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• Students Suspended for Hair Dyed Pink in Honor of School Nurse's Battle with Breast Cancer

  It was a rare show of selflessness for a bunch of middle school students, but showing up with strips of pink in their hair last week earned a dozen Indiana pre-teens suspension. The kids said they were doing it in honor of the school nurse who recently passed away after a battle with breast cancer. Their parents are refusing to make the kids wash the pink out of their hair, but the school is firm. Dyed hair, says the principal, is distracting. Read More... Posted Oct 14 2008, 08:27 AM by JeanneSager with | with no comments Filed under: education, schools, teacher, principal, Pink, indiana, breast cancer, breasts, hair, school rules, rumors, gangs, suspended, nurse, Jeanne Sager, pink hair, freedom of expression, hair dye

• Idiotic Idea of the Day: School Bans Tag

  A Colorado Springs school has banned tag. In fact, they banned any game involving chasing. How come? "'It causes a lot of conflict on the playground,' said Assistant Principal Cindy Fesgen. In the first days of school, before tag was banned, she said students would complain to her about being chased or harassed." And it's stories like this that make me wonder if I'm becoming some crotchety libertarian crackpot, poised to start scrawling letters to the editor. Because I think this is ri-stupid-iculous. Here's how my rant will start: "We are raising a nation of namby-pamby kids, unable to resolve conflicts or function in the world because there's a damn ban on everything remotely controversial." Read More... Posted Aug 30 2007, 11:30 AM by Kelly Mills with | with 7 comment(s) Filed under: fitness, kid activities, bans, school rules