“A child nutrition bill on its way to President Barack Obama — and championed by the first lady — gives the government power to limit school bake sales and other fundraisers that health advocates say sometimes replace wholesome meals in the lunchroom.” [Associated Press]
Posts Tagged ‘schools’
“I never thought we’d be trademarking a high school logo”
IP worries filter down to the junior football scrimmage. [New York Times]
November 30 roundup
- Sooooo glad to be an American: that’s how Patrick at Popehat feels following latest Canadian-libel-law outrage directed at conservative blogger Ezra Levant (& see comments for alternate view);
- Obama has pardoned more turkeys than people. Why? [Dan Froomkin, HuffPo]
- “Reforming medical malpractice liability through contract” [Michael F. Cannon, Cato Institute working paper, PDF]
- Memoir of jury foreman in criminal case [Tux Life]
- Not too sharp: Massachusetts school district disavows policy of not letting students bring pencils to school [Slashdot]
- State governors have big plans for liability reform. Maybe even loser-pays? [Carter at PoL, more; Florida, Indiana, Tennessee, Texas]
- Parent who sent buzzworthy demand letter to Kansas City school board is a jazz musician [Wayward Blog, earlier]
- From comic books to violent videogames: “Our puritanical progressives” [George Will]
Schools cancel shop classes to avoid liability risk
Thus bringing us closer to a society where few people grow up knowing how to operate tools and machinery. [John Ratzenberger, Washington Times] (& welcome Amy Alkon readers.)
Loco parentis: schools to send parents “your kid’s too fat” notes
Joining the obesity-as-public-health-issue crusade, Flagstaff, Arizona schools will begin weighing all students, after which they will send home warning notes to parents of kids who fail to conform to desired weight ranges. Apparently about half of students are expected to fall outside those ranges. [Arizona Daily Star, which likes the idea; Daily Caller]
High school sports booster clubs
A new Department of Education Title IX settlement casts a shadow on their fundraising efforts, reports the College Sports Council: “When they talk about ‘adverse’ effects, what they really mean is that boys sports have an easier time raising money from boosters than girls sports.”
November 15 roundup
- Simon Singh on need to reform UK libel law [BoingBoing]
- Complaint: Scalia’s too darned principled on religious liberty [rebutted by Ponnuru at NRO]
- Air Force sued after teenage rave in abandoned bunker turns bad [PoL]
- Scathing Kleinfeld dissent in Ninth Circuit Alien Tort case [Volokh, Fisher, Recorder]
- “Law Firm Accused of Requiring Heels, Then Discriminating When Injury Occurred” [ABA Journal]
- Parent’s angry letter to Kansas City school board complaining that teacher laid hands on son; best part are the demands [Something Awful forums]
- Australia: “Iconic Merry-Go-Round Is Deemed an Insurance Liability” [Free-Range Kids]
- “Meatpacker to pay $3m for using strength test” [five years ago on Overlawyered]
“Father Sues District Over Reading About Slavery”
School webcams: the division of the spoils
Pennsylvania: “The Lower Merion School District will pay $610,000 to settle lawsuits over its tracking of student laptop computers, ending an eight-month saga that thrust the elite district into a global spotlight and stirred questions about technology and privacy in schools.” Specifically, $175,000 will go to two students who sued, and $425,000 to their lawyer, while lawyers and computer specialists hired by the school in its defense have billed more than $1 million. “And the attorney for at least one other student has notified the district that he was contemplating a lawsuit.” [Philadelphia Inquirer, Balko, Kennerly]
Church of Body Modification
It’s figured in our columns before, and now it’s in the news again: “The American Civil Liberties Union has sued a school board in North Carolina over its suspension of a teenage student for having a peridot stud in a nose-piercing.” [ABA Journal]