Don't let your daughters read Young Miss:
FAIRCHILD Publications pulped 200,000 copies of a special prom issue of YM magazine yesterday after a teen porn Web site address turned up in an ad for prom dresses. The X-rated address appeared by accident in a six-page ad for prom dress maker Studio 17 that ran in YM Your Prom, Mediaweek.com reports. Readers who tried to check out the Studio 17 Web site were instead directed to "The hottest teenage sex club on the 'Net," where the only prom dresses on display are around the girls' ankles.
Don't let your sons marry their sixth-grade teachers:
Mary Kay Letourneau and her former sixth-grade pupil, Vili Fualaau, with whom she had two children, have set the date for their wedding, according to an online bridal registry. Letourneau, 43, and Fualaau, 22, plan to wed April 16, the Seattle Post-Intelligencer reported Monday. Letourneau served 7 1/2 years on a 1997 conviction for raping Fualaau.
Don't let your little ones pick up bags of dirt:
It's a story you saw only on Heartland News. One that generated an incredible response from you. More than a 1,000 of you logged onto our web site to voice your opinion on the Sikeston first grade student disciplined for giving a bag of dirt and grass to a classmate.
Police and school leaders felt it looked like a bag of marijuana. The girl's mother tells Heartland News that her child did not realize the difference between a bag of weed and the illegal kind. But, passing even a fake drug is illegal and had the child been older, she could have been arrested.
Don't let your teenage daughters perform random acts of kindness for neighbors:
The Colorado woman who sued two girls after they made an anonymous, nighttime cookie delivery said she and her family have been the target of hate mail, harassing phone calls and even death threats. "This isn't about cookies," Renea Young told "Good Morning America." "It's not about a couple of girls out spreading cheer. It's about a horrible experience for me and my family."
It all started last summer when Taylor Ostergaard, now 18, and Lindsey Zellitti, now 19, decided to stay home from a dance in order to surprise their neighbors with an anonymous delivery of homemade cookies. But Young, 49 — appearing on "Good Morning America" with her husband, Herb — said she became so terrified when the girls banged on her door at 10:30 p.m. and ran away that she suffered an anxiety attack that sent her to the hospital the next day. Young sued the girls and was awarded about $900 to recoup her medical bills.
Don't send your kids to schools that think "theater instruction" is the way to address schoolroom violence (via Joanne Jacobs):
A desperate Bronx teacher fired off an anonymous letter to the City Council describing hellish conditions at a violent middle school...In her plea for help, the teacher recounted a recent day when she spent an entire 45-minute class trying to gain control of misbehaving kids.
She told the Council a berserk boy "the size of an overweight man" grabbed a large ruler off her desk and ran around the classroom refusing to give it back. He ended up hiding it in his pants "so I could not get it," she said. Another student took off his pants - he was wearing shorts underneath - and "proceeded to apply cream to his arms and legs for the entire period. He also managed to throw a soda bottle across the room three times, just missing me on one of those occasions," she wrote...
...Parents, teachers and students [have] repeatedly complained that city educrats do not know how to deal with out-of-control classrooms. Adding to that perception, school officials announced yesterday that they will combat bullying by creating five days of "interactive theater instruction" for 5,000 kids this month.
Don't assume, if your kid is renting a tux, that it must be for the prom (via Daryl Cobranchi):
Mock gay marriages of 18 students at Silverado High School on Friday drew dozens of angry community and parent protesters to a campus already plagued by controversy. The lunchtime "wedding" ceremonies of six female couples and three male couples in the school's outdoor central gathering area were part of a demonstration by members of the school's Gay-Straight Alliance in support of same-sex marriage and to mark National Freedom to Marry Day today. The day was declared by a gay and non-gay partnership advocating same-sex marriage.
You know, with the weather being so crappy and all, might be best not to let your kid out of the house - or out of your sight - for a while. Like maybe for the next 18 years.
Posted by kswygert at February 14, 2005 08:38 PM