Does anyone really believe universal, publicly funded preschool will help improve high school test scores? Yet this is what the South Dakota Department of Education seems to be touting. Perhaps it is time to evaluate what is happening in our high schools instead of funding two or more years of public management of preschool-age children with the outside hope that their test scores and social lives... read full post picked by GKar975 2 years ago

Not too far from the site of the infamous Columbine school shooting, 6 students in a Colorado high school were held hostage at gunpoint. Motive still unclear as gunman committed suicide. As if kids need another reason to skip school. picked by ybne1else 2 years ago

Tahoma High School is in lockdown after a student allegedly brought a loaded handgun to school Monday. picked by muppet 7 months ago

Update: Later reports said victim and shooter were both students. picked by tomphoolry 2 years ago

Principals try to describe exactly what Grinding is, after a letter went home to parents about stopping grinding, only 3 tickets were sold for the dance.
This is a funny article. picked by bobiton65 2 years ago

FRANKLIN, Ind. -- A First Amendment debate is raging at Franklin High School after an article in the school newspaper raised some eyebrows. picked by tchengrox 10 months ago

Superintendent said "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"

So it's apparently OK to wear sleazy school supplied uniforms at a game, but not in math class... picked by Moe 3 months ago

Parry McCluer High School - at least for now - has declared that they will not bend to the Almighty PC God and remove the guns from its mascot. It currently uses a mascot that is a take off Yosemite Sam and despite others demands that the guns are offensive, 50 years of tradition trumps those whiny cries. http://usera.imagecave.com/HariSeldon/Plime/mccluermascot.jpg forumimage('http:/... read full post picked by 2manyusernames 1 year ago

Diddy made an appearance at a Philadelphia high school. He advised the students to 'work hard and stay in school'. picked by musicgirldani 2 years ago

The Toronto District School Board has approved an "operational model" for an Afrocentric school intended to help struggling black students in the city's education system. Critics say the decision smacks of segregation. picked by mitzuzake 10 months ago

A school has had to apologise after a confidential report was found that called pupils "away with the fairies" and said one mother was "quite rough". picked by TheStep 2 years ago

A NJ high school, Pequannock High, now mandates getting checked for alcohol at dances and other social events picked by 2manyusernames 11 months ago

A woman left her three-year-old daughter at a central Queensland school to teach her a lesson after she was naughty. The girl, who cannot be named for legal reasons, was found wandering alone around Glenmore State School in Rockhampton's north just before 10am. picked by AutumnLotus 1 year ago

A call about a possible weapon at a middle school prompted police to put armed officers on rooftops, close nearby streets and lock down the school. All over a giant burrito. picked by deepchill 1 year ago

The School Committee voted unanimously last night to allow contraceptives to be distributed at the high school after a report of a pregnancy pact pushed Gloucester into the spotlight earlier this year. picked by Bornbad 2 months ago

Scores of Indian children attending a school located in a graveyard were having recurring nightmares about ghosts and have appealed to authorities to shift them from the site. picked by AutumnLotus 1 year ago

What to do when a school just spins out of control. One solution can be to close the school for a year and then start over with new staff, and only accepting freshmen in the first year. The kids also feel they are part of something special. picked by SkandarGraun 6 months ago

Massachusetts school bans "unsupervised chase games" for fear that school will be held liable if kids get hurt. Parents should sue school anyway for turning their kids into wusses. picked by Wingnut 2 years ago

South Dakota is involved in a pilot program that will bribe high school students to pass Advanced Placement tests. picked by SoothSayer 9 months ago

"Traci Turner said she filed the lawsuit on behalf of her son, Chase Jackson, who caught a bat at school last September and played with it for two hours."

What on earth is a high school kid doing with a bat for 2 hours? picked by arsphidius 5 months ago