August 23, 2007: Teen Hit By Train While Texting, Survives A teenage boy who was writing a text message on his phone as he crossed a set of train tracks was hit by an oncoming train. He survived but is seriously injured. Click here to read more.   August 23, 2006 Teen Gets Suspended for "Drawing" Gun School officials in Chandler, Arizona recently suspended an eighth-grade boy for 5 days because he had drawn a doodle of a gun on his homework. The gun was one of many sketches drawn in the margins of his assignment. Click here to read more.   July 6, 2005 Tweens Kidnap Baby, Demand Ransom Two sisters, ages 10 and 12, allegedly kinapped their neighbors' one-year-old son and demanded $200,000 for his return. Click here to read the article.   June 19, 2007 Virginia School Bans Touching of Any Kind Most schools have rules against "inappropriate contact," but at Kilmer Middle School in Virginia students may face disciplinary action for holding hands, hugging, or giving each other a high-five. Click here to read the article.   May 15, 2007 Sixth-Grade Teachers Stage Fake Gunman Attack As Prank "Staff members of a Murfreesboro [Tennessee] elementary school staged a fake gunman attack during a school trip, telling them it was not a drill as children cried and hid under tables." Click here to read more.   May 14, 2007 Teen Becomes Indiana's Youngest Coroner 18-year-old Amanda Barnett, a CSI fan and daughter of a coroner, last month became Indiana's youngest certified death investigator. Click here to read more.   April 2, 2007 "For girls, it's be yourself and be perfect, too" Talented teenage girls who seem to do everything well feel growing pressure to be perfect. They get mixed messages from parents, teachers, and classmates about grades, body image, extracurricular activities, and plans for the future. Click here to read more.   March 15, 2007 Hormone Research May Explain Teenage Moodiness New research suggests that hormones that have a calming effect on adults and young children actually have the opposite effect on adolescents. From Reuters. Click here to read more.   February 21, 2007 Teens Beating, Killing Homeless People for Sport Violent crimes against homeless persons have risen to their highest level in nearly a decade. Sadly, for some teens attacking homeless people has become a means of amusement. Click here to read more.   February 14, 2006 Classwork Peppered With IM Lingo Middle school and high school teachers across the country are noticing "instant messaging-speak" in their students' homework assignments and essays. Click here to read more.   February 8, 2006 University Auctions Tuition on eBay Oklahoma Wesleyan University in Bartlesville, Oklahoma is auctioning a year of tuition and room and board on the popular auction website eBay. Click here to read more.   February 6, 2007 Coach Fired for Inappropriate Half-Time Speech A high school basketball coach in Maine was fired after telling his team at halftime to reach into their pants and "check their manhood" (AP). Click here to read more.   January 26, 2007 Our Teens Are Trashed According to a recent Centers for Disease Control (CDC) study, 45 percent of American teens admit to drinking alcohol in the past month; 64 percent of these youth admit to binge drinking (consuming 5 or more alcoholic drinks in a row). Click here to read the article from the General Board of Church and Society of The United Methodist Church.   January 23, 2006 Teens Willingly Joining the Ranks of the In an age when many youth have a mobile phone, an iPod, high-speed Internet access, and a social networking site, some teens have decided that they'd rather be disconnected. Click here to read the blog post from ZDNet Education.   August 31, 2006 Team With Katrina Evacuees Stripped of Title Bastrop High School in Bastrop, Louisiana last year welcomed several evacuees from Hurricane Katrina into its school and onto its football team. The displaced students helped lead the team to a state football title. Now the school has been charged with illegal recruiting and stripped of its title. All of the Katrina-related transfers have been ruled ineligible for the coming season. Click here to read more.   August 28, 2006 Little League Championship Broadcast With 5-Second Delay After a twelve-year-old was overheard dropping a four-letter word on ESPN's broadcast of the Little League World Series, ESPN and ABC were forced to use a five-second delay for the broadcast of Monday afternoon's championship game. Click here to read more.   January 17, 2006 Mothers, Kids Arrested for Fighting at School Two Rhode Island mothers were arrested after one drove her already suspended daughter to school to fight a classmate. Click here to read the article.   December 13, 2006 Teen Driver Clocked at 142 Mph A teen stopped doing 142 mph on a rural Indiana highway told police that he was going so fast so that he could get home and avoid getting in trouble for being late. Click here to read the article.   August 27, 2006 Class of 2006 Gets Highest ACT Scores Since 1991 Congratulations to the Class of 2006. Sure, graduation was a few months ago, but officials with the ACT recently announced that the average composite score on the college entrance exam was 21.1, the highest in fifteen years. Click here to read more.   July 20, 2006 Do Teens Need More Training Before Driving? Studies have shown that one-in-five teens crash their cars in their first year of driving. Some experts are blaming this trend on exemptions from road tests and poorly regulated private driving schools. Click here to read more.   December 7, 2006 Effects of Violent Video Games Linger in Teens' Brains A recent study suggests that violent video games affect emotional responses, self-control and concentration in teens. Click here to read more.   November 1, 2006 Teen Steals Bus and Charges Fares Authorities in Fern Park, Florida say that a 15-year-old boy stole a bus, drove it along a public bus route, and collected fares from riders. When he was arrested, the teen claimed that he drove the bus better than the professional drivers. Click here to read more.   June 22, 2006 Teen, Mom Sue MySpace for $30 Million A 14-year-old Texas girl and her mother are suing popular web community myspace.com for $30 million, claiming that the site failed to protect the girl from an adult sexual predator. The girl alleges she was sexually assaulted by a 19-year-old man she met on the site. Click here to read more.   October 26, 2006 Toy Seller Asked to Stop Selling Pole-Dancing Kit British retailer Tesco has been asked to remove from the toy section its Internet store the Peakaboo pole-dancing kit, which encourages young girls to imitate strippers. Tesco will continue to sell the product (which invites kids to "unleash the sex kitten inside") as a "fitness accessory." Click here to read more.   June 2, 2006: Report on Dating Violence According to new data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 1 in 11 adolescents each year reports being a victim of dating abuse, and these victims are "more likely [than their peers] to engage in binge drinking, suicide attempts, physical fights, and currently sexual activity." Click here to read more.   October 19, 2006: School's Unorthodox Lesson on Cussing Angers Parents A California seventh grader recently told his mother of a classroom activity during which students were to call out every swear word and racial epithet they could think of. According to the school's principal, this activity has been used for a decade to teach tolerance. Click here to read more.   September 7, 2006 Biggest SAT Score Drop in Three Decades While the class of 2006 achieved the highest ACT scores in 15 years, they did not fare as well at the SAT. Administrators of the test recently announced the biggest score drop in 31 years. Click here to read more.

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