Tag: High School
An Iowa carpenter used his life savings to send 33 kids to college
An Iowa carpenter spent a lifetime saving money to help send students to school. Fourteen years after his death, his funds have sent 33 people to college.
Hundreds of teachers are preparing for ‘Train a Teacher Day,’ where they’ll learn how to shoot guns
Nearly 300 gun shops around the US will offer free firearm training courses for teachers and promote campus carry policies.
A high school gave 336 students fake AP exams when the district didn’t have funding to pay for the real ones. Students didn’t find out unt...
At Mainland High School in Volusia County, Florida, 336 students were given fake AP exams because the district couldn't pay for the tests.
A New York public-school principal has resigned after a teacher showed her class a video of anti-abortion activists pretending to be an unborn fetus
Three months after a New York City teacher was criticized for showing her class an anti-abortion video, the school's principal is stepping down.
53 years after he dropped out of school to fight in the Vietnam War, a Michigan man finally received his high school diploma
Paul Masters was just a few credits shy of graduating high school when he left to join the navy. Now he's holding his diploma for the first time.
New York high school students held a ‘silent graduation’ to help a classmate with autism
The graduating class at Carmel High School stood together in silence so their fellow classmate, who's hypersensitive to sound, felt comfortable.
A high school principal was removed from his position after refusing to call the Holocaust a ‘factual historical event’
A Florida high school principal has been removed over comments made over a year ago where he refused to call the Holocaust a historical fact.
A high school valedictorian came out as bisexual in his graduation speech and his classmates gave him a standing ovation
Mason Bleu, an 18-year-old from New York, came out as bisexual during his valedictorian speech. Bleu told INSIDER he was nervous but glad he did it.
A high school chemistry experiment that went horribly wrong left a boy permanently disfigured, and a jury just awarded him $60 million
Alonzo Yanes was 16 years old in 2014 when he was left badly burned from a botched chemistry experiment conducted by his teacher, Anna Poole.
A high school fired a gay teacher in order to save its ‘Catholic identity’ and remain affiliated with Archdiocese
Cathedral High School officials said the decision was made so it could remain affiliated with the Archdiocese of Indianapolis.