"Tebowing" may be a bit old as internet memes go (we much prefer evil cows at the moment). But should the act of taking a knee like quarterback Tim Tebow be a punishable offense? A high school in Florida seems to think so.
Most high school seniors struggle with choosing a quote for their picture in the yearbook. After all, it's like a tattoo in its permanence and painfulness to remove. Some kids opt for the philosophical, others inspirational, while the most regretful select something so dated, it causes violent flashbacks when read. Then, there are the comical quotes.
Graduation is just around the corner, and now is the time for high schoolers to start deciding what college they want to attend next semester and college grads to choose a career with the least potential for unemployment benefits in two years.
Some, however, won’t get a diploma that they can hang on their wall (assuming that they make enough to afford a frame for it). Here some ways to tell if you’ll be one of them.
An innocent-sounding prank at an Indiana high school prompted some very serious suspensions and even a janitor losing his job.
In this powerful video by the Illinois Safe Schools Alliance, an organization dedicated to promoting healthy development for gay youth, young people share highly emotional and personal anecdotes about the struggles they've faced growing up gay.
Matawan-Aberdeen Middle School in New Jersey is officially a no-hugging zone.
In fact, if any of the school's students engage in any kind of physical embrace inside of its halls they risk detention.
Max Paradise insists the majority of his classmates at Cypress Charter High School in Live Oak, CA encouraged him to make his graduation speech primarily about the children's toy and cartoon, 'My Little Pony.' So he did, but what's even more surprising is the number of ways these magical characters are apparently just like high school students.
A substitute teacher in the Bronx faces some serious criminal charges for administering some playground justice on one of his pupils.
Rosemount High School in Minnesota pulled an awesome prank on some of their winter sports captains that they'll either look back at and laugh or describe to their therapist.
In what's surely a milestone for gay rights, two high school students recently became one of the nation's first lesbian couples to be elected homecoming king and queen.
Senior Rebeca Arellano and her girlfriend Haileigh Adams were named king and queen, respectively, at Patrick Henry High School in San Diego. And while the move has elicited praise from many quarters, it's also proved to be highly controversial.