Now I am glad that my school isn’t as restrictive as Desert Wind School in Socorro, TX. There, an 8th grader is missing prom and graduation because of highlights in her hair. Not purple highlights. Not 5 foot long extensions. Just highlights.
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I wish my friends and I had thought of this! Maybe next year. Time to kill the tests from the grassroots, and that means us in our classrooms. And I hope that the teacher gets OUT of trouble.
Published on Thursday, May 22, 2008 by New York Daily News
New York 8th-Graders Boycott Practice Exam But Teacher […]
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This is TAKS week here in the Texas schools. As a 10th grader, I take four tests this year. Some years we take two and other years three or four, but this is the big year that determines how well our school does compared to other schools. For us as students, every year matters because […]
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Laura sent me a link to this blog, and I think it’s amazing.
Days of My Life
Talk about daily life of a teenage girl in Iraq, and days of suffering and success. My nick name will be Sunshine.
The author is my age, but lives in Mosul in Iraq. She talks about school and friends […]
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Nope, this is not a post about Iraq, or even about King Georgie. It’s about 8 kids my age who don’t have the sense God gave a turnip! According to the L.A. Times,
Eight teenagers have been arrested on charges alleging they beat another teen in an “animalistic attack” so they could make a videotape to […]
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The kids I know have a lot of opinions about race, but I’d say that in my HS, only about 30% of the kids care at all about politics, and most of them don’t know a lot about the issues. Most opinions are no more complicated that “Dude, that ain’t right.” or “Well he’s a […]
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Sorry for the light posting during my vacation. Been having way too much fun to pay a lot of attention to politics. Good thing that people sometimes send me links like this one!
New Poll: 12 Year Olds Know Congress Could Cut War Money, Adults Believe Congress Powerless to End Iraq Occupation
from AfterDowningStreet.org - Impeach Bush […]
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I’ve written before about prison camps for teenagers and the abuse that happens there, but this one’s the worst I have seen described INSIDE the U.S. Nothing, NOTHING these girls did could justify this. Never!
AP: 13,000 abuse claims in juvie centers (AP)
from Yahoo! News
AP - The Columbia Training School […]
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Today during my social studies class, we had a debate over the Supreme Court case, Wade vs. Boy Scouts of America. In the case, a man that had been in boy scouts for 12 years, earning the coveted rank of Eagle Scout, began to tell people that he was gay. because of this he […]
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So, if my parents or guardians made me sleep in a room like this
or spend all of my time lying on the floor face down like this …
they would probably get arrested, right? Either for child abuse or neglect.
But what about if parents outsourced abusing their kids? What if they sent thm to places where […]
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