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OPINION

May 15, 2011 3:14 PM CDT

High School English: A Waste of Time?

No one wants to teach grammar because it's not fun: Kim Brooks

(Newser) - Sometimes, while Kim Brooks is grading essays by her college composition students, she cries. "Not real tears, exactly—more a spontaneous, guttural sob, often loud and unpleasant enough to startle my husband or children," she writes in Salon . Why? Because many of these students "simply ... cannot write....

High Schooler to Michele Bachmann: Let's Debate Constitution and US History

High Schooler to Bachmann:
Let's Debate History

High Schooler to Bachmann: Let's Debate History

Teen calls her grasp of civics 'grossly distorted'

(Newser) - Concerned that Michele Bachmann’s take on US civics is “factually incorrect, inaccurately applied or grossly distorted,” a New Jersey teen has challenged the Minnesota representative to a debate on US history and the Constitution, the Minnesota Independent reports. “The frequent inability you have shown to accurately...

31 Teens
Suspended
After Pranking
Rival Schools

May 14, 2011 5:34 PM CDT

31 Teens Suspended After Pranking Rival Schools

Said acts, done in the name of the annual scavenger hunt, involved poop

(Newser) - Pioneer High School's annual scavenger hunt sounded like good, clean fun. Emphasis "sounded like." AnnArbor.com reports that 31 of the 250 students who participated in the hunt have been suspended for committing such offenses as defecating on the athletic fields of two rival Ann Arbor high...

High School Suspends Students in Fight Club

Junior High Suspends Students in Fight Club

May 11, 2011 4:33 PM CDT

Junior High Suspends Students in Fight Club

At least eight youths participated, with rules and YouTube videos

(Newser) - Fight Club lives on. Eight junior high boys have been suspended from their school in Naperville, Illinois, for running their version of a fight club, reports the Chicago Tribune . It seemed pretty well thought-out: The kids has safety words and rules, and even posted fights to YouTube. (Police have taken...

Teen Fakes Pregnancy, Fools Family, School

Only a few knew about 6-month experiment

(Newser) - Month after month, as her baby bump grew, fellow high schoolers talked behind Gaby Rodriguez’s back—until they found out she’d never been pregnant at all. Instead, the 17-year-old faked a pregnancy, complete with a wire-and-cotton belly, as a social experiment at her school in Washington, the Yakima ...

Prom Cut Short Over
Bad Pot Brownies

Apr 5, 2011 10:00 AM CDT

Prom Cut Short Over Bad Pot Brownies

Four students got kind of a harsh buzz

(Newser) - The pot brownies that got passed around at a Massachusetts high school's junior prom did not agree with everyone. Four students got "violently ill" at the event last week, WCVB Boston reports, causing the dance to be cut short. Police don't know exactly how the students got their hands...

Did Texas Baseball Players Kill Chickens to Win Game?

Mar 31, 2011 10:23 AM CDT

Did Texas Baseball Players Kill Chickens to Win Game?

An alleged tale of superstitions gone wrong

(Newser) - The Western Hills High baseball team wasn’t doing so well—so, allegedly, two of its players sacrificed chickens on the field in an effort to improve the team’s performance. The bizarre ritual was referenced in Major League, although in that movie, the struggling player sacrificed a bucket of...

Students Fight to Keep
School's Paddling Policy

Mar 28, 2011 9:11 PM CDT

Students Fight to Keep School's Paddling Policy

Archbishop wants to do away with it

(Newser) - There is apparently one Catholic school in the country that still uses corporal punishment—and students are fighting to keep it that way. That's right, keep. Some 500 students, parents, and others tied to New Orleans' St. Augustine High School marched on Archbishop Gregory Aymond's offices on Saturday. Aymond is...

Good Grades in High School
May Mean Good Health Later

Dec 10, 2010 4:01 PM CST

Good Grades in High School May Mean Good Health Later

Study finds correlation over six-decade study

(Newser) - Being a top student in high school has obvious benefits, mainly with regard to getting into a good college. But being a top high school performer might have more lasting effects: it leads to better health all throughout life, a new study suggests. Researchers from the University of Wisconsin tracked...

Whipped Students Sue Coach

Nov 12, 2010 4:19 AM CST

Whipped Students Sue Coach

Lawsuit: Basketball errors were punished with belt

(Newser) - Three Jackson, Miss., high school students who say they were whipped with a weightlifting belt for "failing to run basketball plays correctly" are taking their coach to court. Murrah High School coach Marlon Dorsey says he did paddle the students, but he did it to "save these young...

