Articles labeled: high school

Out of all the worries we have, we never thought we would have to be paranoid about our son participating in a game of tug-of-war.

Henry Barrett and Mitch Helfer both had their right hands partially severed in the tug-of-war in October.

Barrett said he remembered hearing a “snap” and realizing almost immediately his right hand was bleeding and numb.

“It turned the muscles into hamburgers and severed 90 percent of the nerves. What wasn’t severed was severely traumatized. Three bones were snapped clean in half,” said Barrett.

Brian, look. You’re a young guy, probably just out of college, so really, it’s not too late to make a career change. Because I don’t think working with children is quite your thing.

A Delta high school English teacher punished a student who was late for class by ordering him to do push-ups and sit-ups and letting other students hit him when he failed to complete the exercise, police said Monday.

Brian Havel, 22, faces charges of child abuse in the case, which allegedly happened March 14, said Delta Police interim Chief Roger Christian. He said police began investigating after the student, who is 15 or 16-years-old, told his parents what happened.

Christian said Havel demanded that the student do a certain amount of push-ups or sit-ups in a set amount of time when he arrived late for class. Christian said the student either refused to do the exercise or didn’t finish in time.

A freshman expelled from Bolingbrook High School in suburban Chicago is suing the school, claiming that they falsely made gang affiliation accusations against him, and that the expulsion was racially motivated:

Roger Coronado Jr., 15, of Bolingbrook filed a complaint Saturday in U. S. District Court, listing Valley View Public School District 365U and an unidentified Bolingbrook police officer among the defendants.

Coronado said he was eating his lunch in the cafeteria Feb. 4 when a group of Mexican-American youths sat alongside him at a mostly empty table.

Shortly after, the Hispanic youths sitting beside him got into a verbal argument with a group of black students. Coronado said he stood up to move out of the way, thinking there would be a physical fight between the two groups.

The boy said he heard nothing more about the incident until Feb. 7, when he was sitting in his first-period class. That’s when he was told to report to a small police office inside the school. A Bolingbrook police officer told Coronado that he would have to pay a $50 fine.

“I said, ‘For what?’ He said, ‘Don’t act stupid.’ He said I flashed gang signs,” Coronado said.

The school refuses to provide details because Coronado is a minor, but do say that the case was handled fairly.

Two high school freshman basketball players face charges of sexually assaulting another freshman basketball player.

It is unknown if this was a hazing incident or pure sociopathy, either way, it’s disturbing to say the least.

MIAMI TWP. - Three members of the freshman boys basketball team at Milford High School are expected to be charged Monday with gross sexual imposition involving another ninth-grader on the team, police said Friday.

The freshman basketball game Friday against Anderson High School was canceled, Milford Superintendent Robert Farrell said.

The school will impose disciplinary action against the students on Monday, Farrell said. He declined to say if that would involve suspensions or expulsions.

A 14 year old, high school girl was going to her locker when a boy ran up and started stabbing her in the back with scissors.

Obviously, this country does not have enough systems in place to identify and deal with the mentally ill, from infancy to adulthood. Something needs to be done to identify mentally ill students, especially in Colorado, where they seem to breed ‘em.

LONGMONT, Colo. (KMGH) - A 14-year-old girl was stabbed seven times in a crowded hallway at Silver Creek High School as her classmates watched in horror.

The girl, who has not been identified, was transported to Longmont United Hospital with minor, non-life-threatening injuries.

Students and staff members who witnessed the incident subdued a 14-year-old boy until police arrived at the scene. He is currently in police custody, facing charges of attempted first-degree murder, attempted first-degree assault and second-degree assault.

Last August, Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich signed into law a “teen driving bill“, intended to reduce the number of high school kids killed each year behind the wheel. The measure includes extending the learning permit phase, driving curfews, limits on the number of people in the car, and something that is causing consternation amongst a group of high schools, six hours of district provided driver’s education. Nineteen high schools in Illinois are seeking a waiver from the requirement, stating that providing that extra level of instruction is cost prohibitive:

Abiding by the six-hour rule could cost each school district hundreds of thousands of dollars more, and state officials who had promised to fund those higher costs have yet to secure the money.

So the schools are asking for permission from the General Assembly to skirt the law. Apart from concerns over additional costs, school representatives contend that their driver’s education programs are effective just the way they are.

“I don’t think anyone has a problem with what’s behind the law,” said Scott Eggerding, director of curriculum and instruction at Lyons Township High School, one of the schools seeking a waiver. “It’s just a question of how do we do it so that we can offer the best experience for our students.”

Schools should just ban cell phones in my opinion.

We survived all the way through elementary, jr. high school, and college without cell phones and believe or not, we graduated and still had a social life.

Police and school district officials are investigating several Farmington Junior High teenagers who traded nude photos of themselves over cell phones.

The latest incident is the third time this school year that Farmington schools have caught students trading photos of their genitals and other nude shots, said Christopher Williams, a spokesman for the Davis School District.

“This type of technology creates problems,” Williams said. “Imagine being a teacher trying to teach a class and you’ve got students sharing inappropriate photos of each other. You’re not going to have the attention of the students.”

You think?

If schools are looking to send a message to students that cheat or steal, they may be successful:

The parents of nine high school students accused of breaking into Hanover High School in New Hampshire are furious that school officials turned the case over to local police. The police prosecutor brought criminal charges against the students who allegedly broke into a teacher’s filing cabinet and stole exams. Their parents are now being told that if they choose to take the case to trial, misdemeanor charges could be raised to felonies.

What is truly offensive is the authors willingness to hang these kids out to dry as a lesson to be learned for the entire world:

As the mother of two teenagers, I agree. But it is also scary to hear a parent equate an allegation of breaking and entering as “one little mistake.” This is, at minimum, a very big mistake.

Today, cheating is routinely dismissed as no big deal. A stadium filled with New England Patriots fans sent that message to Coach Bill Belichick after he was fined $500,000 for illegally filming the signals of New York Jets coaches in the season opener.

So, according the author, we should ruin the lives of stupid teenagers because professional athletes cheat? I think the author’s comparison is midguided. Kids do stupid things. Are teenagers supposed to be sacrificed for the good of moral servitude?

I’m not suggesting that these punk teens get away with what they did. Stealing is a crime. They should face consequences, but if they have no prior convictions, they should be scared straight but not ruined with prison terms.

People get away with murder in this country, literally, they get away with murder and child abuse and yet we want to ruin these kids lives for being really, really stupid. Well, I’ve got news for you, teenagers ARE stupid. They do really stupid things. They should be taught a lesson, not ruined. The weight of the worlds wrong doings should not lie on their shoulders. Let’s do the right thing here, but not make these kids scapegoats. This isn’t the land of the Taliban after all. The punishment should fit the crime.