<feed version="0.3" xml:lang="en-us" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><generator>Plime/1</generator><title>Eighth graders get detentions for paying for lunch in pennies : ATOM 0.3</title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/"/><tagline>Eighth graders get detentions for paying for lunch in pennies : ATOM 0.3</tagline><author><name>www.plime.com</name><email>plime@plime.com</email></author><copyright>2009, www.plime.com.</copyright><modified>2009-11-30T02:51:46+01:00</modified><entry><title><![CDATA[Eighth graders get detentions for paying for lunch in pennies]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/52622/1/" /><id>52622</id><summary><![CDATA[Eighth graders get detentions for paying for lunch in pennies]]></summary><issued>2008-02-29T23:37:48+01:00</issued><modified>2008-02-29T23:37:48+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Good for them. Twenty-nine eighth graders at a Hunterdon County school received two days detention after they paid for their $2 lunches with pennies, officials said.]]></content></entry><hr size='1' class='line' noshade/><div style='padding-top:20px;height:300px;margin-right:10px;float:left;'><script type="text/javascript"><!--
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Their children were forced to eat their lunch on the floor.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[2nd Grade Kids Bring Guns to School for Show 'n Tell]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/world/l/97217/1/" /><id>97217</id><summary><![CDATA[2nd Grade Kids Bring Guns to School for Show 'n Tell]]></summary><issued>2009-03-02T12:26:17+01:00</issued><modified>2009-03-02T12:26:17+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[After a show and tell gone bad, two second graders at an Indiana elementary school were suspended for bringing guns to school. One student brought a toy cap gun while the other brought a small, loaded hand gun.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Parents protest segregation in school.]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/world/l/7483/1/" /><id>7483</id><summary><![CDATA[Parents protest segregation in school.]]></summary><issued>2006-12-12T11:10:53+01:00</issued><modified>2006-12-12T11:10:53+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Not for race, creed or color, but for hot or cold lunch.  Some people just have to protest for the sake of hearing their own voices.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Strip-Searching Teenage Girls In School]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/102263/1/" /><id>102263</id><summary><![CDATA[Strip-Searching Teenage Girls In School]]></summary><issued>2009-03-26T10:06:22+01:00</issued><modified>2009-03-26T10:06:22+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Savana Redding still remembers the clothes she had on &#8212; black stretch pants with butterfly patches and a pink T-shirt &#8212; the day school officials here forced her to strip six years ago. She was 13 and in eighth grade.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[School Lunch Lady Arrested for stealing $100,000.00 in Lunch Money]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/16312/1/" /><id>16312</id><summary><![CDATA[School Lunch Lady Arrested for stealing $100,000.00 in Lunch Money]]></summary><issued>2007-04-13T22:56:37+01:00</issued><modified>2007-04-13T22:56:37+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[And here, I thought only school bullies steal your lunch money! That's a lot of petty cash to rack up in just two years.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[School Shaves Head Of Boy With Mohawk]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/politics/l/118179/1/" /><id>118179</id><summary><![CDATA[School Shaves Head Of Boy With Mohawk]]></summary><issued>2009-05-29T01:35:50+01:00</issued><modified>2009-05-29T01:35:50+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Bartlett school officials said that was unacceptable, and sent him home.<br/>His parents trimmed the boy's hair to what they said resembled a military cut.<br/>The next time Derby went to school, the principal had a faculty member shave the boy's head.<br/>*I'm so tired of people telling us what do and how to live!*]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Im always a sucker for a good lightsaber battle]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/entertainment/l/51336/1/" /><id>51336</id><summary><![CDATA[Im always a sucker for a good lightsaber battle]]></summary><issued>2008-02-19T22:51:53+01:00</issued><modified>2008-02-19T22:51:53+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[These kids (in high school) completed this video of dueling it out with light sabers in the school halls for their final project. After it was made they got to show it to the whole school. <br/><br/>Its pretty impressive if you ask me. <br/>acting - A  video A+]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Flying Spaghetti Monster defeats Florida School Board]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/science/l/45463/1/" /><id>45463</id><summary><![CDATA[Flying Spaghetti Monster defeats Florida School Board]]></summary><issued>2007-12-29T10:10:18+01:00</issued><modified>2007-12-29T10:10:18+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Members of the Polk County School Board back down on their plans to add ID to the curriculum after being touched by His Noodly Appendage.<br/><br/>&quot;They've made us the laughingstock of the world,&quot;  board member Lofton told the Tampa Tribune.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[AHHH! School days are gonna be longer!]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/politics/l/16099/1/" /><id>16099</id><summary><![CDATA[AHHH! School days are gonna be longer!]]></summary><issued>2007-04-12T23:56:15+01:00</issued><modified>2007-04-12T23:56:15+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[In an attempt to solve a promblem with schools, Edward Kennedy,D-Mass proposed to make school days longer. The arguement is, does more hours of school equal more hours of productivity in school or more frustrated students and teachers?]