Paula Reed Ward at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reports that a plan by a school principal to catch students having sex at school went terribly wrong: A former Upper St. Clair High School student who already claimed she had been raped once was raped again on school property after school officials used her as bait in [...]
A second-grader in Providence, RI was told by his teacher that the hat he would not be allowed to wear the hat he made for hat day. According to the AP: Christan Morales said her son just wanted to honor American troops when he wore a hat to school decorated with an American flag and [...]
Back in 2003, the U.S. Department of Education under Clinton published guidelines for public school teachers who were trying to be on the right side of the law when it came to — among other things– kids portraying Jesus in their art work. (Don’t worry. It’s constitutional.) You wouldn’t think we’d have teachers objecting to [...]
No one can argue with the all-out niftyness of elementary-school kids getting to meet a real rocket scientist. Unless, that is, if only the black students get to go. That’s what happened in Ann Arbor. James Taranto hits the nail on the head: But why only black youngsters? We are forever hearing that white Americans [...]
Apparently a Bay-area school thinks American patriotism and freedom of expression are suspended on Cinco de Mayo. According to the local NBC station, the locals are 93% furious about the school’s action. File under Schools Behaving Badly. Update: Read the great analysis at Pajamas Media. Update: (H/T Instapundit) The Volokh Conspiracy looks at this from [...]