High School

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 c

In this comedy sketch from Funny or Die, Zoe Jarman and Scott Gairdner evoke adolescence's humiliating awkwardness through the grainy, washed-out magic of VHS.

Mariah Slick, a high school senior from Texas who was born with Down Syndrome, was crowed homecoming queen by her peers in a touching public ceremony.