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The 1954 landmark Supreme Court ruling was hailed as a victory for desegregation. But protracted white resistance decimated the pipeline of black principals and teachers.

This is the shocking moment a huge brawl broke out between more than 30 students and a parent at an Arizona high school.

Dramatic footage shows students punching and kicking each other after the violence erupted on Tuesday.

According to police, the chaos ensued after a parent, formally identified as Willie Smith, 40, showed up at the campus of Tuscon High School to pick up his two sons.
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They were reportedly being sent home after a disturbance with another group of students on Monday.

An interim complaint document, obtained by KOLD, said the dad was advised by school staff to exit through the back exit to avoid any further confrontation with fellow students.

But the man allegedly refused and took his sons through the school’s courtyard during lunch break — telling staff that he would resort to violence amid reports that one of the children was being bullied.

According to the document, he said: “If it’s going down, it’s going down here.”
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Pick up a book for your child because it’s Children's Book Week! Learn all about the exciting activities you and your children can do this week.

Teacher Appreciation Week is celebrated in the first full week of May, from through May 8 in , and is when teachers get the extra credit they deserve. The big day is Teacher Appreciation Day on May 5, but teachers are just so great that they get a whole week to savor our appreciation.  Whether […]

Ahigh school teacher is being met with vitriol from some parents and students because of a note he allegedly wrote pertaining to gender identity.

Jeff Danielsen, superintendent of the Watertown School District in Watertown, South Dakota, confirmed to Newsweek that "a faculty member handed a letter to four students in our high school."
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"In this letter, the faculty member attempted to open a conversation about the students' gender identity," the district's statement reads. "The Watertown School District does not support this sort of action, and we respect the rights of our students to be who they are.

"We strongly condemn any discrimination based upon sexual orientation or sexual identity. We want to provide a safe learning environment for all students. We are currently investigating the situation to determine an appropriate outcome."
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Today serves as a reminder for students to get back on track and complete their dissertations.

A Jewish New York University student is slamming his law school classmates for repeated declarations of anti-Semitism and calls for violence against Israel.

Tal Fortgang, voicing his concerns Sunday on Bari Weiss' SubStack, accused his colleagues and multiple student groups of pushing a 'supremacy narrative' which has linked the creation of the Jewish state in Israel to white supremacy.
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'To the Students for Justice in Palestine, who explained: “Zionism is, by design, an ideology that promotes violence against, and hatred and delegitimization of Palestinians. Embedded in the Zionist supremacy narrative is the orientalist, Islamophobic idea that Azkenazi [sic] Jewish whiteness is fundamentally superior to Palestinian lives, culture, and identity”: thank you,' Fortgang wrote.


'To the dozen NYU student groups that signed on to their statement defending terrorist attacks on Israeli civilians because “People living under occupation have a right to resist their violent occupation,” and bemoaned the “Zionist grip on the media”: thank you.'

The author personally called out a classmate, Yosi Badie, for a tweet that he believed was vowing 'death to Israel'.

In May 2021 she wrote: '“my love language is marg bar israel”'. The tweet refers to the Persian phrase 'Marg bar Amrika', which translates as 'Death to America.'

Fortgang's blog post comes amid the ongoing conflict between Palestine and Israel. Last week at least 152 Palestinians were injured in clashes with Israeli riot police inside Jerusalem's Al-Aqsa mosque compound.

Analysts allege the confrontations at the Al-Aqsa compound pose the risk of a relapse into a broader conflagration like last year's Gaza war.
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Diego Salas Salas, an eighth-grader at Bennett Academy in Phoenix, AZ started a penny challenge at his school to raise money for The Salvation Army.

Westminster College in Salt Lake City, Utah, offers a class on pornography in which students watch raunchy films as a group.

Students at the private liberal arts college can take “FILM-300O: Porn” to earn two credits toward their film studies degree during the 2022-2023 school year, according to the film department’s website.
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“Hard core pornography is as American as apple pie and more popular than Sunday night football,” the course description reads. “Our approach to this billion-dollar industry is as both a cultural phenomenon that reflects and reinforces sexual inequalities (but holds the potential to challenge sexual and gender norms) and as an art form that requires serious contemplation.”

