‘Animals’: Feds TACKLE staff, gas students at Minneapolis high school, witnesses say

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CwhoLYREvYw

 

Indiana high school cancels Jodi Picoult play in act she calls 'censorship'

"Even with the licensed edits, there were still sexual innuendos and alcohol references that I couldn't, in good conscience, allow in a public school performance," Fewell said… 

In a Facebook post earlier this month, Picoult alleged that the complaint about the play came from a single parent who objected to the original text having a non-binary character. The amended production did not reference the character's gender identity, according to Picoult…

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/indiana-high-school-cancels-jodi-picoult-play-act-calls-censorship-rcna240764

 

Georgia high school cancels "The Crucible" after complaints of "demonic" themes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zsOYPDy39nk

 

H.S. football coach is fired after holding a baptism for players after practice

Weeks before his firing, Ferrell had been criticized by the Freedom From Religion Foundation for inviting a pastor to baptize players on school grounds after a practice on Oct. 23...

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/georgia-high-school-football-coach-held-baptism-players-school-grounds-rcna125570

Oklahoma high school football game shooting: 1 teen killed, 4 people injured, authorities say | CNN

There have been at least 471 mass shootings in the United States so far in 2023…

https://www.cnn.com/2023/08/26/us/oklahoma-high-school-football-game-shooting/index.html

High school boys are trending conservative | The Hill

The full story is messier and murkier. High school seniors, boys and girls alike, are more likely to claim no political identity than to throw in with either liberals or conservatives…

https://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/4125661-high-school-boys-are-trending-conservative/

Parents Fume as Jenison High School Ballers Are Benched for Monkey Taunts

Jenison Senior High School players were captured on video last month ridiculing a Black opponent on the free throw line...

https://www.thedailybeast.com/parents-fume-as-jenison-high-school-ballers-are-benched-for-monkey-taunts

Thousands of Teens Are Being Pushed Into Military’s Junior R.O.T.C. - The New York Times

In high schools across the country, students are being placed in military classes without electing them on their own. "The only word I can think of is 'indoctrination,'" one parent said...

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/11/us/jrotc-schools-mandatory-automatic-enrollment.html

ChatGPT Will End High-School English - The Atlantic

I've been teaching English for 12 years, and I'm astounded by what ChatGPT can produce...

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2022/12/openai-chatgpt-writing-high-school-english-essay/672412/

No, Illinois high school is not grading students based on their race - PolitiFact

The school board and administrators discussed ways to more equitably assess students during a May 26 meeting. But there is no indication the district plans to grade students differently based on race...

https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2022/jun/03/facebook-posts/no-illinois-high-school-not-grading-students-based/

 

Video shows student threatening to lynch, kill Black students at Plymouth high school

…The video showed a white high school student filming himself threatening to lynch, curb-stomp and kill Black students, using the "n-word" multiple times…

https://www.wxyz.com/news/video-shows-student-threatening-to-lynch-kill-black-students-at-plymouth-high-school

Texas teens defend Colleyville principal James Whitfield on critical race theory accusations - Washington Post

At Colleyville Heritage High, students rushed to defend James Whitfield, who has been accused of embracing critical race theory and is in danger of being fired...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/interactive/2021/texas-teens-whitfield-critical-race-theory/

Michigan bill would bar transgender high schoolers from teams that align with their gender | TheHill

State Sen. Lana Theis (R), unveiled the legislation on Wednesday. It calls on school officials to ensure that, if a high school "designates" a team as for girls, the students who compete "for a position on that team or who is selected to compete on that team" must have been identified as female "at birth."...

https://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/542607-michigan-bill-would-bar-transgender-high-schoolers-from-teams

High School Starts At 3 p.m. For These Michigan Students : NPR

Halstead coordinates an experimental program called Eastern Flex Academy, where a handful of students attend school from 3 p.m. to 8 p.m. They start off with English and math classes, break for dinner and then finish their remaining courses online.....
https://www.npr.org/2020/01/28/799342925/high-school-starts-at-3-p-m-for-these-michigan-students

Only 7 Black Students Got Into N.Y.’s Most Selective High School, Out of 895 Spots

Only a tiny number of black students were offered admission to the highly selective public high schools in New York City on Monday, raising the pressure on officials to confront the decades-old challenge of integrating New York’s elite public schools... https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/18/nyregion/black-students-nyc-high-schools.html

Cop Working at High School Revealed as White Nationalist Organizer - The Daily Beast

Identity Evropa helped plan the Charlottesville hate march. One of its members has been secretly working as a police officer alongside kids...
https://www.thedailybeast.com/virginia-cop-daniel-morley-revealed-as-identity-evropa-member

How Trump’s high school records were hidden - The Washington Post

In 2011, days after Donald Trump challenged President Barack Obama to “show his records” to prove that he hadn’t been a “terrible student,” the headmaster at New York Military Academy got an order from his boss: Find Trump’s academic records and help bury them...
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/grab-that-record-how-trumps-high-school-transcript-was-hidden/2019/03/05/8815b7b8-3c61-11e9-aaae-69364b2ed137_story.html

DrugFacts: Monitoring the Future Survey: High School and Youth Trends | National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) - www.drugabuse.gov

The most striking finding of this year’s Monitoring the Future (MTF) survey of drug use and attitudes among 8th, 10th, and 12th graders in hundreds of schools across the country is a substantial and significant increase in vaping. Overall, rates of vaping are second only to alcohol among substances surveyed, with 17.6 percent of 8th graders, 32.3 percent of 10th graders, and 37.3 percent of 12th graders reporting past-year vaping.....
https://www.drugabuse.gov/publications/drugfacts/monitoring-future-survey-high-school-youth-trends

If You Could Add One Book to the High School Curriculum, What Would It Be?

Teachers often turn to the same tried and true books for high school reading assignments. So we asked a group of writers: What books would you add to the curriculum? Here are their answers....
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/21/books/if-you-could-add-one-book-to-the-high-school-curriculum-what-would-it-be.html

Teenaged hero sparks school board investigation into faith-based 'sex ed' in district - Daily Kos

Abby McElroy, a 17-year-old rising senior at Strath Haven High School in the Philadelphia suburb of Wallingford, Pennsylvania, is also a rising activist (and why wouldn't she be, she's step-daughter to our own Adam Bonin). She rocked her district's school board last month when she informed them that a local faith-based crisis pregnancy center, Amnion Pregnancy Center, had been invited into her health class to "teach" a sex ed segment. You can imagine what they were teaching: ....
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/1787122