high school

What Was It Like in the 90s? High School? Dating? 90s Commercials -Jay Dyer

I polled the youth recently and they said it’s different than the John Hughes idea of high school. Tonight we do a bit of nostalgia and reflect on what had changed. The changes have been unreal if you lived in that time, so we will hav e fun revisiting some of the weird and wacky […]
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School District to Begin Randomly Drug Testing High School Students

(ANTIMEDIA) Clark County, IN — A school district in Clark County, Indiana, will soon be randomly drug testing students who want to participate in extracurricular activities like sports, band, and driving to school. “Henryville High School and Borden High School will randomly select ten students each quarter and test them for ten drugs that teenagers are most likely to […]

BREAKING: Shooting at Great Mills High School in Maryland

WUSA channel 9 in Maryland is reporting a shooting at Great Mills High School in St Mary’s County in Maryland. The shooting itself is reported to be contained at this time. At this point the news is incomplete, but it is known that students from Great Mills High School are being relocated to nearby Leonardtown High school for the parents to pick their kids up.

School Suspends Student for Staying in Class During Gun Violence Walk Out

(ANTIMEDIA) Hillard, OH — An Ohio high school student says he was suspended after refusing to participate in the national student walkouts protesting gun violence on Wednesday. Though he was given the option to either attend the demonstration at his school or go to an alternate study hall, he refused both and was reprimanded for not following […]

Apparently the “Solution” to Mass Shootings Is to Turn Schools Into Prisons

(ANTIMEDIA) — In response to last week’s shooting at a Florida high school, the state’s governor recently released his plans to make schools safer. Many of his proposals will indisputably serve to further turn schools into prisons, a trend that has been on the rise for years. According to the Tampa Bay Times, Governor Rick Scott’s proposals include: “— $450 […]

Native American High School Student’s Grade Lowered for Not Standing for Pledge

(ANTIMEDIA) In the wake of the Colin Kaepernick national anthem controversy, American nationalism has shifted from overdrive to hyperdrive.
Though internet temper tantrums and jersey-burning have dominated protests against Kaepernick’s protest, the backlash is being felt in a different and more institutional way: in public schools.

Education Deform – School-to-Prison Pipeline

As a preface here, as I have done many times as my role as writer for DV, I have to default to the local, as in, where you see fault lines and bright lines in a local situation, you can pretty much make the larger microcosmic statement about many things for a state, region, country, culture, what have you.
The School to Prison Pipeline has been written about many, many times, and my hat goes off to some of those writers:
The ACLU has it on its radar: **