Both boys' and girls' varsity basketball teams from a Northern California high school were disinvited from a tournament because of concerns that players would wear "I Can't Breathe" t-shirts during warm-ups, the Associated Press reports.
A gym teacher has been put on leave and charged with causing injury to a child after he tried to drag a 14-year-old girl into a swimming pool while she screamed and struggled to keep her swimsuit top from falling off. Another student caught everything on video.
A high school powderpuff football team—made up entirely of white girls from the senior class—took the field in full blackface Nov. 5, shocking their principal and everyone who saw the photos on Facebook. But the principal claims there was "nothing racial" about the girls' intent.
A Spanish teacher at a Connecticut high school was pulled out of class in handcuffs with very little explanation last week, and a local news station is reporting he showed up to class visibly drunk and pissed his pants in front of students.
Amid raunchy football-hazing controversies at high schools in Sayreville, N.J. and Doylestown, Pa., a third Northeastern high school has had to launch an investigation into its team because its players couldn't keep their genitals away from each other.
Damn. High school was hard. Remember having to do math every day? Remember this monolith?
A women's soccer coach at a Connecticut high school sent a 10-second Snapchat masturbation video to some of his players, state troopers told the Hartford Courant. The man says the jerk-off vid was intended for his girlfriend, but he inadvertently sent it to the high schoolers instead.
A high school student who got an F in chemistry after she was accused of cheating on a test is suing the school district in an effort to reverse the punishment.
A woman in Hurley, Mississippi was discovered by cops this week stealing items from cars in a high school parking lot, after which she told them she wasn't stealing exactly, she was looking for members of ISIS.
A lesbian couple at a high school in Surprise, Ariz., was denied the right to be nominated for homecoming queen and queen by school administrators, who claimed that a policy prohibits same-sex couples from winning the title.
"She knew exactly what to tell us." For BuzzFeed, Katie J.M. Baker tracked down and spoke with all the families that took in 34-year-old Charity Johnson, who was exposed this past May as having impersonated a 15-year-old Texas high school student.
Draven Rodriguez, a student at Schenectady High School in upstate New York, has a dream for his senior yearbook: that it will include this professional photo of him and his cat, Mr. Bigglesworth, and lasers. "I'm not trying to make any statement," Rodriguez told The Daily Gazette, "other than my photo is ridiculous…
There are a lot of ways for teachers to welcome a new student to school. They could pair her up with a lunch buddy. They could inform her of clubs she might want to join. They could also tell her her skirt is an inch too short and force her to wear a neon yellow oversize T-shirt with "DRESS CODE VIOLATION" emblazoned…
Rachel Pepe, a 13-year-old in Middletown, N.J. who transitioned over the summer from being identified as Brian, has been told by an official at her school district that her gender transition will not be recognized and no accommodations will be made for her when the school year begins again.
It should come as a surprise to no one that before he was Andy on Parks and Rec and Star-Lord in Guardians of the Galaxy, Chris Pratt was a teenage goofball.
Two weeks ago, XO Jane published an essay by a woman who told of being sexually harassed in high school by a teacher who touched her and flirted with her. Now, the incident has become a full blown scandal at one of L.A.'s most prestigious private day schools.
Maya Peterson, the first black female student body president at the prestigious Lawrenceville School near Princeton, N.J., was stripped of her position after posting an Instagram mocking her rich, white, male classmates. Buzzfeed's Katie J. M. Baker obtained the Instagram — above — featuring Peterson dressed up as the…
A high school student was suspended for seven weeks after he sarcastically responded to an anonymous Twitter comment, and now he's suing his school for dragging his reputation through the mud.
Tanishq Abraham, a 10-year-old prodigy who was admitted to Mensa at age four and is better than you, graduated from high school this past weekend with a 4.0 GPA. "It wasn't, like, easy, but it was not that hard either," he told KXTV.
Charity Anne Johnson, who was arrested by police last month after it was discovered she was posing as 15-year-old east Texas high school student "Charity Stevens," was sentenced to 85 days in jail by a judge after pleading guilty to failure to identify. Johnson will also be charged a $277 fine and has already been in…
