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Bus Driver Pulls Epic April Fools Prank [VIDEO]

Eric the Intern — Thu, 23 May 2013 01:24:30 +0000

I know April Fools was last month, but this bus driver just posted this hilarious video. Now I used to take the bus to school everyday, I was the first kid on and last one off. So the bus driver and I spent a lot of time together. If my bus driver ever pulled this [...]

Baz Luhrmann's Advice to Graduates

Bethany Lee — Tue, 21 May 2013 18:04:05 +0000

Though the song is 14 years old, the message is still relevant.

Brooklyn School Bans Hipster Glasses

Donald Deane — Sat, 18 May 2013 05:55:31 +0000

In a tacit admission that Brooklyn has become hopelessly overrun by hipsters, a Jewish Orthodox school in Borough Park recently banned the wearing of "thick plastic eyeglasses" among its student body. No word on whether skinny jeans or lumberjack shirts are next.

Parents Start Their Own School

Eric the Intern — Fri, 17 May 2013 01:44:38 +0000

A few weeks before the start of the school year, the city of Indianapolis closed down a charter school called The Project School because of low test scores. That didn’t leave parents much time to find a new place to send their children this year so they decided to start their own school. It’s called [...]

Texas Student Tells Teacher How to Do Her Job, And He's Right [VIDEO]

Kacy Collins — Thu, 09 May 2013 13:42:16 +0000

We all know something isn’t working with the education system here in America. It may be the students or the teachers or maybe even the system as a whole. And finally someone was brave enough to stand up and tell a teacher what she needed to hear. Jeff Bliss, a high school dropout who recently [...]

High School Students Hold Online 'Hotness Contest,' School Does Nothing

Donald Deane — Wed, 08 May 2013 15:27:13 +0000

High school is hard enough, but imagine if you had the added pressure of competing in an online "hotness" contest organized by the male student body. That's currently what's happening at Issaquah High School in Washington state.

33 High School Students Were Suspended For Twerking

Jeremy Taylor — Sat, 04 May 2013 15:25:00 +0000

"Twerking" is the latest dance craze. And by that we mean Miley Cyrus is quite fond of posting videos of herself doing it.

But the administration at Scripps Ranch High School in San Diego are not fond of Twerking. In fact they just suspended 33 students for their o

I Have Graduated From College! Check Out My Senior Documentary [VIDEO]

Eric the Intern — Sat, 15 Dec 2012 03:05:06 +0000

At Midwestern State University to graduate with a degree in Mass Communication you have to do a senior documentary. It is your final grade and you work the whole semester on it. Check out my awesome groups documentary. My group and I decided to do our documentary on the World War 2 Airborne Demonstration Team [...]

Survey Says: Local Public Perception Finds Most College Professors to be Liberal

Candace Eich — Sat, 01 Dec 2012 21:04:02 +0000

From the onset of my college experience I have observed what appears to be a preponderance for “liberal” professors within the social science departments (politics, economics, history, psychology, philosophy etc.) who are maintaining the lion’s share of positions among most of the subjects taught. At times I have detected observable bias from these professors for [...]

Library Wins Lawsuit After Parodying Michael Jackson Song [VIDEO]

Eric the Intern — Thu, 29 Nov 2012 01:59:18 +0000

A little library in Lansdowne Pennsylvania wanted to get kids excited about reading. So they decided to make a song parody video on YouTube. Unfortunately they got into some hot water over this. Check out “Read It” below: So they decided to parody Michael Jackson’s hit song “Beat It”. They cleverly changed the words to [...]

Harvard Students Send Burger into Space [VIDEO]

Eric the Intern — Fri, 09 Nov 2012 02:24:14 +0000

I don’t know what is going on at Harvard these days, but I think some students are getting bored with their free time. A group of friends from Harvard University launched a hamburger into space and recorded it for posterity. Local hamburger chain b.good contributed $1,000 and a rather large burger to the project. The [...]

High School Students Suspended for Eating Caffeinated Mints

Eric the Intern — Tue, 09 Oct 2012 00:53:16 +0000

A group of high school students in Pekin, Illinois were suspended last week after school officials suspected the mints they were eating were actually illegal drugs. Apparently the students were eating Revive energy mints. According to EnergyFiend.com, each mint contains 101 milligrams of caffeine along with guarana, green tea, ginseng, acai, mangosteen and goji. The [...]

Paddling is Still Allowed in Some Texas Schools

Eric the Intern — Wed, 26 Sep 2012 00:50:38 +0000

I had heard about this rumor in one of my law classes about paddling in Texas schools. Now it is legal to do, but most Texas schools don't do it. In fact, I didn't know this was still allowed. The interesting part about this story is that the parents are not mad about the paddling, but who did the paddling.

The 10 Best Back-to-School Apps Will Have You at the Head of the Class

Maura Chwastyk — Wed, 22 Aug 2012 14:53:37 +0000

The weather might be more ice cream trucks and long days at the pool, but the calendar is inching towards yellow buses and new backpacks. Every parent knows about back to school clothes and back-to-school supplies, but nowadays, back-to-school apps are just as important. The best news is there are just as many apps to [...]

Get Worried Parents, Princeton Review Releases Annual College Rankings

Eric the Intern — Tue, 21 Aug 2012 15:52:51 +0000

The Princeton Review just released its annual rankings, where they survey thousands of college students to figure out the best schools in everything from partying and diversity to hippies and jocks. My mom actually read this the year I was deciding what college to go to. At the time University of Maryland was one of [...]

Should Kids Go to School Year-Round? [POLL]

Jeremy Taylor — Thu, 09 Aug 2012 17:47:34 +0000

The two-and-a-half-month summer vacation that kids get was a mid-19th century compromise between rural school districts, which had children who needed to help out on the family farm, and urban districts, which often dealt with extreme heat in the summer. These days, air conditioning can solve the heat problem and there are far fewer farms which [...]

Have You Been Overpaying for Groceries This Whole Time?

Eric the Intern — Wed, 08 Aug 2012 16:26:35 +0000

Would you rather get 50 percent more for the same cost or would you rather get the regular amount at 50 percent off? Click through to find out which will save you money.

5 Crazy Animal Myths That You Probably Believe

Chris Callaway — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 17:32:56 +0000

Mother Outraged Over Daughter's Award for 'Most Homework Excuses'

Jeremy Taylor — Sat, 02 Jun 2012 20:23:48 +0000

Humorous academic superlatives are generally handed out in high school yearbooks. Maybe it’s best to keep it that way because a ”Catastrophe Award” for having the most homework excuses given to a third grader at Desert Springs Academy in Arizona is causing controversy. Eight-year-old Cassandra Garcia was humiliated after being given the end-of-the-year superlative, according to her mother Christina Valdez. “[The teacher] had [...]

Local Pest Control Expert Reveals What's Up With All The Black Beetles in Wichita Falls

Chris Callaway — Tue, 15 May 2012 19:41:31 +0000

I swear, you can't go anywhere in Wichita Falls these days without running into them. The large, black, ground beetle that seems to be everywhere this year. But why so many?