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.

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.

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?

Lacrosse team suspended after spelling prom invitation on bare bottoms

Story: Lacrosse team suspended after spelling prom invitation on bare bottoms

What is actually happening here is that, with the explosion of text messaging in the last few years, face-to-face communication among teens has almost completely diminished and become foreign. Therefore, not knowing how to properly ask a girl to prom in person, this seemed liked the best alternative.

Ghost in the Machine Spreads Bogus Detention Messages

Glitch in Michigan High School's Automated Dialing System Spreads Bogus Detention Messages

This actually sounds like a good prank to me. I wonder if schools also send apologetic messages to the parents every time they hire a child molester, or their teachers beat kids up, or the principal is a drunk. For more stories like these check out DetentionSlip.org!It's gotta be somebody's responsibilty to keep the public informed.

Michigan student suspended for wearing 'I'm straight' sticker

Michigan student suspended for wearing "I'm Straight" sticker

Let's review the facts. A public school actually participates in an event that celebrates (or at least acknowledges) homosexuality as a choice. Students are asked to wear duck-tape over their mouths to signify "silence." One student decided to declare that he is straight by writing it on the duct-tape.

A couple things aren't adding up. 1.) Since when can schools force students actively participate in such a ceremony? 2.) When did schools determine what beliefs students must have? and 3.) At what point in the story did this boy tie a homosexual to the back of his truck and drag him across town?

To my knowledge this kid wasn't spewing Anti-Gay comments or rallying his friends to commit hate crimes. He simply objected to purpose of the event. Fair enough.

The school isn't gonna win the church argument, so let that one be. It seems almost anything is considered inappropriate now. Every time one person stands up for themselves, it is deemed a distraction. This school should just start campaigning to demand students buy into a flat-tax economy, and then convince them that the Native Americans peacefully forfeited their land to us. Maybe we need to start educating every Kindergartener that Santa Claus is not real.

Everyone has ideas and everyone has beliefs. If they're wrong, let's learn why and create discussion. It seems too many schools have the attitude that "We're doing it like this, and you're gonna like it. Bottom line."