RE: EDUCATION

The most important thing I learned in school this year

"What I learned this year is that the President is not someone to mock. Even if he is an idiot and a war criminal who deserves to be hanged, and even if no one in the media has the balls to say so. (You shouldn't say balls either.)" -- Billy Wilson, 15, a High School sophomore in Freyburg, Maine, from of the essay section of the final exam in his English class.

Big stink over students poem

Bill Nevins, a New Mexico high school teacher was fired and classes in poetry and the poetry club at Rio Rancho High School were permanently terminated. It had everything to do with extremist politics.
Teenage student Courtney presented one of her poems before an audience at Barnes & Noble bookstore in Albuquerque, then read the poem live on the school's closed-circuit television channel.
A school military liaison and the high school principal accused the girl of being "un-American" because she criticized the war in Iraq and the Bush administration's failure to give substance to its "No child left behind" education policy.