“We will watch pornographic films together and discuss the sexualization of race, class, and gender and as an experimental, radical art form,” the description adds.
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Up high! If any day is perfect for celebration, it's National High Five Day! Here's a look at how this now ubiquitous tradition got started. Hint: baseball.

Today, cannabis users across the globe will be lighting up to celebrate 420.

To celebrate multilingualism and cultural diversity, the UN Department of Public Information 2010 established the Chinese Language Day to be celebrated yearly on 20 April. On this occasion, we will shed light on basic and surprising facts about the Chinese Language.

It's National Cli-Fi Day.

Shawnee State University in Portsmouth, Ohio, will pay $400,000 in damages and attorney fees after punishing a professor who refused to refer to a male student as a female. The settlement comes after a judge previously ruled that the university's treatment of professor Nick Meriwether violated his First Amendment rights.

Moms for Liberty co-founder Tina Descovich said Tuesday on Fox News Channel's "Fox & Friends First" that parents applauded Florida's Department of Education for rejecting 54 math textbooks citing concerns surrounding "impermissible content," like Critical Race Theory.

A group of 10 convicts near Eloy is studying to earn certifications that will allow them to translate books for blind students.

A Shawnee State University professor who refused to use the preferred pronouns of a biologically male student won $400,000 from the university.

Philosophy professor Nicholas Meriwether settled with the university after filing a lawsuit in November 2018 alleging that the school violated his religious freedom and First Amendment rights, according to a press release from the professor’s legal representative, Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF). ADF filed a voluntary dismissal of the case on April 14 in light of the settlement agreement.
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Meriwether can choose when to use or avoid titles and pronouns when addressing students, per the university’s settlement.

Congratulations @ADFLegal!
Victory: Shawnee State agrees professors can’t be forced to speak contrary to their beliefs
ADF attorneys representing Dr. Nicholas Meriwether favorably settle First Amendment case with university t.co/eEhxFqnMOF

— Ryan T. Anderson (@RyanTAnd) April 14, 2022

Meriweather, who taught at the school since 1996, always referred to his students using “sir,” “ma’am,” “mister,” or “miss,” according to the Cincinnati Enquirer. A biological male student approached the professor after class in Jan. 2018 requesting that he use female pronouns and titles to address the male student.

The professor claims that the student threatened him and compared his refusal to use female pronouns to someone calling the professor a “c***.” (RELATED: All-Girls School Asks Students To Make Pronoun Buttons During ‘Cultural Festival’)

After the student filed a complaint with the university, Meriwether filed a lawsuit with the U.S. District Court against the school’s trustees and other school officials for allegedly attempting to force his speech.

ADF claims that Meriwether offered to use “any name the student requested instead of titles and pronouns.” However, the university rejected the compromise, “instead forcing the professor to speak contrary to his religious convictions and philosophical beliefs.”

ADF Senior Counsel Travis Barham said he believes this is a victory for free speech in America.

“Dr. Meriwether went out of his way to accommodate his students and treat them all with dignity and respect, yet his university punished him because he wouldn’t endorse an ideology that he believes is false,” Barham said. “We’re pleased to see the university recognize that the First Amendment guarantees Dr. Meriwether — and every other American — the right to speak and act in a manner consistent with one’s faith and convictions.”

A Shawnee State University spokeswoman directed the Daily Caller to its official statement, which claims that the university “adamantly den[ies] that anyone at Shawnee State deprived Dr. Meriwether of his free speech rights or his rights to freely exercise his religion.”
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The Florida education department has rejected 54 mathematics textbooks for its K-12 curriculum, citing reasons spanning the inclusion of critical race theory to Common Core learning concepts.

A student brought in Jose Cuervo's ready-to-drink margaritas and the children thought it was juice.