A 5th grader in Colorado was recently suspended for wearing this handmade t-shirt to school. He had the option to turn the shirt inside out, or to change his shirt entirely, and he chose not to. His reasoning being that he had the civil right to exercise free speech. As a mother…Daxx Dalton…YOU HAVE NO [...]
If you are undecided on where to spend the most kick-@ss time of your life [college], and you can’t afford to tour the country, have no fear! The internet is to the rescue, once again. UniGo allows you to go on virtual tour of the schools you are interested in, from the student’s perspective. There [...]
The Tall Club will give away up to $1000 to students entering their first year of college who are over 5″10 for women ad 6″2 for men. WTF? Doesn’t that equate to 1/3 of the student population, if not more? [Via Tall Clubs Inter.]
Queens University Belfast is now offering a course in Jedi mind tricks and how to master and implement them. It also claims to examine the “wider issues behind the Star Wars universe, like balance, destiny, dualism, fatherhood and fascism”. I think that this is wildly ridiculous, but hey, I’m sure those people who waited for [...]
While the rise of ACT scores has been well publicised this week, California’s failed school system has been quietly sneaking by. It was reported today that less than half of the students in public education were proficient in both math AND English. Overall, roughly 46% are proficient in math and 43% in English, and if [...]
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