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6 year old expelled over toy gun allowed back into school
A 6-year-old South Carolina girl will be allowed back in school after being expelled early in January for bringing a toy gun for “show and tell,” school officials said Thursday. Naomi McKinney was expelled from Alice Drive Elementary in Sumter, S.C. on Jan. 7, according to a Wednesday report WLTX-TV.…
Student: School threatened to arrest porn star prom date
A high school in Oakdale, Minnesota has officially banned a student from bringing a porn star to his senior prom because it is “not in the best interest of students.” Realizing that he was about to graduate without ever having been to a prom, Mike Stone, 18, set out to…
Jury finds VA Tech negligent in shooting deaths
A jury in Christiansberg, Virginia has ruled that officials at Virginia Tech were negligent on April 16, 2007, the day of the infamous shooting rampage that left 32 people dead and 25 injured, according to a report from ABC affiliate station WJLA. The jury of seven was given the case…
Iowa: school officials strip-search five teen girls
And why does the school board reserve the right to do this — no parental consent required? Family members said this week that Atlantic high school officials forced five teenage girls to remove their clothes during an investigation into a theft. The girls' families and their lawyers said the incident…
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