke on lunch break at Australian school
A school in Australia is permitting students as young as 15 to have a smoking break at lunch and other recess periods. Carolyn Blanden, principal at The Warakirri College in Sydney, said she believed that relaxed rules would encourage the children to keep attending school. “At my school you can come with bright blue hair and metal in your face,” Ms Blanden told Australia's Daily Telegraph. “And if you need to have a smoke, that's OK too.”
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HIV-Positive Track Coach Accused of Sexually Assaulting at Least 7 Boys in Maryland
An HIV-positive former Maryland school aide and track coach has been arrested on suspicion of sexually assaulting several students and recording some of the abuse on video, including on school property, authorities said. Carlos Deangelo Bell, 30, of Waldorf is accused of assaulting at least seven boys, mostly of middle school age, Charles County Sheriff's Office spokeswoman Diane Richardson said.
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Boys at Exeter academy wear skirts in uniform protest
Some 30 boys have worn skirts to school in protest at being told they were not allowed to wear shorts. The pupils from ISCA Academy in Exeter asked permission to modify their uniform because of the hot weather. One of the boys who took part in the protest said: "We're not allowed to wear shorts, and I'm not sitting in trousers all day, it's a bit hot."
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Why children's drawings matter
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Teachers disciplined after giving student ‘most likely to become a terrorist’ certificate
A group of teachers at a Houston area junior high school are being disciplined after officials said...
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