| Foley: I can't handle a sex talk with my little bro
You never want to think about your little brother's sex life. But one of the things that sucks about getting older is that your siblings get older, too. Except it seems like my siblings are maturing way faster than I did. My 13-year-old brother is always telling me about some of the junior high sexcapades that go on at his school. I didn't really believe him because eighth-graders tend to have wild imaginations. (And Mom, don't worry - it's not him, it's the other kids.) .
Deadline looms for high school open enrollment
Parents only have a few days left to submit applications if they want their high school students to attend a school other than their neighborhood campuses in the 2008-09 school year. The Antelope Valley Union High School District offers two options for nonstandard placements - Open Enrollment or School Choice. Parents can choose to apply for one or the other, but not both. Early this month, the high school mailed out information packets about the programs to the homes of current eighth-grade public school students and to the principals of charter and private junior high schools, district officials said. Open Enrollment is the district's standard system for allowing students to choose their own campus within the district. Since most of the district's schools are severely overcrowded, a limited number of Open Enrollment spaces will be available for 2008-09 school year, officials said.
PG South: Colin Dunlap's notebook
It won't have an impact on the WPIAL playoffs that begin next month, but there is a very intriguing game involving two PG South area boys' teams Sunday at the Palumbo Center when Chartiers Valley and Upper St. Clair get together at 3 p.m. to kickoff an attractive high school tripleheader, the Pittsburgh High School Basketball Classic. Both teams -- Upper St. Clair (17-3) in Class AAAA and Chartiers Valley (18-1) in Class AAA -- look to have the makings of squads that can make deep postseason runs. In addition, a subplot to the game could be which cousin gets the better of which on the perimeter, as Upper St. Clair junior guard Peter Serio will square off against Chartiers Valley sophomore T.J. McConnell. The two were formerly AAU teammates and it should be interesting to see what happens when one has the basketball and the other takes a defensive stance in front of him.
Plainview teen killed while speeding
A 16-year-old Plainview boy with a learner's permit died early yesterday when he lost control of his friend's car while trying to find out "how fast it would go," Nassau police said.
Brian Assa, a Plainview-Old Bethpage JFK High School junior, was pronounced dead at the scene shortly after the 1:50 a.m. crash in Woodbury, police said.
A passenger, David Darvas, 17, also of Plainview, was taken to Nassau University Medical Center in East Meadow and admitted in critical condition. A family member said Darvas was in surgery yesterday afternoon.
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A chance to take care of us (1/27)
Long years ago, when I was growing up, school choices in Columbus were few and well defined. If you were white you attended an elementary school, one of two junior highs, Joe Cook or Caldwell and Lee High. If you were black, you followed a similar but separate course and ended up at Hunt."Separate but equal" as the courts had said. No, not really; the kids at Hunt used worn-out books and hand-me-down sports equipment.In the early 70s with federally mandated integration, all that began to change. Books have been written trying to explain those times. It's safe to say that local officials were in every way ill-prepared for the turbulence that ensued.Like an iceberg coming apart in warm waters, the schools began to fragment. Private academies, both secular and parochial, sprang up around the state.Visionary or courageous leadership was in short supply.
Central Minnesota tops state's grad rate
Not long ago, Krissy-Ann Zwack doubted she would graduate from high school. She had fallen way behind in her course work after spending most of her junior year recovering from surgeries and allergic reactions. Today, a diploma is a reality for the Sauk Rapids-Rice senior, in part because of a program that helps students graduate who might not otherwise. "I was thinking I was going to be waiting on tables all my life. Now I want to own my own restaurant," said Zwack, as she worked on a paper for school. .
Elgin stars dance to raise more than $11,000 for PADS shelter
Kathy and Pat Hannell of Huntley have danced together since they were 16 years old. The couple first took the stage together as dance partners in a production of Pygmalion during their junior year at St. Edward Central Catholic High School in Elgin. Now 61, they lit up the stage Saturday, Jan. 19, swing dancing to the iconic World War II song, Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy, in Elgin Stars Dance for PADS, part of Public Action to Deliver Shelter of Elgin Inc.'s Winter Harvest for the Homeless fundraiser at The Stonegate Conference & Banquet Centre in Hoffman Estates. .
Facebook photos sting Minn. high school students
EDEN PRAIRIE, Minn. — For 16-year-old Nick Laurent, walking out of Eden Prairie High School yesterday to protest the school's punishment of students seen partying on Facebook pages was about asking administrators to be fair. More than a dozen students joined Laurent after learning of the walkout from fliers the junior handed out the day before. The students said school administrators overreacted to the perception that students in the photos were drinking. "It's the loudest thing we could do," said Laurent, who organized the walkout but said he wasn't one of the students in the photos. Laurent tried to make his point by passing out red plastic cups that were similar to those seen in some of the photos. He noted that it was impossible to see what was inside the cups, so administrators couldn't prove that students were drinking.
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