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Campaigners hail school decision to let pupils choose gender identity
Campaigners have welcomed a decision by a private girls’ school to allow students to use boys’ names and wear boys’ clothes should they wish under a new “gender identity protocol”. St Paul’s girls’ school in west London, whose former pupils include the MP Harriet Harman and the actor Rachel Weisz, will now consider requests from students from the age of 16 to go through a formal process to be known within the school either as boys or as gender-neutral.
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Meditation is Replacing Detention in Baltimore’s Public Schools, and the Students Are Thriving
By now, most people are familiar with the term “school-to-prison pipeline,” the description of a system that funnels troubled students through disciplinary program after program. Detentions, suspensions, and often expulsions further aggravate many students’ already difficult lives, and send them “back to the origin of their angst and unhappiness—their home environments or their neighborhoods,” writes Carla Amurao for PBS’ Tavis Smiley Reports.
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School children protest after being told they can't go to the bathroom
Police were called when a protest erupted at a school in North Yorkshire after students were limited to two toilet breaks a day. Officers were forced to be called in after up to 40 students took to the playing fields on Friday morning protesting the controversial new rule at Bedale High School. Parents have criticised the school after being informed the 580 pupils were only allowed a bathroom break between 11.05am and 11.25am, and 12.25pm and 12.45pm.
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Principal accuses Wisconsin girl of selling sex toys at school
A Racine, Wisconsin family says their principal accused their child of selling sex toys at school. The 12-year-old girl's father has been trying to clear his daughter's name ever since she was suspended for three days from Trinity Lutheran School on Geneva Street in Racine. Parents may recognize the toy in question. They are called "water snake wigglies." The girl claims she had permission from a teacher to sell the children's toys.
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Mom’s Facebook post goes viral after 4-year-old suspended for shell casing
An Illinois mother is speaking out after administrators suspended her son for bringing a shell casing from a fired bullet to preschool. Hunter, 4, had been at the preschool for about a year, she said, and the incident brought him tears. From his perspective, he found something he thought was pretty neat and he took it to school Tuesday to show his friends, his mother, Kristy Jackson, said. She said neither she nor Hunter's father knew that he had found the shell.
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Trump is greenlighting the harassment of transgender kids
In the weeks since President Donald Trump’s administration revoked federal guidance aimed at protecting transgender students, school has been a nightmare for 17-year-old Lyle Howard. “Ever since Trump rescinded the guidance, I’ve been harassed and bullied and yelled at in the halls,” said Howard, a sophomore at Ozark High School in southwest Missouri. “I have been declared not a person. I am an ‘it.’”
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These high school journalists investigated a new principal’s credentials. Days later, she resigned.
In a story published Friday, a high school newspaper staff questioned the legitimacy of the recently hired principal's degrees and of her work as an education consultant.
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Wondering What Happened to Your Class Valedictorian? Not Much, Research Shows
What becomes of high school valedictorians? It’s what every parent wishes their teenager to be. Mom says study hard and you’ll do well. And very often Mom is right. But not always. Karen Arnold, a researcher at Boston College, followed 81 high school valedictorians and salutatorians from graduation onward to see what becomes of those who lead the academic pack. Of the 95 percent who went on to graduate college, their average GPA was 3.6...
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On the last day of school, Anchorage principals hand layoff notices to 220 teachers
When MiCall Sweet read an email last Friday that said nearly all first-year and some second-year teachers with the Anchorage School District would receive layoff notices on the last day of school, she cried. "I've been crying on and off since," said Sweet, a 24-year-old first-grade teacher and single mother who was hired by the district in August 2016. The last day of school in Anchorage was Wednesday and for many of the district's more than 45,000 students it meant assemblies, field trips, parades and games.
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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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Why children's drawings matter
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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I Hate My Kids: The Weakest Link
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