<feed version="0.3" xml:lang="en-us" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><generator>Plime/1</generator><title>Hundreds of Students Suspended For Dress Code Violations : ATOM 0.3</title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/education/"/><tagline>Hundreds of Students Suspended For Dress Code Violations : ATOM 0.3</tagline><author><name>www.plime.com</name><email>plime@plime.com</email></author><copyright>2008, www.plime.com.</copyright><modified>2008-10-13T15:14:37+01:00</modified><entry><title><![CDATA[Hundreds of Students Suspended For Dress Code Violations]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/60834/1/" /><id>60834</id><summary><![CDATA[Hundreds of Students Suspended For Dress Code Violations]]></summary><issued>2008-05-06T15:40:52+01:00</issued><modified>2008-05-06T15:40:52+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[&quot;If they say this t-shirt is wrong for him to wear to school then why do they sell t-shirts to the students to wear to school?,&quot; said parent James Fuller, Sr.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Parents ask schools for simpler dress code]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/17315/1/" /><id>17315</id><summary><![CDATA[Parents ask schools for simpler dress code]]></summary><issued>2007-04-21T10:58:44+01:00</issued><modified>2007-04-21T10:58:44+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Parents want the Kennedale, Texas, Independent School District to simplify the standardized dress code to allow for shorter skirts and other changes.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Ohio high school rules their own cheerleader outifts violate dress code]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/sports/l/73562/1/" /><id>73562</id><summary><![CDATA[Ohio high school rules their own cheerleader outifts violate dress code]]></summary><issued>2008-08-25T18:41:51+01:00</issued><modified>2008-08-25T18:41:51+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Superintendent said &quot;The skirts the cheerleaders wear are very short, and very tight...You want to have students wear appropriate clothing during the educational period of the day, and then after school, wear the appropriate clothing for the event&quot;  <br/><br/>So it's apparently OK to wear sleazy school supplied uniforms at a game, but not in math class...]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Statistics show school dress code (and no TAG playing) straightens out students]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/33701/1/" /><id>33701</id><summary><![CDATA[Statistics show school dress code (and no TAG playing) straightens out students]]></summary><issued>2007-08-30T01:09:41+01:00</issued><modified>2007-08-30T01:09:41+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[or...&quot;Better Judgment Through Democratic Reforms&quot;<br/>I hate Liberals.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Students Who Support Demoted Principal Suspended (I was in this)]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/48003/1/" /><id>48003</id><summary><![CDATA[Students Who Support Demoted Principal Suspended (I was in this)]]></summary><issued>2008-01-22T20:47:59+01:00</issued><modified>2008-01-22T20:47:59+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[I wouldn't normally post a news story like this, but I was part of this. We got a letter in the mail Friday saying that our principal was demoted and they said nothing more. So all the students got together and said to wear all black, and to sit in intersection of the math and science hallways in our school before our first hour, and dont move.<br/>I was one of the people there for the sit-in (no I wasnt one of the suspended). Around 200 kids showed up, and for such a small school, it was incredible. <br/><br/>The case is under review, and from what I hear (not a student rumor, this is from a teacher) is that one of the people in another high leadership position is the person that got him in trouble, and they never saw eye to eye.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Back To School With The Internet]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/technology/l/1772/1/" /><id>1772</id><summary><![CDATA[Back To School With The Internet]]></summary><issued>2006-10-01T10:08:19+01:00</issued><modified>2006-10-01T10:08:19+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[With the start of the new school year, many teachers and students are seeking new products and technologies to help them. With the increase of teachers using blogs and wikis, and students utilizing online tools, the demand for easier and more efficient ways of learning is on the rise. This site consolodates some of the helpful online products and services that can help students, teachers and administrators alike.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Middle School Teacher Suspended for 'Obama Frat' Spat]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/politics/l/78795/1/" /><id>78795</id><summary><![CDATA[Middle School Teacher Suspended for 'Obama Frat' Spat]]></summary><issued>2008-10-06T15:28:03+01:00</issued><modified>2008-10-06T15:28:03+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[A Kansas City, Mo., middle school teacher was suspended for insubordination after he posted a video of his students chanting Barack Obama slogans on YouTube.<br/><br/><i>Update to this:</i> <div style='display:block;width:250px;text-overflow:clip;overflow:hidden;word-wrap:break-word;'><a class="plime" href="/redir.p?http://www.plime.com/politics/l/78641/1/" rel="nofollow">http://www.plime.com/politics/l/78641/1/</a></div>]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Toronto trustees approve Afrocentric school]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/48888/1/" /><id>48888</id><summary><![CDATA[Toronto trustees approve Afrocentric school]]></summary><issued>2008-01-30T10:40:21+01:00</issued><modified>2008-01-30T10:40:21+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[The Toronto District School Board has approved an &quot;operational model&quot; for an Afrocentric school intended to help struggling black students in the city's education system. Critics say the decision smacks of segregation.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Fourth grader suspended for using broken pencil sharpener]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/76444/1/" /><id>76444</id><summary><![CDATA[Fourth grader suspended for using broken pencil sharpener]]></summary><issued>2008-09-16T18:21:48+01:00</issued><modified>2008-09-16T18:21:48+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[A 10-year-old boy has been suspended from school for having something most students carry in their supply boxes: a pencil sharpener. The problem was his sharpener had broken, but he decided to use it anyway. <br/><br/>Chalk another one up to zero-tolerance, zero common sense.