A few months ago, a survey came out saying Boston-area teens thought Rihanna was responsible for the Chris Brown domestic violence case. So, as part of a contest, they got high schoolers to make these PSAs to emphasize no, she didn’t do it.
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I feel almost pulled there to see how everyone is doing and where everyone is. A lot of people have made their peace with it, but it doesn’t mean they’re forgetting it.
Kristi Mohrbacher • A 26-year-old former student at Columbine High School, on the legacy the shooting has left the community around the Denver-area school. Among other things, the shootings by Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold killed 12, wounded 23, led to a rash of copycat crimes and inspired a soon-to-be-released film. For many Gen-Yers, this moment will make you feel old, by the way – it’s been a decade since the moment that defined your high school lives. • source
It’s an original play about music and the Holocaust written by insanely talented drama students with musical accompaniment by me. My high school theater director, Steven Bogart, is one of my biggest artistic mentors and I’ve been trying to get back there since I left.
Amanda Palmer • The piano-smashing half of Brechtian punk cabaret popsters The Dresden Dolls, on her latest project – going back to her alma mater, Lexington High School in Massacheusetts, to compose the music for a play based on one of our favorite albums, Neutral Milk Hotel’s “In the Aeroplane Over the Sea.” If you’ve never heard it, you should – it’s an amazing, colorful and bizarre artistic interpretation of the life and death of Anne Frank, and a bold choice for a high school play. • source
We went to a lunch meeting for drama class and our teacher told us the show was canceled. He said it was because Ms. Asrani did not want homosexual characters portrayed on stage — but that’s kind of the point of ‘Rent.’
Ryan Willison • senior at Corona del Mar High School in Newport Beach, California, regarding principal Fal Asrani’s cancellation of a performance of “Rent.” It’s led to an uproar among the student body and alumni. • source
It started with Facebook High school student Anthony Stancl of New Berlin, Wisc. (outside of Milwaukee) was arrested recently for a disturbing scheme where he pretended to be a girl on Facebook. Know how they tell you to watch out for sexual predators on MySpace and Facebook? Well, it’s kinda like that, but worse. “She” would allegedly talk to the boys in his class and convince them to send the “girl” naked photos of themselves …
It ended with blackmail … which “she” would then use to blackmail the students in question into giving him (not “her”) sexual favors. “She” would threaten to distribute the photos to friends or put them online. He apparently did this a number of times between February 2007 and November of last year, and faces up to 300 years in prison. And now we need to take a shower, because we feel very dirty for writing about this. source