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33 High School Students Were Suspended For Twerking

Jeremy Taylor — Fri, 03 May 2013 15:25:00 +0000

"Twerking" is the latest dance craze. And by that we mean Miley Cyrus is quite fond of posting videos of herself doing it.

But the administration at Scripps Ranch High School in San Diego are not fond of Twerking. In fact they just suspended 33 students for their o

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Students Protest Potential Budget Cuts at The University of Montana

Jon King — Thu, 02 May 2013 01:41:04 +0000

Students at The University of Montana and some faculty met at the oval Today, May 1, to protest projected cuts in the university's budget.

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Girl, 13, Suspended for Bringing Butter Knife to Cut Fruit at Lunch

Drew Weisholtz — Tue, 02 Apr 2013 13:49:29 +0000

A butter knife is causing some major controversy in Attleboro, Massachusetts.

Yes, a butter knife.

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Hamilton High Speech Team Places Third at State Meet

Steve Fullerton — Thu, 31 Jan 2013 22:22:58 +0000

At the State Speech Meet, the Hamilton High School Speech and Drama Team placed Third in the Class A Speech and Debate division and Third in the Drama division.

Hamilton has two State Champions. Whitney Cleveland is a State A Champion in Serious Solo and also placed Third in Humorous Solo

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Hamilton High School Congratulates Student-Athletes

Steve Fullerton — Tue, 27 Nov 2012 02:43:31 +0000

Academic All-State honors have been announced for students lettering in various fall sports at Hamilton High School.

To get All-State status, a student must letter in a sport while maintaining at least a 3

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Student Caught With 35-Foot Long Cheat Sheet

Jeremy Taylor — Wed, 13 Jun 2012 16:05:59 +0000

Anyone who’s been faced with a difficult test has at least been tempted to scribble some notes on their hand, or maybe try to stuff a small answer key under their watch. But a high school student in Kazakhstan (yup, that Kazakhstan) took the cheat sheet concept to what should be its ridiculous conclusion when he was caught with 35-feet of crib sheet during an university entrance exam.

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Hamilton High School Gets Driving Message

Steve Fullerton — Wed, 21 Dec 2011 23:25:40 +0000

Hamilton High School students sign pledges not to text while driving.

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Teacher Realizes 'The Daily Show' Is More Harmful to Students Than He Thought

Kathy Landin — Wed, 16 Nov 2011 21:39:22 +0000

Back in the day, high school classes would only show “how a bill becomes a law” videos, but Rhett Felix, a teacher at Eureka High school outside of Peoria, Illinois, tried to spice things up a bit. He used clips from Comedy Central’s ‘The Daily Show with Jon Stewart‘ to educate his students about current events, but the local school board placed him on paid suspension once word got out.

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Bozeman Students At Shuttle Launch

Steve Fullerton — Thu, 28 Apr 2011 19:35:27 +0000

Thanks to a robot, three Montana State University graduates will be guests at the scheduled Friday launch of the space shuttle Endeavour at Kennedy Space Center.
This is the last launch of Endeavour and the second-to-the-last shuttle flight before the program is shut down

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