NY school suspends girl, 10, for peppermint oil

http://www.buffalonews.com/260/story/904540.html?imw=Y

Ore. school removes holiday tree, bans Santa Claus

http://www.komonews.com/news/local/78647482.html

Mass. principal bans students from saying 'Meep!'

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_odd__meep__ban

Suspended first-grader may get reprieve for bringing camp fork to school

http://blogs.usatoday.com/ondeadline/2009/10/firstgrader-who-brought-camp-utensil-to-school-to-be-sent-to-reform-school.html

Secondary school bans skirts claiming girls are hitching hems to get boys' attention

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1213664/Secondary-school-bans-skirts-claiming-girls-hitching-hems-boys-attention.html

Pa. middle school expels teen with eyebrow shaver

http://www.ajc.com/news/content/shared-gen/ap/Feature_Stories/US_ODD_Shaver_Expulsion.html?cxntlid=inform_artr

Connecticut School Bans Physical Contact

East Shore M.S. Outlaws "High-Fives," "Hugging" And Horseplay Of Any Kind; Violators May Face Expulsion

http://wcbstv.com/local/school.bans.hugs.2.969949.html

Student Kicked Off Bus Over Passed Gas

http://www.theledger.com/article/20090318/NEWS/903185043/1410?Title=Student-Kicked-Off-Bus-Over-Passed-Gas

Needville kindergartner wins battle to keep hair long

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/front/6223788.html

79-year-old crossing guard fired for refusing drug test

Commentary from Helen and Harry Highwater from their Great Unknown News website:

http://www.unknownnews.org/050726saynotodrugs.html

"Toward the end of this article, the victim, Mr Light, says he should have submitted to the drug test after all -- an understandable sentiment, after what he is been through.

But we respectfully disagree.

Mr Light is clearly a good citizen and a good American, and he ought to simply trust his gut reaction:

"It hit me the wrong way," he said. "I'm old, old-fashioned." Chances are, he remembers something from his own school days, called the presumption of innocence.

Or perhaps he remembered the long-forgotten Fourth Amendment:

The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.

Thank you, Mr Light, for standing up for what's right."

School bans the word 'School"

THE head of a new school has banned the word “school” — in case it upsets pupils’ parents.

Watercliffe Meadow is known as a “Place for Learning” because staff say “school” has a negative impact on some mums and dads.

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/article2091812.ece