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Sex Article Causes Stir at School]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/50489/1/" /><id>50489</id><summary><![CDATA[Sex Article Causes Stir at School]]></summary><issued>2008-02-13T21:24:05+01:00</issued><modified>2008-02-13T21:24:05+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[FRANKLIN, Ind. -- A First Amendment debate is raging at Franklin High School after an article in the school newspaper raised some eyebrows.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[NJ Woman Gets Her High School Diploma At Age 90]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/world/l/95660/1/" /><id>95660</id><summary><![CDATA[NJ Woman Gets Her High School Diploma At Age 90]]></summary><issued>2009-02-21T10:06:00+01:00</issued><modified>2009-02-21T10:06:00+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Estelle Manorek, 90, attended a day of classes at West Caldwell High School in West Caldwell, NJ. Manorek &quot;grew up the child of Polish immigrants in Jersey City during the Depression&quot; and never attended high school because she went to work at age 14 after her brother contracted polio.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Montreal student sounds alert over planned U.K. school attack]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/world/l/101351/1/" /><id>101351</id><summary><![CDATA[Montreal student sounds alert over planned U.K. school attack]]></summary><issued>2009-03-22T04:09:10+01:00</issued><modified>2009-03-22T04:09:10+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[&quot;I said, 'Hi, I'm a guy from Canada. There is someone about to set fire to a school.' At that point I didn't know the name of the school or the guy. I gave the police the address of the thread,&quot; said Neufeld.<br/>In less than an hour, police made an arrest.&quot;<br/>Yes, the internet is great!]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Atheist Sues To Prevent Son From Attending Catholic School]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/46121/1/" /><id>46121</id><summary><![CDATA[Atheist Sues To Prevent Son From Attending Catholic School]]></summary><issued>2008-01-05T10:40:36+01:00</issued><modified>2008-01-05T10:40:36+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[The parents involved in this case are divorced. David Ryan, the father, is an atheist. The mother is a Roman Catholic. Their son, who is in the eighth grade, attends a Catholic school in Oldham County.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Student Arrested After Cutting Food With Knife (in Florida!)]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/44267/1/" /><id>44267</id><summary><![CDATA[Student Arrested After Cutting Food With Knife (in Florida!)]]></summary><issued>2007-12-14T22:02:54+01:00</issued><modified>2007-12-14T22:02:54+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[An elementary student in Marion County was <b>ARRESTED</b> Thursday after school officials found her cutting food during lunch with a knife that she brought from home, police said.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[115 Pregnant Girls at Chicago High School]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/134836/1/" /><id>134836</id><summary><![CDATA[115 Pregnant Girls at Chicago High School]]></summary><issued>2009-10-18T04:10:54+01:00</issued><modified>2009-10-18T04:10:54+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[A total of 115 girls are pregnant at Chicago's Paul Robeson High School.  The entire school only has about 800 girls, so that means that 1 out of every 8 girl is pregnant.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[2,340 straight school days]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/world/l/119929/1/" /><id>119929</id><summary><![CDATA[2,340 straight school days]]></summary><issued>2009-06-03T15:52:37+01:00</issued><modified>2009-06-03T15:52:37+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[&quot;Every day, she has made it to school and stayed the entire day,&quot; Principal Tom Balitewicz said.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[School apologises for insulting report]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/weird/l/21050/1/" /><id>21050</id><summary><![CDATA[School apologises for insulting report]]></summary><issued>2007-05-22T13:09:44+01:00</issued><modified>2007-05-22T13:09:44+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[A school has had to apologise after a confidential report was found that called pupils &quot;away with the fairies&quot; and said one mother was &quot;quite rough&quot;.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Priority Should Be On High School, Not Preschool]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/10188/1/" /><id>10188</id><summary><![CDATA[Priority Should Be On High School, Not Preschool]]></summary><issued>2007-02-06T08:25:09+01:00</issued><modified>2007-02-06T08:25:09+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[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 at age 16 will be enhanced.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Manicurist Sells House/Car To Purchase School]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/world/l/122613/1/" /><id>122613</id><summary><![CDATA[Manicurist Sells House/Car To Purchase School]]></summary><issued>2009-06-13T16:39:05+01:00</issued><modified>2009-06-13T16:39:05+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Lidia Schaefer was troubled by what she saw when she visited her native Ethiopia. She saw children walking 3 hours to school. The final straw came when a young girl was killed by a hyena. She started putting aside her tips and part of her salary, even selling her home and car to pay for a school for the children of Ethiopia.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Student with gun puts Tacoma high school in lockdown]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/59914/1/" /><id>59914</id><summary><![CDATA[Student with gun puts Tacoma high school in lockdown]]></summary><issued>2008-04-28T15:50:52+01:00</issued><modified>2008-04-28T15:50:52+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Tahoma High School is in lockdown after a student allegedly brought a loaded handgun to school Monday.]]></content></entry></feed>