Fake Names Appear in School Yearbook

Link:

http://www.sacbee.com/2013/06/06/5476198/made-up-names-appear-in-ny-high.html

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My piece talking with North Florida Women's Tennis coach Audra Cohen, and she's also a former NCAA Champ.

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Students Set Off Fireworks at School

Idiots.

Description says the students at this unnamed high school were expelled

'Slutty Wednesday' at One High School in New York

To protest the school's new dress code, students at Stuyvesant High School in New York City took a stand against the administration. Last week, nearly 100 students participated in a student-organized "Slutty Wednesday" protest.

The students- both boy and girls took to the streets of lower Manhattan in revealing clothing, with flyers that read, "Redress the Dress Code."

It still remains to be scene if the protest was a success.

The much discussed dress code bans the exposure of midriffs, visible underwear, shoulders and lower backs, and mandated that the hemlines of all shorts, skirts and dresses fall below the line of the fingertips. It also prohibits students from wearing articles of clothing with images or words deemed inappropriate.

Freshman Lucy Greider, who claims that she’s been sent to the office 10 times this year for dress code violations, told the New York Post: “We work our a**es off here and school is about learning. Clothing is not important."

The administration has a different perspective on the matter. Principal Stanley Teitel told a student resporter from the Stuyvesant Spectator that the new dress code was put into place because students were wearing inappropriate clothing to school last fall.

Stanley Teitel
“The bottom line is, some things are a distraction," said Teitel. "And we don’t need to distract students from what is supposed to be going on here, which is learning.”

The students at this school are above-average students and do well on standardized tests, they didn't appear to be too distracted.

Maybe it was the teachers and staff that were distracted.

If nothing else, it gives us another reason to call Wednesday, "Hump Day."

Cheerleaders Suspended for Hazing With Condiments

Authorities and school officials are investigating a hazing incident involving a Utah high school that included senior cheerleaders soaking incoming squad members with condiments and forcing them to strip to their underwear.

Ogden School District spokeswoman Donna Corby said the nine cheerleaders from Ogden High School have been suspended.

Corby said the girls joining the squad next year were taken to a park May 4, supposedly to celebrate earning a spot as a cheerleader. Instead, they were blindfolded and told to do push-ups and sit-ups.

She said the senior cheerleaders threw ketchup, mustard, peanut butter and pickle juice at the girls. The girls were then told to strip down to their underwear to get sprayed off.

It was dumb,” said Hailey Lawrence, Ogden High School Cheerleader.

Lawrence is one of nine senior Ogden cheerleaders suspended for hazing the girls who plan to be cheerleaders next year. She said she didn’t participate in the hazing but she watched as her fellow seniors on the squad blindfolded the new girls at Forest Green Park, and forced them to do cheers while everyone threw things like ketchup mustard and vinegar at them.

Lawrence said the girls who were hazed knew beforehand this was what the squad was going to do, but she felt uncomfortable.

Apparently one of the girls had a peanut allergy and suffered a minor reaction.

"We had a young lady with a peanut allergy, and had to use her (epinephrine) pen," Corby said, noting that the students probably didn't think of the risks they were causing. "You think something's going to be very innocent but it turned out to be very dangerous."

The suspended students were allowed back into the school to take their advanced placement and end-of-year exams. It is anticipated they will still graduate. Still, Corby said, they might still face additional consequences.

 No word on when the investigation will be complete.