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Tagrights at school

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“Scumbag Teachers” merits suspension

Three seniors at George Washington High School in San Francisco were given three-day suspensions for what they wrote on a 

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Banned from Prom for offensive dress & no date

Texanna Edwards is a senior at Gibson County High School in Tennessee. In April, 2012, she showed up at her 

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Fifth-grader’s drawing ends up in federal court

B. C. was 10 years-old and in the fifth grade at Berea Elementary School in New York. His science teacher 

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Rap song against coaches gets student suspended (decision reversed in 2014)

Taylor Bell was a senior at Itawamba Agricultural School in Mississippi. Unhappy with two of his coaches, he wrote and 

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U.S. school shootings over past twenty years

The recent  incident at Chardon High School in Ohio is just one of many middle and high school shootings in our recent history. Most 

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Off-campus posts by 12 year-old about hall monitor brings detention and more

R. S. was a 12 year-old sixth-grader in a Minnesota public school. During the 2010-2011 school year, R. S. posted 

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Undocumented high school students speak out

Students from Mira Mesa High School in San Diego wrote an open letter to “Whom It May Concern” that was published by Education 

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High school editorial on atheism is censored

Krystal Myers is a student at Lenoir City High School in Tennessee. She is an honor student, captain of the 

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What do you think about being fined for breaking the rules at school?

A charter school in Chicago that includes ten high schools has a unique policy in dealing with students who violate 

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Is the movie “Red Tails” for boys, girls or both?

That seems to be the question in one Texas school district. Almost 6,000 fifth grade boys were treated to a 

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