Texas continues to debate its policy of randomly testing student athletes for steroid use especially after it was reported last month that only 2 students tested positive out of a total of 10,000 students tested. GritsforBreakfast recently offered some of the pros and cons of these random tests.
Since I’ve argued against continued steroid testing [...]
It appears that the legality of home schooling in California may depend on the California Court of Appeals’ re-decision in the Rachel L. case.
According to the Concurring Opinions blog and the Yale Law Journal :
The recent decision of the California Court of Appeal in the Rachel L. case set off a storm of protest from [...]
In another students’ rights issue similar to last week’s post on the clash between Native American Beliefs and a school’s dress code, the Student Press Law Center and Legal Blog Watch reported that a high school student was banned from wearing a John Edwards T-Shirt at school because it violated the school’s policy of prohibiting [...]
A boy, was ordered by a rural school district (Needville ISD) located outside of Houston to cut his waist length hair due to its violation of the school district’s dress code. However, as reported by the Houston Chronicle, Michelle Betenbaugh, the boy’s mother, says that cutting his hair would conflict with his Native [...]
As reported in the Houston Chronicle, Houston Judge Bars Valedictorian From Commencement, U.S. District Judge David Hittner upheld Fort Bend Independent School District’s decision to preclude Khurrum Khan, the valedictorian at George Bush High School, from graduation ceremonies. Khan had been excluded from the ceremonies due to his alleged role in the theft of and [...]
