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A student at Park City High School in Park City, Utah, has admitted to releasing pepper spray inside a lecture hall last month in an attempt to prevent the school’s Turning Point USA student group from hosting an event. The student said that he released the dangerous chemicals because he did not feel that the TPUSA event would be a “safe thing” to have at the school.

A high school textbook has come under fire on social media this month after a user highlighted its bias against conservatives. The book argues that Americans are concerned about President Donald Trump’s “mental instability.”

The principal of Epping High School in Epping, New Hampshire, has apologized after telling one of his students to remove her “Make America Great Again” (MAGA) hat and cover up her Trump t-shirt. The student was wearing the MAGA apparel in support of the president for the school’s “American pride day.”

A New Jersey high school has come under fire for its decision to suspend two students over their decision to post photos from a gun range on their Snapchat account.

Stuyvesant High School, New York City’s most prestigious secondary school, only admitted seven black students for the upcoming fall term. Asian students make up 73 percent of the student body.

Protesters gathered in front of an Arizona high school on Monday to voice their concerns over school staff allegedly punishing students for wearing pro-Trump attire last week. The principal says students were not disciplined for their political views, but rather, the school took issue with their refusal to provide their names to staff after the students unveiled “political signage” that the principal says caused “concern for student safety.”

Republican members of the Arizona House of Representatives on Monday requested the state’s chief legal officer to investigate “possible free speech violations” at a high school in the city of Gilbert. 

Students at Perry High School in Gilbert, Arizona, say that they were asked to leave campus for wearing “Make America Great Again” clothing, and for displaying a pro-Trump flag on “USA Day,” part of the school’s “Spirit Week.”

A student at Edmond High School in Santa Fe, New Mexico, was caught on video confronting a student wearing a “Make America Great Again” hat and a “Trump 2020” banner as a cape. The student knocked the MAGA hat off of the other student’s head, before forcibly ripping the banner off and throwing it to the ground.

San Francisco has more intravenous drug users than high school students, according to a San Francisco news outlet. “Injection drug users” outweigh high schoolers by more than 50 percent according to the San Francisco Chronicle.

Over one hundred high schools across France have been blocked or otherwise disrupted, with a fire seriously damaging one school in Toulouse, as students protest education reforms.

HUD Secretary Dr. Ben Carson may have his name dropped from a Detriot high school in protest of the Trump administration’s policies. 

A former New Jersey school superintendent pleaded guilty on Wednesday to defecating under the bleachers surrounding a high school’s track.

A teacher at a Philadelphia public high school has been accused of campaigning against Republican candidates during school hours.

Authorities arrested an Alabama high school teacher Wednesday, accusing her of committing 12 sex crimes against three different students.

“I happen to know some United States senators,” Trump said. “One on the other side, who is pretty aggressive…”

The FBI will not be investigating Sen. Dianne Feinstein’s (D-CA) last second attempt to smear Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh.

A female student at a Sacramento area high school is facing battery charges for allegedly stealing a “Make America Great Again” hat from a classmate and then slapping her teacher for intervening. She claims she was making a political statement about a “racist and hateful symbol.”

California is considering whether high school students in the state should be required to take an ethnic studies course as a requirement for graduation.

A judge sentenced a former high school choir teacher in Minnesota to six months behind bars for having sex with an underage teenage student.

Administrators told Central Valley high school senior Toni Kress that she would not be allowed to wear her Army sash at graduation because it does not match school colors.

The weapons policy of Santa Fe High School in Texas makes clear that no firearms, imitation firearms, BB guns, or ammunition is allowed on campus.

A good guy with a gun intervened Wednesday morning and shot an alleged gunman at Illinois’s Dixon High School.

Branden River High School in Bradenton, Florida, could make bras officially mandatory for female students following a controversy surrounding one of their students who was forced to put Band-Aids over her nipples after showing up for class without a bra on under her shirt.

A journalist who posted a picture of a group of teenagers praying in a restaurant before prom is getting some heat from Facebook users who argued the kids were not necessarily “nice” just because they were praying in the picture.

Teacher and coach, 29-year-old Raquel Eleana Spencer, was behaving erratically at Northwest Whitfield High School where she was allegedly caught with heroin.

A Connecticut high school was put on lockdown when an enraged black school employee wielding a large kitchen knife began yelling that he wanted to “kill every white man” he could find.

Parkland shooting survivor and gun control activist David Hogg says his teachers are “very understanding” when he skips school for gun control rallies.

The number of teenagers having sex during their high school years has dropped over the last two years and been in decline for a decade, according to a report.

In the continuing crusade to remold the English language in the name of gender-inclusiveness, a high school in Massachusetts has decided to abolish the offensive term “freshmen” in favor of the politically correct “first year students.”

A principal at a New Jersey high school has scrapped a 50-year-old graduation tradition on the grounds that it is “offensive” to students “whose identity is more fluid.”

A New York City high school teacher allegedly became a 17-year-old student’s “sugar daddy,” giving her cash and a taxpayer-funded job in exchange for sex.

Edina High School in Edina, Minnesota, has come under fire this week over a new mandatory english course that aims to eradicate “white privilege.”

A southern California high school canceled their football game Friday night after a brawl broke out in the stands before the start of the game.

A school district in Louisiana has moved to head off students who think they are going to emulate the anti-American protests seen in the National Football League by warning students to stand for the anthem or face punishment.

A California high school has come under fire for a controversial history project that involved students reenacting conditions on a slave ship.