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School Bans Pro-Life T-Shirt - Seventh Grader Sues
Did a school have the right to ban this T-shirt? Photo: American Life League
The mother of a California seventh-grader forced to remove her pro-life T-shirt is suing school administrators, claiming that her daughter's First Amendment rights ...
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Boy suspended over anti-Obama tshirt
(Click the photo for outlandish political baby clothing) With only 40 days left until the 2008 Presidential election, there's no doubt that things are heating up. As the candidates battle it out on the main stage, conversations at home are bound to ...
Move over, Tango, Uncle Bobby's here
For two years straight, And Tango Makes Three was the top most challenged library book, according to the American Library Association. This year, however, another book might just take that dubious honor away. Uncle Bobby's Wedding is a story of a ...
Be careful what you say, even on the internet
There's a very good rule of thumb you might have heard from your own parents, once upon a time. If you can't say something nice, don't say anything at all. Avery Doninger, a senior at Lewis S. Mills High School in Connecticut didn't follow that ...
Carmel isn't family friendly
Not that we were planning on leaving San Francisco anyway, but if we did, we surely wouldn't be moving to Carmel, Indiana. Why not, you ask? Because it's not "family friendly". Earlier this week, the Carmel City Council voted 5-2 not to adopt a ...
Georgia school paper allows gay-bashing editorial
I know the classic stereotype of the south as being ignorant, barbaric, and well behind the times aren't wholly true, but it seems some folks down in Georgia aren't helping to dispell any such myths. In addition to the duct-taping incident, there is ...
Sophomore suspended for publicly accepting gay kids
School administrations are perenially stuck between a rock and a hard place, trying to maintain order so their students can learn, while also under pressure to allow -- at least to some degree -- freedom of expression for these often outspoken ...When did peace become controversial?
Every year, the seniors at Wilson High School in Portland, Oregon indulge in a year-end prank. This year, the class of 2007 decided to make a statement and remove hundreds of feet of sod from school's courtyard. They replaced the sod with marigolds ...An award high schools don't want to win
Free speech in school can be a gray area, as administrators are constantly making judgment calls about whether students' speech is disruptive, or just unpalatable. When they cross the line, they might earn themselves a Muzzle award -- dubious honors ...
Piercings may be a no-no, but criticizing the policy is a-ok
A little over a year ago, Shawn Gobert, the principal of Greencastle Middle School, in Greencastle, Indiana, came across a web page on MySpace that he had supposedly created. One of his students, identified only as A.B., posted some derogatory and ...
School says no to MySpace -- even at home
Many schools have an internet policy that prohibits non-school activities such as updating one's MySpace account from school computers. St. Hugo of the Hills, a catholic school near Detroit, Michigan, however, has taken it one step further. According ...Students sue school to wear anti-gay T-shirt
April 18 is recognized as a National Day of Silence, on which students can chose not to speak as protest against unfair treatment of homosexuals. When one student chose to wear an anti-gay T-shirt in response to that protest, school administrators ...Pedophile rates Barack Obama's kids
When I post pictures of Ellie on the Internet, here or elsewhere, I always make sure her face is obscured somehow. I can never know who will see the photo and the idea that it might catch the attention of a pedophile is enough to make me cautious. ...
School sued for banning Jesus costume
A ten year old boy who was refused the right to dress as Jesus during his school's Halloween activities is suing a Philadelphia school district. The complaint alleges that officials at Willow Hill Elementary School in Glenside, Pennsylvania refused ...
Follow-up: Vagina is back on the marguee
Florida residents, cover your daughters' eyes! The word vagina is back in view! After a woman called to complain that her daughter had seen the word vagina on a theatre marquee, the theatre changed it to read "The Hoohaa Monologues". As if that were ...
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