Posts Tagged ‘rights at school’
Australian teen sues to study law
Geelong Grammar School is a prestigious private school in Australia. In fact, England’s Prince Charles attended the school for two terms in the 1960s. Rose Ashton-Weir, who is now 18 years old, attended Geelong for her first two years of high school. Then she transferred to …
Protesting a dress code by shunning the uniform
What better way to protest a school’s uniform than refusing to wear it? That’s what two students at an elementary school in Nevada did in 2011. Known only as the Fruddens, their parents objected to uniforms as a sign of conformity and allowed their children to …
Protesting a dress code by shunning the uniform
What better way to protest a school’s uniform than refusing to wear it? That’s what two students at an elementary school in Nevada did in 2011. Known only as the Fruddens, their parents objected to uniforms as a sign of conformity and allowed their children to …
Prayer in public schools – 50 years later
New York state authorized the voluntary recitation of a prayer in all public schools. The prayer was written by the state Board of Regents who administered all things education for New York’s public school students. The prayer that schools could adopt and recite at the beginning of each …
Teen bystander punished for defending bullying victim
Stormy Rich is a 18-year-old senior at Umatilla High School in Florida. Because of her school work and credits earned, she doesn’t have a first-period class. Stormy takes a middle school bus later in the morning to her high school. She noticed a special needs …
College admission: We are looking for that “fire in the belly”
This is a statement from an admissions officer at a liberal arts college in the Northeast. The year 2011 was one of the toughest college admission seasons on record. A record low number of applicants were accepted by the colleges of their choice. An article by …
