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F-Word Endorsed . . .

. . . By one school in Britain: > Pupils are being allowed to swear at one Northamptonshire secondary school - as long as they limit their use of bad language to five times a lesson. > A tally of how many times the f-word is used will be kept on the board.

Helicopter Parents

Interesting article about "helicopter parents": folks who hover over their children at college, complaining and intervening at every level. Link [http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20050828/ap_on_re_us/college_helicopter_parents]. Excerpt: > Heightened parental involvement is one of the biggest changes on college campuses

Leftist Law Professors? Say It Ain't So

> Professors at the best law schools are generally assumed to be overwhelmingly liberal, and now a new study lends proof. . . > The study, to be published this fall in The Georgetown Law Journal, analyzes 11 years of records reflecting federal campaign contributions by professors at the top 21 law

Hey, Snickers, Leave Those Kids Alone

You can't get a bag of chips, but you can get the morning-after pill. > Food for thought is taking on a new meaning as students across the nation begin a new school year. Chicago is just one of many school districts that have mobilized to replace high-fat,

Top Party Schools

According to the Princeton Review: 1. University of Wisconsin-Madison 2. Ohio University-Athens 3. Lehigh University 4. University of California-Santa Barbara 5. State University of New York at Albany 6. Indiana University-Bloomington 7. University of Mississippi 8. University of Iowa 9. University of Massachusetts-Amherst 10. Loyola University New Orleans 11. Tulane

Like This Somehow Compromises Public U's Integrity

> Two employees at a Florida university with access to computer databanks have been charged with accepting cash -- and one with accepting sex -- in exchange for changing the grades of dozens of students, authorities said. > Ellis Peet and Clifton Franklin allegedly used generic passwords or those belonging

Home Schooling Looking Better All the Time

We're tellin' ya, it's an epidemic: > Meet Kristen Margrif. The Michigan woman, 27, is a high school English teacher. So can you guess why she was just arrested? That's right, Margrif has been accused of having sex with a 16-year-old male student

Brothel U

According to this article, college campuses have a big sex problem. Whatta revelation! But the article also says college adminstrators are actually recognizing it and taking steps to curb it. That is welcomed news. Link [http://www.americasnewspaper.com/bottom.shtml]. Excerpts: > "Parents and college officials must do

Call Him Gay and You Will Pay

We despise bullying and the public school administrators who tolerate it in the name of "toughening up" a kid. But this case is a little scary. A boy was repeatedly taunted for being gay (he isn't, ear ring notwithstanding), and he successfully sued under Title IX.

Another Pro-Condom Public School Teacher

We mentioned a few months ago that it seems like stories about public school teachers' indiscretions could be a regular feature on our blog. The Smoking Gun has noticed a similar thing. From their e-mail bulletin: > It's now getting to the point where we could probably