Tag: High School
Starting in September, New York City public high school kids will be instructed on how to properly put on a condom in health classes, the AP reports. Prior to the change in policy, students who wanted a demonstration rather than verbal instructions had to go to a “health resource room.” In a statement Monday, the […]
On the list of potential mentors at a school for science and mathematics, a psychic probably wouldn’t be anyone’s first guess, but one high school in the Bronx is employing a mentalist to help kids build self-esteem and think outside the box. The Bronx Center for Science and Mathematics has partnered up with mentalist and mind reader Gerard Senehi as […]
Tottenville High School in Staten Island started their school year by enforcing a new, strict dress code. The decision to implement what the school calls their “Dress For Success” policy was made “at the discretion of the principal,” AP reports. Tottenville’s district superintendent Aimee Horowitz said that revealing clothes are not allowed because they they “[interfere] […]
Poor Santiago Munoz. The 14-year-old from Queens is a student at the Bronx High School of Science. Munoz, who lives in Far Rockaway, wakes up at 5 a.m. each school day, taking two hours and twenty minutes to get to school and usually two hours and forty minutes to get back. The trek requires two […]
New York will be joining Texas, Hawaii, Washington and California when the Public School Athletic League establishes a wrestling league entirely for girls, beginning in March and ending with a tournament in May. The plan is to have 16 teams for around 300 girls, spanning from all five boroughs. There will be 12 weight classes. […]
