<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?><xml><meta><title>The Question posed at NY High School prompts protest : XML WIDGET</title><link>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/</link><description>You can use this XML spec to create a desktop widget or other application (i.e. Flash visualization). 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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.]]></description><comments>1</comments><score>13</score><crdate>2/6/2007 8:25:09 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2007-02-06T08:25:09+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>6707</id><url>http://www.plime.com/sports/l/6707/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Courts rule that boy can't play on girl gym team]]></title><description><![CDATA[There have, of course, been numerous successful lawsuits forcing schools to allow girls to play on boy's sports team when there is no girl team to play for and there is nothing wrong with that. However, the courts don't want it to work both ways.]]></description><comments>2</comments><score>15</score><crdate>11/30/2006 1:29:40 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2006-11-30T13:29:40+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>49137</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/49137/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Girl Stabbed 7 Times In High School Hallway]]></title><description><![CDATA[A 14-year-old girl was stabbed seven times in a crowded hallway at Silver Creek High School as her classmates watched in horror.]]></description><comments>2</comments><score>255</score><crdate>2/1/2008 9:36:18 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-02-01T09:36:18+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>40909</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/40909/1/</url><title><![CDATA[British school sends Sikh girl home for wearing a Kara]]></title><description><![CDATA[A Sikh teenager has been sent back from her school for wearing a Kara (steel bracelet), one of the religious symbols which reminds a Sikh of his or her bondage to the Guru.]]></description><comments>1</comments><score>169</score><crdate>11/7/2007 9:20:57 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2007-11-07T09:20:57+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>37784</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/37784/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Woman left 'naughty' daughter at school]]></title><description><![CDATA[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.]]></description><comments>3</comments><score>220</score><crdate>10/9/2007 9:48:08 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2007-10-09T09:48:08+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>59914</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/59914/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Student with gun puts Tacoma high school in lockdown]]></title><description><![CDATA[Tahoma High School is in lockdown after a student allegedly brought a loaded handgun to school Monday.]]></description><comments>0</comments><score>51</score><crdate>4/28/2008 3:50:52 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-04-28T15:50:52+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>1392</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/1392/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Hostage in High School]]></title><description><![CDATA[Not too far from the site of the infamous Columbine school shooting, 6 students in a Colorado high school were held hostage at gunpoint. 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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+]]></description><comments>4</comments><score>217</score><crdate>2/19/2008 10:51:53 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-02-19T22:51:53+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>50489</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/50489/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Sex Article Causes Stir at School]]></title><description><![CDATA[FRANKLIN, Ind. -- A First Amendment debate is raging at Franklin High School after an article in the school newspaper raised some eyebrows.]]></description><comments>7</comments><score>279</score><crdate>2/13/2008 9:24:05 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-02-13T21:24:05+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>8984</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/8984/1/</url><title><![CDATA[High School Principal's try to stop &quot;FREAKING&quot; and &quot;Grinding&quot; at dances]]></title><description><![CDATA[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. <br/>This is a funny article.]]></description><comments>1</comments><score>13</score><crdate>1/13/2007 1:53:34 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2007-01-13T13:53:34+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>8479</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/8479/1/</url><title><![CDATA[1 person dead in Washington state high school shooting.]]></title><description><![CDATA[Update: Later reports said victim and shooter were both students.]]></description><comments>3</comments><score>102</score><crdate>1/3/2007 1:53:55 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2007-01-03T13:53:55+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>17317</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/17317/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Girl Attacks Classmate With Medieval Weapon]]></title><description><![CDATA[A fight at an Indiana high school turned into a medieval attack when a freshman girl hit another student and tried to hit a teacher with an uncommon weapon.]]></description><comments>0</comments><score>93</score><crdate>4/21/2007 11:05:34 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2007-04-21T11:05:34+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>48888</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/48888/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Toronto trustees approve Afrocentric school]]></title><description><![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.]]></description><comments>0</comments><score>59</score><crdate>1/30/2008 10:40:21 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-01-30T10:40:21+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>64882</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/64882/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Teen charged with crime for bringing pony to school]]></title><description><![CDATA[Westport police said in a written statement that the girl had ignored a security guard and earlier warnings not to bring the animal on school property.]]></description><comments>2</comments><score>220</score><crdate>6/9/2008 11:43:57 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-06-09T23:43:57+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>21050</id><url>http://www.plime.com/weird/l/21050/1/</url><title><![CDATA[School apologises for insulting report]]></title><description><![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;.]]></description><comments>0</comments><score>49</score><crdate>5/22/2007 1:09:44 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2007-05-22T13:09:44+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>7483</id><url>http://www.plime.com/world/l/7483/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Parents protest segregation in school.]]></title><description><![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.]]></description><comments>10</comments><score>74</score><crdate>12/12/2006 11:10:53 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2006-12-12T11:10:53+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>504</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/504/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Diddy Advises High School Students]]></title><description><![CDATA[Diddy made an appearance at a Philadelphia high school.  He advised the students to 'work hard and stay in school'.]]></description><comments>0</comments><score>28</score><crdate>9/19/2006 1:33:28 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2006-09-19T13:33:28+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>53273</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/53273/1/</url><title><![CDATA[School's bizarre ploy to beat internet perverts - masking pupils with Acid House smileys]]></title><description><![CDATA[A primary school has been accused of being alarmist for covering up the faces of pupils on its website &#8211; apparently to protect them from paedophiles. Bizarrely, the images have been altered with the type of smiley faces popular during the Acid House dance craze of the 1980s. The decision was taken at Cann Hall Primary School in Clacton, Essex.]]></description><comments>16</comments><score>377</score><crdate>3/6/2008 12:03:17 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-03-06T00:03:17+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>48540</id><url>http://www.plime.com/science/l/48540/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Bus Driver Dies While Taking Kids To School]]></title><description><![CDATA[A bus driver who lost consciousness while transporting students to school and later died is being fondly remembered while a 12-year-old girl who was her passenger is being recognized for her quick thinking.]]></description><comments>1</comments><score>210</score><crdate>1/27/2008 9:38:49 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-01-27T09:38:49+01:00</atomdate></link></items></xml>