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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Filed under: Education, Featured Stories, FrecklesCassie, Texas, Young Adult Issues, children, kids, schools, teens
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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If you’re in Thailand, better stand up when you’re supposed to!
Thai student accused of king insult
from AL JAZEERA
Failure to stand for king’s anthem could land student with 15 year jail term.
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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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Filed under: Constitution, Education, Featured Stories, FrecklesCassie, Texas, Young Adult Issues, kids, schools, teens, testing
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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Some teenagers are stupid! And some are just uninformed. They NEED to start giving us the real facts or kids will be killing themselves trying to stay healthy. I wrote about teen pregnancy and sex education previously here and here and here.
Nobody Could Have Predicted…
from Eschaton by Atrios
And on and on…
ORLANDO, Fla. — A recent […]
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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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Filed under: Barack Obama, Election 2008, Featured Stories, FrecklesCassie, Opinion, Young Adult Issues, kids, news, race, racism, schools
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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Yesterday Alex wrote about his first vote now that he’s 18, his first participation in a caucus. Daisy, who used to blog with us, is also old enough to vote for the first time this year. (I still have a few years yet.) Do you think they’re old enough […]
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CALLING STUDENTS AND YOUTH NATIONWIDE
from AfterDowningStreet.org - Impeach Bush and Cheney Now!
Submitted by davidswanson on Wed, 2008-02-06 16:32.
Spring Break in Washington D.C. to End the Iraq Occupation
We invite you to invite yourself, your friends, and your peers to come to Washington D.C. to join youth and students from around the nation to
Break […]
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Filed under: Activism, DC, Featured Stories, First Amendment, FrecklesCassie, Iraq War, Politics, Young Adult Issues, freedom of speech
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