Randall Chase reports: State lawmakers have given final approval to a bill prohibiting universities and colleges in Delaware from requiring that students or applicants for enrollment provide their social networking login information. The bill, which unanimously passed the Senate shortly after midnight Saturday, also prohibits schools and universities from requesting that a student or applicant log…
Category: Youth & Schools
NC: Clinton third-grader strip-searched after being accused of stealing
Okay, it’s bad enough that students get strip-searched in schools without seemingly having any right to refuse or to demand a parent or lawyer. But for the building administrator to then issue a statement on the incident that names the student and reveals additional details about the student and his record, well, DOES ANYONE UNDERSTAND…
Three wrongs and a right
I am still scratching my head over a situation in Greece, New York that went viral on the Internet. It started with four middle-school students tormenting and verbally harassing a grandmotherly bus matron. For the most part, she didn’t respond to their nasty comments, but the kids just continued and escalated. One of the tormenters…
MN: Boys gave girl $5, soda to be locker room spy
Last month I noted a situation in a middle school in Minnesota where numerous students had been suspended, and I wondered why it required police involvement. Today, Meena Hart Duerson provides additional details in the Daily News: Earlier this year, students at Century Middle School in Lakeville began taking photos of girls’ behinds in the…