Girl, 10, protests dress code:

Zoe Hinkle thinks her miniskirt is fashionable. Her school’s principal says otherwise.

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Hinkle claims Streams Principal Claire Miller told her last fall her skirt was too short, and now that warmer weather is returning, Hinkle’s friends are being told the same. The girls were told skirts must fall below the knees, Hinkle said.

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Zoe Hinkle said so far she’s convinced about nine of friends to join her outside the school tomorrow.

“My sign says, ‘Style is Freedom,’” she said, “because freedom of expression is in the Constitution.”

(Follow-up story)

She is a straight-A student? Did she sleep with her art teacher or what? I give her a D- for use of crappy visual aid. Does she expect me to be able to see that she has written Freedom of Expression on her sign? All I see is xrsin.

I enjoy seeing loli legs as much as the next guy, but do the girls have to dress up like whores? I blame Bratz. Cute little dress for the win.

Scolding over hug leaves hard feelings:

School officials are defending their decision to have a 5-year-old girl write a note of apology for hugging a classmate on a playground this week

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One girl picked another girl up and hugged her, which was considered roughhousing by a teacher’s aide, Masterson said.

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Brenda Brier, the mother of 5-year-old Savannah Marino, the girl who gave the hug, said officials at Greenwood Elementary School overreacted. Brier said she is upset that officials are trying to make the issue about safety.

”I want them to tell Savannah that it’s OK to hug. That’s all I want,” said Brier.

Love and peace!

I should be killed for finding this mildly amusing:

The body of a missing schoolgirl may have been turned into burgers and kebabs and served up at a seaside fast food outlet.

Police fear the remains of 14-year old Charlene Downes, who was reported missing in November 2003, may also have been ground up into tile grout.

Iyad Albattikhi, 28, who ran the Funny Boyz takeaway in Blackpool, Lancashire is charged with her murder.

Damn, I think I missed this limited hamburger and kebab.

He ran something called the Funny Boyz Takeaway? That is funny. Does it get more obvious than that? If that name doesn’t screams kidnapper, I don’t know what does. The British and their dry humor…

This is a joke, right? This is just wrong, even worse than the kind of wrong I like. Please tell me that this is a joke, it has to be. But then again, I thought these Maoam wrappers were a joke too…

New poll to the right. Yeah, I’m running out of ideas (as if I had any to begin with).

April Fools~. I don’t think anyone actually bought it, though.