The Archives - March 2008
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School lunch–for pennies.
Last week, twenty-nine 7th and 8th graders at Readington Middle School in New Jersey decided to protest the length of their "lunch hour." Since they were given only 30 minutes for lunch, they each brought 200 pennies to ...
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You and School (0)
Do any states have laws that specifically protect student expression?
The answer is yes - there are at least seven states with laws on the books regarding different forms of student expression. As you know, the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution grants you freedom of speech and ...
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Talk Back (1)
Valentine’s Day 2008 will be remembered at a California high school
15-year-old Richard Edmond is the editor of Le Sabre, his high school's newspaper. For the Valentine's Day issue he tried to raise awareness of violence against women with a lead story about the play "Vagina Monologues." ...
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3rd graders searched for missing $5.00.
In February, 2008, an envelope containing $5.00 was missing from the teacher's desk. It was decided that the 17 third-graders at Martin Luther King Elementary in Kentucky would be searched. They were asked to take ...
