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Texas senior can keep his long hair

“I feel good that the school board respects me for who I am – a native person.” School rules at 

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Prosecutor sued by students in cellphone photo incident

In an unusual twist in the war on sexting, Pennsylvania parents of three teenage girls filed a lawsuit against the 

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Has zero tolerance at school gone too far?

A 13-year-old boy in Virginia accepted a breath mint from another kid at school.  He was suspended and required to 

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Girl, 14, arrested for child pornography on MySpace.

Following a month-long investigation, authorities in New Jersey arrested a 14-year-old girl for uploading 30 sexually explicit pictures of herself 

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Prom dresses and tuxedos – what’s all the fuss about?

Do you think public school dress codes should prohibit girls from wearing tuxedos or boys from wearing dresses to the 

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Canada Celebrates Anti-Bullying Day

On February 25, 2009, boys and girls across Canada wore something pink to school in recognition of the country’s Anti-Bullying 

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Happy 40th, tweens, teens and Tinker!!

That’s right. On February 24, 1969, the U.S. Supreme Court declared that students are persons with fundamental rights in-and-out of 

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Middle school strip-search for two ibuprofen!!

Yes, this happened to 13-year-old 8th grader Savana in Arizona. Now the U.S. Supreme Court will decide if her rights 

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Pennsylvania teens charged with child pornography for texting

States are cracking down on the recent ‘sexting’ trend – where users send nude or semi-nude pictures of themselves by 

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Is steroid use by high school athletes a widespread problem?

Boys and girls participating in high school volleyball, football, tennis, cross country and all other sports have been subjected to random testing 

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