Rania Khalek Dispatches from the Underclass

Tag / zero tolerance

Wesley Teague, senior class president at Heights High School in Wichita, Kansas, has been suspended for the rest of the school year and banned from nearly all graduation activities. His crime? He dissed his school’s athletics, nicknamed “Heights U”, on twitter.

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Updated Kiera Roslyn Wilmot, a 16-year-old Florida high school student, had everything going for her as a top-notch student at Bartow High School. But all that changed on Monday, April 23, when Wilmot was arrested and charged with two felonies for “possession/discharge of a weapon on school grounds and discharging a destructive device.” She has been […]

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Sandy Hook has understandably horrified the country and put school’s everywhere on edge. But taking it out on a little kids isn’t going to make schools safer.

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