Story: Man dressed as penis disrupts graduation
You have schools that lock out people from getting into the graduation, but somehow a guy in a huge penis outfit gets through security at this one. It was later rumored he was chasing after a girl dressed as a big vagina, but they found her in the bathroom crying about something.
Story: Charter Oak students upset by racial prank
One yearbook editor's idea of humor is changing the names of the students in the Black Union to fake, borderline derogatory "ghetto" names." Don't schools have advisor's who should be overlooking anything before it goes into print? At a school that is less than 5% black, these aren't the kind of jokes that are going to be forgotten.
Story: Montana school searches for missing bison
My understanding is that they slaughter these animals right by the school, then immediately process them for lunches that day. That's cool. The rest of us are left guessing where our cafeteria meat comes from. And to really illustrate how rural Montana is, 130 bison can go missing and the town "has no idea where they're at." I'm guessing they've never had this problem in Manhattan.
Story: Students' laxative-spiked cake sends Brooklyn teachers to hospital
Didn't these teachers learn when Odysseus tried this same stunt like 3000 years ago? Or has mythology been cut from the curriculum as well.
Story: Federal Judge Rules Fox News “Gullible” and “Unprofessional”
Basically, the paraphrased story is: A couple kids pulled a goof on a couple other kids during lunch. The incident was documented and handled by the school. Another kid put a story on a website to parody the situation. FoxNews then took it upon themselves to report the story, based on the satirical site, causing the town to be in an uproar.
So what I've gathered is, even if schools try to do the right thing, students still somehow pay the consequences. Oh, and never trust your news.
Story: Teen charged with crime for bringing pony to school
The crime she was actually charged for was "rubbing it in the face of every other girl who was never fortunate enough to own a pony as a child." It's an odd crime, but nonetheless, the law is the law and it had to be enforced.
Story: Class president arrested after senior prank
"I am not a role model." It's a shame we can't even count on the good ones to make us proud. But then again, name a president (of the united states) that has never been in trouble for anything? Let's stop blaming the parents and point fingers at the Commander in Chief.
Story: Bloomington school blocks graduation walk for 3 Confederate flag-wavers
The school reacted as if these students came to school with dynamite strapped to their chest. Apparently is getting harder and harder to make it through school without getting suspended. The kids were just a couple Good 'Ol Boys gettin ready to celebrate graduatin!
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.
Story: Bogus letter urges Lincoln parents to get kids booze on prom night
Well if you can't smell it in the air, it's senior prank season. The time of year when many innocent, harmless jokes result in a principal flexing his muscle by handing out suspensions as if they have an expiration date. We'll see how this one unfolds, but in the meantime, I heard those kids want the rubbers back that were included in the letter.
Story: 'Banana boys' suspended for senior prank
They dressed up like bananas and were chased by a gorilla through the hallways. "Four bananas were rounded up by school security" before this potassium posse was given a one week suspension. (I'm pretty sure the kid who brought a gun to school earlier this week is already back in class.) The suspended bananas plan to spend the week rotting away and turning brown in a wicker basket on the kitchen counter.
"Hey man, it was just a goof!"
Story: April Fools' joke backfires on student
Evidently, since we developed an arbitrary day that we can play jokes on each other, this kid thought a bomb threat to a school would just be laughed off. Well it turns out that over 100 faculty, 1100 students, 2000 parents, and oh yes, the local law enforcement, didn't see the humor in this one. Sorry buddy, make next year just put a "kick me" sign on someone's back.
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Story: Cops Bust High School Root Beer Kegger
Video: http://youtube.com/watch?v=vfQCE2917NE
Once you kids are old enough to drink Root Beer, this won't be as much fun. What a tremendous waste of resources for the police department, and how can they force all these kids to submit to breathalyzers? There wasn't any illegal substance found! Apparently illegally parked cars are now grounds for warrantless search.
Story: Students Punished After Buying Lunch With Pennies
I guess a penny has no value at this school. What's more troublesome is that these students got a couple days detention for helping stimulate the school budget. It amazing how punishments can be handed out when there is absolutely no written rules stating the proper way to pay for a pizza boat in the lunch line.
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Madison, WI. University of Wisconsin - Madison students Maggie Koopman and Ben Grady are leading a student movement at UW-Madison to end Winter. Complete with signs, cheers, and a clipboard full of names, Grady was certain they would gather enough signatures to effectively lobby the state legislature to end winter, but he wasn't sure exactly how many signatures he needed. Not all the Badgers are looking forward to spring however. Some student, apparently embittered by the constant stream of political protests at Madison, mumbled "So you hate Christmas?". Apparently, this is just a first step in building solidarity within the movement to eventually eliminate fall and spring as well.
