Principal Allegedly Chokes Student
Did the kids tap out by saying "uncle?"
How do you plan to argue your way out of this one? Is he also eating pieces of the turn-buckle and spitting it at his students as well.
What kind of environment are we promoting that we hire administrators who feel they are obligated to put young girls in strangleholds as a first line of defense.
I remember fearing a detention slip, not a death grip.
Principal Allegedly Chokes Student
Smells Like: Mississippi , principal , violenceSchool Guard Accused Of Breaking Student's Arm
Smells Like: California , safety , violence
School Guard Accused Of Breaking Student's Arm
I'm sure there are two sides to every story, but the headline to this one may as well read: "Cops prove how tough they are by man-handling a helpless 15-year old girl."
Let's be serious here. What's the worst harm this girl could have been causing the school staff that it was necessary for two huge dudes to tackle her and break her arm?
Since it's California, we're positive these guards have a rich history of being racist and couldn't wait for the opportunity to rage out on an entire black family. Let's just relax for a minute and not get so upset that you probably lost the starting full-back position to a black kid when you were in high school.
Apparently the biggest threat to school safety is a 100-pound girl dropping cake on the floor. I can remember kids bringing in butterfly knives and only getting referrals. The only thing this girl will be getting out of her education is perpetuating young black anger and distrust towards white authority.
Great job guys! Keep the outstanding work!
Va. teacher fired for buttocks art sues
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Va. teacher fired for buttocks art sues
Maybe if a teacher's salary was at a livable wage, this guy wouldn't have to "moonlight" by making butt art.
Every teacher I knew had a part-time job on the side. My school wasn't in an uproar when we learned our music teacher worked at a beer distributer three nights a week.
And this guy won teacher of the year! Let's honor a teacher when he makes an impact in the classroom and not scrutinize his social hobbies outside of the school.
One day you are turning in quarterly grades for the report card and the next day you’re wired off coke trying to bury your TV in the snow in your front lawn. But I'm OK with this teacher showing me CPR and the breast-stroke.
As adults, we come to grips with the fact that not everyone is perfect and as long as we maintain our professionalism while on the clock, then there's nothing to worry about.
Leave this guy alone.
108 Students Suspended Over Dress Code
Smells Like: dress code , Indiana , policy
"The number of students who were suspended equates to about 3 percent of the entire student body at Arsenal Tech."108 Students Suspended Over Dress Code
TheTruth Says:
Fashion is exponential -- each generation is trying have the same visual impact as the one before, yet with each generation society numbs to the extremes, so as the trend setters look to shock and expand boundaries, or simply, to get attention, they need to push harder and harder. Of course, this is often hard for the minds of principals, school boards, and parents to deal with.
Hall Monitor Says:
It was also discovered that each student that does not have blond hair and blue eyes was expelled from the school. And for some unforeseen reason, teen pregnancy spiked coincidently the same day that 108 students were suspended.
What are we trying to prove here? Is the cafeteria going to start serving prison meals? And the students will be stripped searched after eating to make sure they didn't turn their spoon handle into a shank?
This is a public high school, a tech school at that, and they're coming down on 15 year old kids for wearing a shirt with a Nike logo? This is a far stretch from the "Big Johnson" and Bart Simpson "Who the Hell are you" shirts of the early 90's.
Let's start holding schools accountable for producing good citizens with values and an education, not a bunch of graduates who will be too scared to take a job outside of accounts receivable because they've learned the consequences of taking risks and having an imagination.
Teacher loses fight to take gun to class
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Teacher loses fight to take gun to class
"I'm about to give a Newtonian demonstration, of a bullet, it's mass, and it's acceleration." - MC Hawking
I think this teacher was demonstrating great logic. What parent wouldn't feel comfortable knowing that educators keep live weapons on their person? Is she that delusional that she thinks the Bill of Rights has got her back on this one? Charlton Heston gave way too many people a boner when he starting preaching about bearing arms. We may as well put every child through a hunter's safety course and allow them all to bring firearms to school. We will let them to use their own judgment on when to open rounds. As long as they feel their safety was threatened, the ends should justify the means. Freedom isn't the right to carry a gun around children in school. We need less neurotic faculty teaching students and not ones that compromise my freedom by coming up with idiotic ideas like this. I had a physics teacher who used to smoke in the classroom. We never knew this because we saw him do this, but we knew because every day when we came back from lunch at 12:45 the class smelled like Marlboro Reds. I don't want to have to come back from lunch and find bullet casings and gun powder on the floor...it makes me feel a little more uneasy than a pack of smokes.
