Arizona Principal Hesitates to Excuse Absences of GI's Kids

When her husband comes home to Tucson on leave from Iraq, Keila Rios could face a dilemma she finds infuriating.

She plans to take their children out of school for a week to spend time with their Army dad.
But when she asked for makeup work they could do at home, she initially was told they'd receive zeros if they didn't go to class.

The head of the charter school they attend declared the absences inexcusable and told the Arizona Daily Star that Rios' children would not be allowed to make up missed assignments.

It now seems the principal is reconsidering.

This from FoxNews.

School Sued Over Teen's 'Winnie the Pooh' Socks

FoxNews reports:

A seventh-grader might end up in court for wearing

Winnie the Pooh socks to school.

Toni Kay Scott, 14, was sent to an in-school suspension program called Students With Attitude Problems last year for violating a dress code, according to a lawsuit against the Napa Valley Unified School District and Redwood Middle School.

She had donned socks with the Tigger character from the Winnie the Pooh cartoons on them, along with a denim skirt and a brown shirt with a pink border.

But the school's policy requires students to wear clothes with solid colors in blue, white, green, yellow, khaki, gray, brown and black. Permitted fabrics are cotton twill, corduroy and chino. No denim is allowed.

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Comment: If you don't know anything else about this case, what do youu think about a school that names their in-school suspension program, "Students With Attitude Problems?!"

Five Bucks for the Beer. Telling all your friends about the great party...priceless!

A South Carolina assistant high school principal and his wife — a middle school teacher — were accused Wednesday of throwing a summer keg party where students paid $5 to drink, officials said.

John and Mary Clark turned themselves in to police and were charged with contributing to the delinquency of a minor.

FoxNews tells the tale.