
Slap-boxing, the fighting with open hands instead of fists, has hit a middle school in Austin. A 12-year-old boy at the Texas school did not want to participate in the violence but was told he would be beat-up if he did not. Parents are upset that a school official called it “horseplay.”
by Lana Shadwick17 Dec 2015, 9:29 AM PST0

Because of the implementation of Common Core Standards, the San Francisco Unified School District will delay offering Algebra 1 to middle school students, forcing them to wait until high school.
by William Bigelow24 Jul 2015, 5:26 AM PST0

Parents in a Monessen, Pennsylvania are irate at school officials after Fifty Shades of Grey-themed word search puzzles were given to their middle school children. In the latest round of controversy regarding the sexually explicit series, several teenaged students were
by Kipp Jones11 Feb 2015, 9:37 PM PST0

Four middle school students in Wisconsin have been arrested and are facing sexual assault charges after a report that they recorded their “sex party” on their phones.
by Dr. Susan Berry29 Jan 2015, 8:38 AM PST0

The star of last year’s “Camp Gyno,” the popular video about the first girl at camp to get her period and feel empowered by it, returns to the Internet now as a middle-schooler who makes some bad decisions and must deal with the consequences.
by Dr. Susan Berry30 Dec 2014, 9:27 PM PST0