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 [...]

"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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]