TED.com is Awesome
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Bullet Proof Vests for Teachers
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Some teachers are turning to bullet proof vests to wear in schools. These vests from Security Solutions are perfect for any teacher who wants an extra layer of protection.
DetentionSlip Rocks Washington DC
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This past weekend DetentionSlip's Anthony David Adams; Gerry Morton of EnergyFirst; Summit Series' Elliott Bisnow & Jeff Rosenthal; and Kim Pingleton of Compass FX took first place in the VIP Scavenger Hunt at Yanik Silver's Underground 5. We ran through Washington, D.C. and ended up being the only team to complete every task. A+ for completeness! Underground is an elite forum of the worlds top internet entrepreneurs / media experts; we were fortunate enough to be invited as VIPs this year.
02/17/2009 - High school buddies named by Time as blogosphere’s best
Smells Like: press releaseFOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
February 17, 2009
High school buddies named by Time as blogosphere’s best
Running an underground school newspaper in Erie, Pennsylvania is a long way from achieving international media credibility, but that’s just what high school buddies Anthony David Adams and Chuck Steinfurth achieved today, named among the best bloggers in the world by Time Magazine.
Earlier today the pair’s irreverent blog, Detentionslip.org – referred to as the Perez Hilton of education news for its reports on gun-carrying Texas teaches and students handcuffed over skimpy prom dresses - defeated millions of blogs around the world to secure a coveted spot on Time’s Top 25 Blogs of 2009.
Co-creators and former classmates, Adams and Steinfurth, entered the world of dissident education news with an underground student newspaper as juniors in high school, and following multiple censorship attempts – including a threatened law suit - shot to local infamy for their witty exposes on clandestine school happenings.
This formative experience would inspire the pair’s post-college reunion some ten years later to create Detentionslip.org – a blog dedicated to shining a defiant, yet tongue-in-cheek, spotlight on the misdeeds and mishaps of the public school system – providing fodder for prominent education columnists such as Scholastic’s Alexander Russo.
Talking from his New York base, co-creator and serial entrepreneur Anthony David Adams, whose parents are both educators, said he was astounded at Detentionslip’s virtual overnight success.
“Even though we had ambitious goals, neither of us thought that within a year our site would be widely regarded as one of the top sites in this space.
“When you look at hyper-growth online media companies like Google and Facebook, you realize there is really no predicting how quickly these things can take off.”
Adams said plans for the short term included the exploration of partnerships with other media outlets to leverage content and continue to grow as the top source for education news in the country.
Time Magazine’s Top 25 Blogs of 2009 ranks the best in class blogs politics and global affairs to shopping and sports, from millions of blogs worldwide.
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DetentionSlip in the Scholastic Hot Seat
Smells Like: awards , pressStory: Detention Slip Duo Will See You Now
Last friday, we had a great 90 minute chat with Alexander Russo over at Scholastic's This Week in Education. We still get excited anytime we get a link on the site, so making the decision to grant our debut exclusive interview was an instant decision.
Also, we noticed that Scholastic was offering a content widget, so we went ahead and plagarized it. You can now stream DetentionSlip.org headlines to your site / blog with the Official DetentionSlip Widget.
* the above photo was originally featured on The Pub website in 1998. The underground high school newspaper was created by DetentionSlip.org co-creators Anthony David Adams (right) and Chuck Steinfurth (Left). It's over 10 years old, but we still look the same.
POLITICAL CARTOONS
Below are ten of our favorite education-based political cartoons from around the web. The topics range from budget cuts, to discipline, to technology and beyond. Please use the comment section to help rank them and voice which ones hit home the most.
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