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Saratoga High School in New York will have breathalyzer for each student attending prom next month. It will be at the front door to ensure that every student will attend prom in a sober fashion. Their principal says the new guideline is in response to growing concerns about student safety and alcohol use. Mostly all of the students of this school said its a good idea and they like this idea. They think that students should be checked for this since its not legal for anyone underage to do no matter the circumstances.

This is a good idea because there are probably many students who would show up to prom under the influence of alcohol.

It makes sense to use precautions like this. Every year there's students who drink before prom and usually get arrested. Doing this might affect how many people actualy do drink before prom. Also it will cut down on the dangers of drunk driving.

Student loans debt surpassed credit card debt for the first time ever in 2010. It is predicted that the debt will top a trillion dollars this year. In 2008 two-thirds of students who graduated with a bachelor's degree were in debt after school. The average amount of debt for students in college for the 2011 school year was $24,000. There have been many predictions that the debt will increase because of budget-slashing. Economists say "while debt may be a bad thing it is a healthy investment."

College student working on project to turn food waste into energy. He is studying was to converting biomass waste into liquid fuel known as butanol.

This topic is one of the most discussed alternet energy resolutions today, but hardly funded. Its possible that this college student will get somewhere, but also nowhere without funding to back up his research.

Reminder from a teacher that a test is a simple snapshot of what a child may be able to do.

A student at the College of the Atlantic is working on a project to change food waste into energy. He has been studying ways possibilities of converting biomass waste into liquid fuel known as butanol.

Wow cool good for him that would be really cool for him if he did that because then maybe that would change the world.

A Lackawanna man was arrested on drug charges. The man was also part of the Mid Vally school district.

I think he should have been fired also because no one should be doing drugs. Since he worked for a school he should of definetly been against it but he wasnt. If you want to do drugs it is your own fault for risking your job.

He should not be aloud around the school and he should be kicked of the school borad for selling drugs....we need to get drugsd of the streets and now adults are giveing them to kids to use or even sell . that is not right

Introduction to Twitter for my students and my school.  Includes explanatory videos and helps to show the value of Twitter for personal and social learning.

Using Twitter to facilitate class discussions

According to the University of Michigan's annual survey of the Nation's adolescents, in 2006, about one- fifth of U.S. seniors smoked monthly, down from more than one-third who did so in 1996. Signs in the most recent surveys indicate that smoking among younger teenagers might be on the rise. The cost of cigarettes, usually a strong predictor of a decline in teen smoking, continues to rise. Yet more than 40% of high school students today have tried smoking before they graduated. The only thing left to do is to raise the legal purchasing age to 21.

Well you know today 12 year old children can simply get cigarettes with the slightest ease. So I really don't think its such a big deal, but if I was the Cigarette company I sure would be. Also Next where going to have to be 30 to drink and 26 as an official adult. FREEEEEEDOOOOMMMMM!!!!! lol

I think the price should be doubled, maybe even tripled. There are no benefits to smoking at all. Just a way for tough guys to waste money maybe. If the prices are raised, people will still buy them I know. But that just goes to show you how addicting they are. Better yet, the age should be changed to 21. Change both of those variables and you'll see a positive change in our citizens, thats my opinion though.

A soldier gets 24 years behind bars for killing Afghan civilians in a "sport" or "game". Also 5 other soldiers are getting 22 or more years for participating.

I understand that there are certain people who need to be killed, the people who are doing harm to the civilians are in the wrong. The soldiers are there to kill the bad people, not to make a sick game out of killing innocent people.

James has a really good point, here. What if there is a bit more to the story? Was it truly a completely innocent a civilian? (Mmm... maybe I should go in and actually read the story. The conversation surrounding the article definitely makes it more interesting and makes me want to take a further look into it. Nice job, students!

13 year old boy rescues his friend from falling trough ice and gets award.

this way a really moving story ... how a 13 year old boy rescuse his friend from ice and he got honor for saving his life

Agree with everyone. This was a great story to pick out, Jon! We see, hear, read so much about bullying and cyber-bullying in today's world. We need to focus, too, on students who make it a point to do the right thing. This should certainly serve as motivation for us all!

Another PA parent opts his child out of PSSA standardized testing as a measure of civil disobedience.  Word of caution:  This can very much hurt a school's Adequate Yearly Progress and ultimately the school may suffer.  But, what if this movement spread amongst parents?  What then?  Would the government take over the school?  Change is hard.

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Over 700 people from guatemala was infected with syphilis by U.S researchers some scientists studying the effects of penicillin in the 1940s deliberately infected about 700 Guatemalans and none of them were informed or gave consent.

This was just wrong even though they are in prison you still should not use them as human test subjects. They have a right to the money they are suing for.

A school in chicago bans kids form taking in bagged lunches to protect them from them their own unhealthly choices. So then that they will eat better and eat healthy and watch their weight. But is it really better for kids to eat the school are they safe and healthy. Students must eat lunch or not some of them both but most of it was thrown away in the trash. Some kids parents think that it is a good idea but others think that its bad. Because what if you are picky and dont like the school linch or what they are severing then what do u do. Also plus what if you have allregys to some foods then what do you do. What would you do.

Recently seven of the Mount Carmel Area Odyssey of the Mind teams went to Williamsport. Three out of the seven teams advanced to world. Odyssey of the Mind is a competition that anyone can compete in. The teams consist of five to seven people. This competition has two parts. The first is your long term problem. At the beginning of the season you pick a problem. There are five total. You then have to solve this problem within an eight minute skit and meet all of the regulations. The second part is spontaneous. The team enters a room with three judges. You can receive a hands-on problem, a hands-on verbal problem, or a verbal problem. Each problem varies on topics and you have a specific amount of time. You are also limited to how many times you may answer. Each of your teams received 1st or 2nd place at the state competition. They will be going to the University of Maryland where they will compete for a world title. Spontaneous and the long term problems are on separate days. Pin trading and shirt trading are only two of the many activities to do during their time there.

Hope u have a good time. Good luck and hope u win.

The first time in a lone time that our odyssey of the mind made it to worlds. Good luck and great job at worlds, Congratulations and i hope you win at worlds.