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[ Student suspended for buying Skittles at school]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/53989/1/" /><id>53989</id><summary><![CDATA[ Student suspended for buying Skittles at school]]></summary><issued>2008-03-12T13:31:34+01:00</issued><modified>2008-03-12T13:31:34+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Thank GOD we have the school system to save us from certain hellfire and damnation.  I think this kid should probably hang.  As it was he got off WAY light - only a suspension and forced to resign his class Vice President office.  Him and Elliot Spitzer can swap stories now.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Pig Let Loose In School]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/62325/1/" /><id>62325</id><summary><![CDATA[Pig Let Loose In School]]></summary><issued>2008-05-19T08:06:15+01:00</issued><modified>2008-05-19T08:06:15+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Pupils smuggled a live piglet into school as an end-of-term prank &#8211; and let it loose during a school inspection.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Marlboro Sponsors School Uniforms]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/74705/1/" /><id>74705</id><summary><![CDATA[Marlboro Sponsors School Uniforms]]></summary><issued>2008-09-03T14:18:07+01:00</issued><modified>2008-09-03T14:18:07+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Students in Asia are required to wear school uniforms and it was obviously an opportunity companies like Vodafone, Shell, Ferrari, and even cigarette company Marlboro, just couldn&#8217;t pass on.<br/><br/>Yep, cigarette advertising on school kids, FTW!]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Students dumb, but feeling good about it]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/42426/1/" /><id>42426</id><summary><![CDATA[Students dumb, but feeling good about it]]></summary><issued>2007-11-24T21:50:20+01:00</issued><modified>2007-11-24T21:50:20+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Without any responsibility laid on the shoulders of the apathetic and the lazy, their claims that &quot;they don't need to learn any of this stuff for the real world&quot; are becoming reality in our school system, while the rest of the world excels. Without consequences, America is becoming a country of no consequence at all.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Diddy Advises High School Students]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/504/1/" /><id>504</id><summary><![CDATA[Diddy Advises High School Students]]></summary><issued>2006-09-19T13:33:28+01:00</issued><modified>2006-09-19T13:33:28+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Diddy made an appearance at a Philadelphia high school.  He advised the students to 'work hard and stay in school'.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Teens Charged After Breaking into School to change grades]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/66073/1/" /><id>66073</id><summary><![CDATA[Teens Charged After Breaking into School to change grades]]></summary><issued>2008-06-20T12:09:19+01:00</issued><modified>2008-06-20T12:09:19+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Two Orange County, California, teenagers have been charged with breaking into high school offices and using stolen usernames and passwords to change lackluster grades to A's, both 18, are facing multiple felony charges.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[School Bans Anti-Homophobia Shirt]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/64863/1/" /><id>64863</id><summary><![CDATA[School Bans Anti-Homophobia Shirt]]></summary><issued>2008-06-09T18:14:21+01:00</issued><modified>2008-06-09T18:14:21+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Ten grade 8 students were forced to remove their anti-homophobia T-Shirts after the school principal, deemed them to be offensive. saying the word &#8220;gay&#8221; was potentially offensive to homosexuals.<br/>Hmm&#8230; Do you think the concept of context is taught in the school&#8217;s curriculum?]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Ill. teens suspended over T-shirts]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/37523/1/" /><id>37523</id><summary><![CDATA[Ill. teens suspended over T-shirts]]></summary><issued>2007-10-06T09:38:22+01:00</issued><modified>2007-10-06T09:38:22+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Around 50 students showed up to school during spirit week wearing red T-shirts that read &quot;Seniors .08&quot; on the front and &quot;Don't blow it&quot; on the back, playing off the states legal blood alcohol limit.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Calif. school defends DWI shock tactics]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/science/l/65236/1/" /><id>65236</id><summary><![CDATA[Calif. school defends DWI shock tactics]]></summary><issued>2008-06-12T18:26:34+01:00</issued><modified>2008-06-12T18:26:34+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Students were told classmates had died in car wrecks &#8212; they hadn't.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Alabama School Warned Hours Before Tornado]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/12183/1/" /><id>12183</id><summary><![CDATA[Alabama School Warned Hours Before Tornado]]></summary><issued>2007-03-04T03:13:58+01:00</issued><modified>2007-03-04T03:13:58+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Administrators at a high school where eight students died in a tornado were warned about severe weather nearly three hours before the twister struck.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Teacher is shot by husband in front of students]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/49756/1/" /><id>49756</id><summary><![CDATA[Teacher is shot by husband in front of students]]></summary><issued>2008-02-07T15:06:01+01:00</issued><modified>2008-02-07T15:06:01+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[A teacher&#8217;s husband charged into her fifth-grade classroom Thursday morning, then stabbed and shot her as students watched, police said. He was later found dead in his home after a standoff with police.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[School has beef with vegan teacher]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/36129/1/" /><id>36129</id><summary><![CDATA[School has beef with vegan teacher]]></summary><issued>2007-09-19T06:14:07+01:00</issued><modified>2007-09-19T06:14:07+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[An Illinois teacher has been suspended for preaching the virtues of his vegan lifestyle to his middle school students.]]></content></entry></feed>