Teen Suspended for
Bringing Horse
to School

Nov 2, 2010 4:08 PM CDT

Teen Suspended for Bringing Horse to School

Superintendent praises creativity, but no animals allowed on school grounds

(Newser) - Good idea: Dressing up as a knight to celebrate your school’s spirit week. Bad idea: Riding an actual horse to school as part of the costume. Dan DePaolis, 17, was suspended from his Massachusetts high school when school officials found him in the parking lot on the horse; a...

Cheerleader Booted for Refusing to Cheer Attacker

Oct 28, 2010 3:43 AM CDT

Cheerleader Booted for Refusing to Cheer Attacker

Teen's duty was to 'support athletes,' court rules

(Newser) - A former cheerleader will continue to press legal action against her Texas high school for booting her off her squad when she refused to cheer for the star athlete who she says sexually assaulted her. In addition, when she complained about harassment by her attacker's friends as she entered the...

French Protesters Block Airport

Oct 21, 2010 9:38 AM CDT

French Protesters Block Airport

Lady Gaga cancels pair of concerts in furor over retirement age

(Newser) - Hundreds of workers barricaded Marseille’s main airport for three hours this morning, furious over today's Senate vote on raising France’s retirement age to 62. Meanwhile, protesters used vehicles to block highways and students blockaded a Paris high school. A quarter of French gas stations are dry amid the...

Connecticut Cheerleaders
Want to Show Less Skin

Oct 5, 2010 2:50 PM CDT

Connecticut Cheerleaders Want to Show Less Skin

Central High School's girls want to cover up their midriffs

(Newser) - Cheerleaders at one Connecticut high school have taken a stand. Bridgeport's Central High School squad presented its case to the city's board of education last week (while in uniform), saying that its skimpy midriff-showing outfits were not appropriate and hurt self-esteem. The city athletic director agreed to purchase black body...

Teen Sex Doesn't Lead to Bad Grades

Aug 15, 2010 3:56 PM CDT

Teen Sex Doesn't Lead to Bad Grades

...so long as the young lovers are in a committed relationship

(Newser) - There's good news for parents who worry that their teens' sex lives will hurt their changes of getting into Harvard: A provocative new study released today has found that teens in committed relationships do no better or worse in school than those who don't have sex. The same isn't true...

Pastor Arrested for Protesting School's Demon Mascot

Aug 9, 2010 4:44 PM CDT

Pastor Arrested for Protesting School's Demon Mascot

Georgia cleric demonstrates against satanic imagery

(Newser) - A Georgia pastor was arrested today for protesting a high school's mascot, the Macon Telegraph reports. Donald Crosby and about 30 others gathered outside Warner Robins High School, whose mascot is a demon. But the picketers didn't have a permit to protest, and Crosby was arrested when he refused to...

School Used Me
as 'Rape Bait': Girl

Aug 5, 2010 2:31 PM CDT

School Used Me as 'Rape Bait': Girl

Court documents from lawsuit tell disturbing tale

(Newser) - A high school student who says she was raped on school grounds claims she was raped a second time—after her disbelieving principal used her as “bait” to catch the boy involved. On Feb. 4, 2008, the alleged victim told her teacher about the first rape, and claimed the...

Later School Start Time
Means Happier Students

Jul 5, 2010 4:10 PM CDT

Later School Start Time Means Happier Students

Adolescents need lots of sleep, have odd body clocks

(Newser) - Starting high school classes just 30 minutes later leads to marked improvement in students' moods and even their overall health, CNN reports . Teens need 8½ to 9¼ hours of sleep a night, and biological changes associated with adolescence mean they naturally fall asleep later than younger kids. In a small...

Obama Puts Kid to Sleep
at Commencement

POMP AND NAPPYTIME

Jun 8, 2010 6:50 AM CDT

Obama Puts Kid to Sleep at Commencement

Kalamazoo Central student dozes through reward for winning video

(Newser) - Barack Obama yesterday presented Kalamazoo Central High School's class of 2010 with their reward for winning his "Race to the Top" video competition: a commencement address from him. Thousands of students submitted inspiring videos about their schools; you can see Kalamazoo's over at the Huffington Post . Or cut to...

4-Day School Week
Gains Traction

Jun 4, 2010 2:25 PM CDT

4-Day School Week Gains Traction

Some districts see performance rise, others worry about student stress

(Newser) - For one cash-strapped Georgia school district, instituting a 4-day school week was a last resort—cut a day, or fire 39 teachers. But besides saving money on operating costs, school officials say, the 4-day week has boosted test scores and increased attendance for both students and teachers, leading to more...