Students Arrested For Protesting Dress Code

Students at McLoughlin Middle School are learning that civil disobedience comes at a cost. In the past two weeks, four eighth-grade boys have been arrested and charged with misdemeanors for leading protests against the school’s dress code. About 20 more students have been suspended.
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Internship position available for helping people

I don't normally do stuff like this, but I've been talking with the person who runs EQI.org, and he's really cool. He needs some people to help him help other people though... From his website: The EQI.org webite is looking for young atheists, agnostics and writers to be part of its Learn, Work, Write, and Travel (LWWT) Internship/ work experience. The LWWT opportunity is based on the information and ideas presented on the EQI.org website. If you agree with what you see on EQI.org and on School-Survival.net you could be the right person.
More info and contact details
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16-year-old finds way to make plastic decompose faster

Getting ordinary plastic bags to rot away like banana peels would be an environmental dream come true. After all, we produce 500 billion a year worldwide and they take up to 1,000 years to decompose. They take up space in landfills, litter our streets and parks, pollute the oceans and kill the animals that eat them. Now a Waterloo teenager has found a way to make plastic bags degrade faster -- in three months, he figures.
Forum Post: Teen respectability: +1
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12 Funny Reasons Why School is Good for You

New page in the Comic Relief section: 12 Funny Reasons Why School is Good for You. It's a parody of the various reasons people give as to why school is good for you. If you like it, add it to as many social bookmarking sites as you can (digg, del.icio.us, stumbleupon, etc). :)

Students in New York collectively refuse to take test

New York 8th-Graders Boycott Practice Exam But Teacher May Get Fired. The students said that they did it because they’ve been taught critical thinking and that they’ve decided that this kind of testing juggernaut has to be challenged.
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Student Sent Home For '69' T-Shirt

A Billerica, Mass., mother is furious after her 14-year-old daughter was suspended for a day from her middle school for wearing a T-shirt that said "SOPHOMORE 69."
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Acceptance of Homeschooling Grows but Myths Persist

Survey: On a five-point scale regarding the overall quality of education, public school received a 3 and homeschooling a 3.14... yet on the question, “Which is most likely to prepare students for life after graduation?”, 42 percent chose public school and just 6 percent chose homeschooling.
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School Confiscates Cell Phones After Nude Photos of Junior High Girls Circulate

It all started when two Santa Fe Junior High School students took nude photos of themselves and sent them to their boyfriends. The boyfriends forwarded the photos to others, who in turn forwarded them again, he said.
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New poems: "Stiff" and "Programmed For Success"

2 new poems: Stiff and Programmed For Success

Youth is not a fucking test!

There's a lot of things that contribute to the problems of youth, but one of the worst things is the delusion that your youth is a test, a training period for the real world. You aren't in training for life, you're living life! So celebrate youth, and forget the fucking delusion that it's nothing more than preparation for the future. Youth is meaningful, your daily life is just as meaningful as an adult's.
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Woman Accused of Driving Girl to Suicide Is Indicted

In a highly unusual use of a federal law generally employed in computer fraud cases, a federal grand jury here on Thursday indicted a Missouri woman accused of using a phony online identity to trick and taunt a 13-year-old girl, who committed suicide in response to the cyberbaiting.
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Poll: Advertising Experiment

I want to run an experiment that might bring reasonable amounts of people to SS, but I need to know how many people are willing to participate.
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Man jailed when daughter fails to get diploma

A man ordered by a judge to make sure his daughter hit the books has found himself in jail because she failed to earn a high school equivalency diploma (GED).
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why I'm a teacher and why I'm here

There's a new teacher on the forums :)
Quote: So how did I get into this madhouse of education? and why the heck do I stay? I'm one of those idealistic sods that still whole-heartedly believe they can make a difference in this profession, oh and I love learning and I want to share that with other people.

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American kids, dumber than dirt

Warning: The next generation might just be the biggest pile of idiots in U.S. history.
American kids, dumber than dirt

High school locked down after 'miscommunication'

School locked down after man with gun spotted. Man with gun turned out to be World War II veteran with a plugged rifle coming to speak at a social studies class.
High school locked down after 'miscommunication'

Teacher allegedly burned crosses onto students' arms

The Mount Vernon public-school science teacher who won't remove his personal Bible from the top of his desk also is accused of conducting a religious “healing session” during school and burning crosses onto students' arms.
Teacher allegedly burned crosses onto students' arms

Somebody made a fair point in IRC

<+Stratovarius> this site has plenty of infos about how school blows and the alternatives
<+Stratovarius> but nothing about how to get a job that doesn't suck/get money

We are now working on it.
Somebody made a fair point in IRC

New stories

2 new stories added: Sarah's Challenge, by wadekarl... and The Lockdown's End by Rebelnerd. Go check them out :)
http://www.school-survival.net/stories/