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Education
Zero tolerance watch: Blind 7-year-old banned from bringing cane to school
Hey, give the school some credit! They could have made their decision to ban a blind child’s walking cane on the basis that…
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Education
Middle schooler faces assault charges for throwing baby carrot
Finally, a real microaggression! A middle schooler in Virginia could face criminal assault charges after tossing a baby carrot at a…
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Foreign Affairs
Report: Obama administration has granted asylum to 1,519 terrorists
Most people would say that number one job of a government is protecting its citizens, but not the Obama administration.…
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Education
Which famous middle schooler clashed repeatedly with authority, ‘racked up weeks of suspension’?
Maybe “infamous” is more apt than “famous,” but that probably depends which side of the ideological spectrum you tend toward.…
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Education
Looks like Ahmed didn’t actually ‘invent’ a clock after all
Barack Obama would be the first to admit it: “You didn’t build that.” Of course, when he spoke those words,…
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Education
Parents of children at NJ daycare horrified to learn THIS was going on
It’s hard to imagine the shock parents must have felt when they learned that employees of the school they were…
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Education
New York State cracks down on guns … toy guns
The New York State Attorney General’s Office announced a settlement with major retail stores that will further ban the sale of…
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Politics
Meet the ‘new’ Boy Scouts of America, where water gun fighting is verboten
This is not your father’s Boy Scouts. In fact, it sounds a lot like your grandmother’s Boy Scouts. The century-old organization, which…
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Education
HS history teacher fired for showing PSA on homosexuality from the 1950s (Video)
“Those who cannot learn from history are doomed to repeat it,” George Santayana is often misquoted as having said. (His…
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Education
White people, men banned from diversity rally at British university
How can you carry on a civilized conversation about diversity when you have all these “non-diverse” types around? That was…
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Education
South Carolina considers mandatory gun education at school
A pair of bills filed in each house of South Carolina’s legislature aim to eliminate the zero-tolerance attitude toward guns…
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Education
Student facing six-month suspension for possessing a spent casing
A Kansas elementary school student was suspended from school for possessing an empty, spent rifle shell casing. His suspension may…
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Education
Parents outraged over 8th-grade grammar homework that tells of teacher’s brutal murder
The assignment, intended for 8th-graders at an Oklahoma City school, was straightforward enough. Students were provided with a list of…
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Unyielding
Students fight back when public school principal terminates pro-life club
A Virginia high school principal has repeatedly denied a student’s request to from a school chapter of a national pro-life…
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Education
Teens exhibit Airsoft gun safety on Facebook; school suspends them (Video)
Two students mugged it up a bit at home with their Airsoft rifles before heading off to the school homecoming…
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Education
Kindergartner forced to sign anti-suicide contract after pointing crayon (Video)
An Alabama kindergartner was forced to sign a non-suicide and non-homicide contract after she drew a picture of something resembling…
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Education
Mom bakes vagina cookies for 2nd-graders, shocked when she gets flak
Stories that push the envelope, but in opposite directions, have an interesting way of entering the news cycle at the…
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Education
South Carolina teen arrested for completing school assignment (Video)
A freshman student was arrested this week for completing a school writing assignment after being turned in by his own…
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Education
Parents of first-grader warned by teacher that child took part in ‘dangerous chasing game’
At this point, it would be easier for school administrators to make a list of leisure-time activities children are allowed…
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Education
Feds’ school-discipline meddling will backfire and increase ‘zero-tolerance’ excesses
In a speech Saturday, Attorney General Holder made a very ironic claim: He blamed racial disparities in school discipline on “zero-tolerance”…
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Law and Government
Charges dropped against Muslim woman nabbed shoplifting at Macy’s
If you were caught red-handed shoplifting from a major national retail chain, you might expect to be detained by security…
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Education
Girl, 13, suspended for informing classmates they could opt out of Common Core test
Common Core has become the new toy gun. In much the way bringing a plastic water pistol to school (or biting…
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Education
School tells bullied child to stop bringing his ‘bully bait’ girly lunch bag to school
Wait a minute: What happened to zero tolerance for offenses like bullying? ABC News affiliate WLOS reports that a Buncombe County, N.C.,…
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Unyielding
Teen suspended for allegedly making gang sign is latest victim of zero tolerance
toaster pastry — verb: suspend a student for violating a school zero tolerance policy based on the flimsiest of evidence. (If you…
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