From The College Fix: This past week Principal John Fidler of East Hampton High School in Connecticut thought it would be a bright idea to prohibit a longtime school sports cheer consisting of a single…
Topic: high schools
The College Board’s SAT Money Hustle
A recent report alleged that the College Board, the architects of the college entrance exams known today as the SAT, is becoming a profit-driven (yet taxpayer-funded) machine, instead of a business focused on the greater…
To Some Baltimore Students, Dress Code is “Forced Assimilation”
Wait, what? Dress codes impose and force assimilation?
Chicago High School Replaces MLK Jr. Day with Day of Seminars on Race, Islamophobia
Via College Fix: New Trier High School, one of the nation’s top public schools located in Chicago’s posh North Shore, will not have the day off on Martin Luther King, Jr. Day unlike other schools…
Students at a Chicago High School Protest their Free Cafeteria Food
They are demanding better food, which they get for free to begin with. Uh, okay?
Teacher who Blogged about Her Class Loses Free Speech Case in Court
As the College Fix reported, the teacher did not have good things to say about her students: A teacher at Central Bucks High School East in Pennsylvania cannot sue on free speech grounds after being fired…
Only 42% of High School Grads are College Ready, says College Board
Disturbing news as SAT scores are being released.
High School Allows Student to Start Pro-Life Club after Lawsuit Filed
The College Fix reported: A Las Vegas teenager will finally be able to start a pro-life club at her high school, following a short legal battle instigated by the Thomas More Society, a religious-liberty law firm….
SAT Scores Stumble Slightly as More Students Take the Test
NBC News reported: The nonprofit organization, which administers the exam, said in a report released Thursday that the mean score in reading was 495, down from 497 the previous year. For math, it was 511,…
California High School Students who Failed State Exit Exam are Accepted to Universities
Wait, what?! The College Fix said: Thousands of students in California are “in limbo” after being notified that they cannot take the California High School Exit Exam to get the needed high school diploma and…