Dress Codes and Hair

Posted May 28th, 2008 by Freckles Cassie in Education, Featured Stories, FrecklesCassie, Texas, Young Adult Issues, children, kids, schools, teens 5 Comments »

girl suspended for highlights in her hair

One of the very first posts I ever wrote for my other blog was about dress codes. At the time, in Dress codes at school and at work, I asked people’s opinions about dress codes and was fairly comfortable with my school’s policy. I wrote about it again when a student (and her family) sued her school about Tigger and Winnie the Pooh socks.

Now I am glad that my school isn’t as restrictive as Desert Wind School in Socorro, TX. There, an 8th grader is missing prom and graduation because of highlights in her hair. Not purple highlights. Not 5 foot long extensions. Just highlights. And I think she looks pretty cute!

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New York kids stand up AGAINST standardized tests

Posted May 22nd, 2008 by Freckles Cassie in Activism, Education, Featured Stories, FrecklesCassie, Young Adult Issues, kids, schools, teens, testing 3 Comments »

I wish my friends and I had thought of this!  Maybe next year.  Time to kill the tests from the grassroots, and that means us in our classrooms.  And I hope that the teacher gets OUT of trouble.

Published on Thursday, May 22, 2008 by New York Daily News
New York 8th-Graders Boycott Practice Exam But Teacher [...]

Texas at its Stupidest

Posted May 6th, 2008 by Freckles Cassie in Featured Stories, FrecklesCassie, Health, Opinion, Politics, Texas, addiction 2 Comments »

I am sure that the legislators in Texas know that needle exchanges are much safer for drug addicts and for the public, but they’d rather act all judgmental towards addicts and the people who live near them. Sometimes I hate Texas! What is it like to live in a state that cares about the people?

Texas’ [...]

No teenage rebellion in Thailand!

Posted May 6th, 2008 by Freckles Cassie in FrecklesCassie, Secondary Featured Stories, Young Adult Issues, news, teens 1 Comment »

If you’re in Thailand, better stand up when you’re supposed to!

Thai student accused of king insult
from AL JAZEERA

Failure to stand for king’s anthem could land student with 15 year jail term.

On Prisons and Prisoners

Posted March 2nd, 2008 by Freckles Cassie in FrecklesCassie, Mental Illness, Moral Issues, Opinion, Politics, Secondary Featured Stories, Texas, crime, poverty, prison, prisons 1 Comment »

I write about prisons and prisoners a lot, so you might never know that it’s a really hard subject for me to write about, but it is. It’s not just numbers and statistics and information; it’s family. My mom is in prison, on drug charges, and would be much better off in a drug treatment [...]