7 red-haired students were attacked, authorities saySource: The L.A. Times
See now this kind of crap pisses me off -
At least four red-haired girls and three boys are now believed to have been victims of the so-called ginger attacks at a Calabasas middle school that were inspired by a Facebook message, a Los Angeles County sheriff's investigation has …

Junior Achievement had an office on the South Side of Milwaukee at one time.
Boy's Killing, Labeled a Hate Crime, Stuns a TownSource: The New York Times
Hundreds of mourners gathered at a church here on Friday to remember an eighth-grade boy who was shot to death inside a junior high school computer lab by a fellow student in what prosecutors are calling a hate crime.
Finding history, dead ahead - The Boston GlobeSource: The Boston Globe
Looking closer, past protruding branches and a mossy, leaf-ridden floor, the remnants of smashed headstones clutter the area. Remains of stone pillars where family plots were marked are hidden there. Claypit Cemetery is Dracut's oldest burial ground.
Abe to play hardball with soft education system in JapanSource: Japan Times
When Prime Minister Shinzo Abe took office last month, he vowed to reorganize the public school system to boost students' academic performance and to foster a newly defined sense of "patriotism," something critics also fear may make speaking out by those opposed to this bent a so …

At my school, the Lynhurst Seventh and Eighth Grade Center in Indianapolis, Indiana, iPods are somewhat strictly not allowed at school.