Remember those awkward moments on the school bus? Teachers who made your life miserable? Feelings of alienation on the playground and cafeteria? Times haven't change.
Circus City FestivalIn most cases, only highly irresponsible parents let their children walk on ledges and play with fire. But not in Peru, Ind., a longtime hub for circus stars.
Gabriel De Jesus -- the principal of Sacred Heart School for the Arts -- will have to answer to charges of public lewdness and disorderly conduct, after he and another man, both naked, were arrested in the backyard of a vacant suburban home in Westchester, N.Y. A third man, also naked, was arrested shortly after, running through the streets.
Students at North Carolina's High Point University have valet parking, a concierge desk, a steakhouse, and an enormous hot tub in the middle of campus. There's live music in the cafeteria, and a ice cream truck patrolling the grounds giving out free frozen treats.
You know the old school rule: Don't hand out goodies if you don't have enough for everyone. In this school, that also applies to birthday party invitations. The father of the 8-year-old points out that one of the two kids not invited bullied his son, the other excluded the boy from his own party.
David Turano, 18, picked up his diploma at New York's Briarcliff High School, dropped his pants, and celebrated . . . but not for long. Officials took back the sheepskin and he was promptly arrested.
To not offend orphans and kids from nontraditional families, Scottish elementary schools have banned Father's Day cards.
In a Bangkok secondary school, 200 of the 2,600 students consider themselves transvestites, and this growing minority now has a restroom for people who are not quite ladies or gentlemen.
Colleen Leduc, the mother of an autistic 11-year-old girl, was called into school to be informed that there were allegations that her daughter was the victim of sexual abuse. The investigation began when a teaching assistant saw a psychic.
A high school biology teacher from Atlanta was arrested after threatening a student. His father says he was stressed out and caught "between a rock and a hard place."
Naperville (Ill.) Central High School's class of '08 will have quite a legacy (via Chuck Shepherd's News of the Weird)
