high school

It’s important for school officials to be aware of suspicious behavior among students, but Pekin High School in Illinois is cracking down on even the slightest of offenses.

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It seems that prom gets more and more expensive and over the top. I think this is a case of way too much and getting out of control. One mom actually spent over $1,300 on a billboard to help make her daughter prom queen. 

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Here is an idea that just might have opportunities all across America. With so many young people dropping out of school, the state of New Jersey is going to make it more of a challenge to quit.

It's no surprise that kids  between the ages of 6 and 16 are required attend school regularly, but there is a new bill being discussed in the state’s senate seeks to raise the mandatory age of high school attendance to 18.

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How embarrassed would you be to find out you kissed someone while you were blindfolded, but that someone was your mom or dad? There was a prank at Rosemont High School in Minnesota where captains of sports teams were lined up blindfolded and had to guess which student kissed them. When the captains took off their blindfolds, they found out they had kissed their parents in front of the entire school. Catch the video after the jump.

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In an effort to accommodate students with varying levels of advancement and in reaction to state budgetary cuts, at least 30 states in the US now let elementary and high school students take all their courses online.

According to Evergreen Education Group, a consulting firm that works with online schools, an estimated 250,000 students nationwide are enrolled in full-time virtual schools, a 40 percent increase in the last three years. And the International Association for K-12 Online Learning, a trade group, says two million kids take at least one class online.

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Mariah Slick was one of four seniors nominated for homecoming queen at her Azle, Texas high school. But the unexpected happened Friday night at halftime - Mariah, who was born with Down Syndrome, took home the title, and the tiara.

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Yesterday, Erin and I were  talking about a high school in Memphis Tennessee, that currently has 90 pregnant teenage students.

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