Posts Tagged ‘teens’
Don’t Tell Mom Billy’s Peeing In the Cup
Something I missed while I was on vacation—D.C. will offer STD tests to every high school student in the District this year:
the tests are administered by taking groups of 15 to 20 students at a time to the restroom area. The students are given paper bags containing urine collection cups and enter bathroom stalls. Once they get in the stalls, they can choose whether or not to provide urine samples. All the students return the paper bags, so other students do not necessarily know who did or did not provide a sample. Students provide a password and then call in a week later to get their result and treatment, if necessary.
That’s the good news. The bad news is that last year, a pilot program found that 13 percent of D.C. public school students tested positive for STDs (”mostly gonorrhea or chlamydia”).
Fox Deciphers Secret Teen Sexting Code. “Banana” Means “Penis”!
“Banana,” slang for “Penis”? What uncrackable code will the kids think up next?
Via Pukeimmediately: MyFoxAtlanta has published a valuable cheat-sheat for parents wondering what all the acronyms in their child’s texts really mean. Is your tween a Fond of Leather (”FOL”) Marijuana-smoking (”420″) Nude Club-attending (”1174″) Penis (”Banana”))? Are you reading your kid’s texts right over her shoulder (”POS”) as we speak?
Just don’t let your kids know you know, or they’ll change the code! What crazy new abbreviation for “I Am Easy, Are You?” (”IMEZRU”) will they think up next?
The full list of “Text Acronyms Parents Should Know” is after the jump (number 15 mysteriously not present—possibly just too real).
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Fairfax Teen Suspended For Popping Birth Control Pill
Last month, Fairfax’s Oakton High School suspended—and has threatened to expel—a teenage girl who was caught swallowing a prescription birth control pill at lunch. According to the Washington Post:
When a Fairfax County mother got an urgent call from school last month reporting that her teenage daughter was caught popping a pill at lunchtime, she did not panic. “It was probably her birth-control pill,” she thought. She was right.
Her heart dropped that afternoon in the assistant principal’s office at Oakton High School when she and her daughter heard the mandatory punishment: A two-week suspension and recommendation for expulsion.
This story has less to do with reproductive rights than it does the thorough fucked-up-edness of the high school’s zero-tolerance drug policy.
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Sexist Beatdown: “Sexting” Edition
Oversize foam cell phone lures underage phone users into illicit world of fwded nudity
Parents! Do you know what felonies your tweens could be committing with their very own cellular telephones, and what stupid name the you will coin in order to facillitate freaking out to the newsmedia? Hint: the felony is “child pornography,” and the stupid name you have chosen is “sexting.”
Spotsylvania Teens Busted In Sexting Case
Spotsylvania, Virg. got the honor yesterday of arresting two teens in our first local “sexting” case. Eighteen-year-old Spotsylvania High student Moizeis Ribeiro and a 15-year-old classmate were arrested “on possession of child pornography and electronic solicitation.”
Ribeiro’s partner-in-crime is young enough not to have his name released to the papers, but he’s still old enough to be charged with child porn.
