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Do you have to be vaccinated to go to school?

Do your parents oppose you being vaccinated for personal or religious reasons? Too bad says California governor Jerry Brown. California 

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Coming out at graduation

More and more teenagers are coming out to their parents and friends as tolerance grows for the LGBT community. We 

Digital disobedience and free speech
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8th grader’s Facebook rant against teacher is “protected speech”

That’s right – a federal district court judge in Oregon called Braeden Burge’s off-campus posts an attempt to elicit a 

Sequoyah High School senior prank
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Another senior prank gone awry

Every year we tell you about prom mishaps and questionable senior pranks. We hope you learn from them. This year, 

typewriter freedom of press
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Freedom of the press for high school journalists

Do  students have a right to free speech at school when writing for the school newspaper, yearbook or theater productions? 

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Namaste: Court rules yoga classes in public schools do not violate freedom of religion

For many in this country, the practice of yoga is an entirely secular (non-religious) experience undertaken for reasons such as 

Censorship
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“Dabbing” article censored in Virginia high school

SaraRose Martin is the co-editor of The Falconer, the student newspaper at Fauquier High School in Virginia. In March, 2015, 

cyberbullying poster
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Should cyberbullying be a crime?

In March, 2015, a bill was introduced in the Alabama legislature proposing to make student cyberbullying a crime. Attempts in 

SAE fraternity
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“N-word” by frat boys merits expulsion

In March, 2015, a group of fraternity brothers from the University of Oklahoma chapter of Sigma Alpha Epsilon (SAE) were 

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Arizona first to require civics test to graduate

The subject has been tossed around for years, but Arizona took action in January, 2015 by becoming the first state 

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