Teacher Suspended After Fight With Student

Story: Teacher Suspended After Fight With Student

I can think of a lot of good reasons to fight with a student: to demonstrate maturity, to be a positive role model, to maintain a level of professionalism, and also to show everyone how tough you are. Are schools becoming ticking time bombs for violence to break out at any minute? Although it not confirmed, some reports say this teacher was also crashing gym class just to show everyone how hard he can throw a dodgeball.

Vandalism forces high school to close

Story: Vandals force closure of Mt. Clemens High School

Kids will do anything to miss a day of school: fake sick, have car problems, trash thousands of dollars worth of equipment and supplies. We'll see how long it takes this crime scene to unfold before students are allowed back into school. In the meantime, they have all day to vandalize the city while they're not in class.

School bans touching

Story: School bans touching

Well, that about wraps it up. With the school year winding down, there is now officially nothing you can do without facing a punishment. Wait, that's not exactly true. For now, some schools are still allowing talking. It's only a matter of time until that basic human right is waived.

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Students' photos altered in yearbook

Story: Students' photos altered in McKinney yearbook

40% of the students had something changed on their picture. Clothes were switched, head sizes stretched, fake mustaches were drawn in! (maybe). Seeing as how most people have a pretty good idea of what they look like, I still can't figure out how someone would think no one would notice. School officials thought something was fishy when they realized that the majority of the students appeared in the yearbook with shirts reading: "I LOVE Lifetouch National School Studios."

District Ditching Monday Classes to Save Money

Story: School District Ditching Monday Classes to Save Money

Let's say there's an average of 40 weeks of school during the year. That's 40 Monday's they will be missing. Multiply that by the 13 years most students attend school. What we have here results in a group of Minnesota pupils that are graduating 520 days dumber than all other students across the country. Does the city have a plan for all these kids running around town every Monday without anything to do? I just finished reading an article from the year 2010: "Teen pregnancy reaches all-time high in Minnesota."

Seniors Suspended Over T-Shirts Joking About Underage Drinking

Story: Seniors Suspended Over T-Shirts Joking About Underage Drinking

MADD believes that these shirts highly encourage drinking and driving. I was under the impression that the primary function of a shirt to too keep you warm and prevent your bare chest from being exposed. The text on the shirt is completely vague and indirect, so of course they have to be outlawed.

Teacher Arrested With Drugs, Gun on Campus

Story: Elementary School Teacher Arrested With Drugs, Gun on Campus

I want to say that there are signs around most schools that read "Drug Free Zone." I also want to say that there is a thing called 'common sense' that generally dictates to us why we don't need guns and weed at elementary schools.

Trip Cut Short After Student Eats Pot Brownie

Story: School Trip Cut Short After Student Eats Pot Brownie

Not sure what the bigger buzzkill was...the fact that this kid scored some bad weed, or the fact that hundreds of students lost a field trip because of one idiotic boy. Don't the rides at Cedar Point get you high enough?

8th Graders Suspended After Having Sex on Trip

Story: 8th Graders Suspended After Having Sex on Field Trip

Why would we expect 20 chaperone's to catch on to this? For the future, here's what might help tip you off: When you see a girl go into a guys room, something is about to happen. On a positive note, at least it's teen on teen sex. I am glad none of these adults decided to cash in on the action.

Nude student photos shock local middle school

Story: Nude student photos shock local middle school

Young teens trade nude photos of each other as if it was candy. No more digging through the back of dad's closet if you want to see a naked chick...you can just have a friend send you a text image of the cute girl in school during geometry class. The sad thing- it's only a matter of time until this epidemic strikes elementary schools.

Mother Takes Loaded Guns to School Conference

Story: Mother Takes Loaded Guns to Elementary School Conference

Sometimes it's just hard to get noticed and have your opinion heard at these school meetings. Luckily, she didn't have to fire a few rounds into the ceiling to make her point. She was, however, planning to shoot at the ground and make the principal "dance!" until she got her way.