It’s yellow and transports students to schools. A school bus? No - a school tricycle! Only in New Delhi - via Mandelrot

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Two Salina Central High School seniors designed T-shirts to raise money for breast cancer awareness, but an assistant principal banned one of the designs from school.

Haley Wenthe's mother died from breast cancer five years ago, and Jessica Sheahon's mom recently completed chemotherapy.

So they set out to raise $10,000 during October, which is Breast Cancer Awareness Month.But Assistant Principal Linn Exline told them that one of the designs crossed the line and she forbid the shirts from being sold or worn at school.

The shirts bear the phrase "Save 2nd Base" with a pair of baseballs over the wearers' breasts.

Officials said the shirts violate the district's dress code, which bans clothing with an "implied indecent meaning."

The girls explain that "2nd Base" refers to making out that involves touching girls' breasts. The idea isn't original -- it's the trademark of a Pennsylvania group named for a mother who died from breast cancer last year.

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At the Rotenberg Center, students as young as nine and ten receive shocks for misbehaving. Employeed wear remotes bearing a picture of each child around their waist so they don’t shock the wrong kid.

The cover story of last month’s Mother Jones magazine is a chilling account of a America’s most controversial "behavior modification" school:

In 1999, when Rob was 13, his parents sent him to the Judge Rotenberg Educational Center, located in Canton, Massachusetts, 20 miles outside Boston. The facility, which calls itself a "special needs school," takes in all kinds of troubled kids—severely autistic, mentally retarded, schizophrenic, bipolar, emotionally disturbed—and attempts to change their behavior with a complex system of rewards and punishments, including painful electric shocks to the torso and limbs. Of the 234 current residents, about half are wired to receive shocks, including some as young as nine or ten. […]

The Rotenberg Center is the only facility in the country that disciplines students by shocking them, a form of punishment not inflicted on serial killers or child molesters or any of the 2.2 million inmates now incarcerated in U.S. jails and prisons. Over its 36-year history, six children have died in its care, prompting numerous lawsuits and government investigations. Last year, New York state investigators filed a blistering report that made the place sound like a high school version of Abu Ghraib. Yet the program continues to thrive—in large part because no one except desperate parents, and a few state legislators, seems to care about what happens to the hundreds of kids who pass through its gates.

 

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