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An Oklahoma boy has, once again, made academic history. The family of 13-year-old Elijah Muhammad Jr. says he is now the youngest Black student to graduate college with computer science and cybersecurity degrees, according to People. The achievement was recognized earlier this month, when he crossed the 2023 commencement stage and accepted his Oklahoma City Community College diploma—adding […]
A Michigan middle school student helped stop a school bus after the driver suffered from a medical emergency. ABC7 reports that a bus full of kids was being driven home from Carter Middle School when the driver become light-headed and unconscious. Video shows seventh grader, Dillon Reeves noticing that the bus driver was no longer […]
Several Colorado high school students were arrested for a rocking-throwing incident that turned deadly. According to authorities, three 18-year-olds—Nicholas “Mitch” Karol-Chik, Joseph Koenig, and Zachary Kwa—hurled a landscape rock at Alexa Bartell, 20, as she drove by, resulting in her death. The Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office shared a statement confirming Bartell “was killed when a rock was thrown through her windshield […]
Lil Durk is proving why he’s a so-called Voice of the Heroes, as the Chicago rapper has teamed up with Amazon Music to launch a college tuition program called Durk Banks Endowment Fund. The fund has awarded two students, who participated in Durk’s Neighborhood Heroes HBCU College & Career Readiness Cohort Program, scholarships to Howard University, while […]
The family of a 5-year-old Connecticut boy who died during recess is suing the school on the one-year anniversary of their son’s death. As reported by the Hartford Courant, the parents of Romeo Pierre-Louis, who fatally collapsed during morning recess at the Charter Oak International Academy in April 2022, have filed a lawsuit against the school […]
A high school student in Houston faces serious repercussions after he was captured on video punching his teacher during a heated argument. KHOU-TV reports the incident took place at Lamar High School in Houston, where a 15-year-old male student assaulted his teacher for taking away his cell phone. Footage of the incident has gone viral, showing the student towering […]
A psychology high school teacher in Florida was recently fired after delivering a lesson in which he made students write their own obituaries. As reported by Fox 35, Jeffrey Keane, a teacher at Dr. Phillips High School in Orlando, was fired over a lesson plan in which he asked students to write their own obituaries […]
Almost 30 girls were reportedly hospitalized after they played with Ouija boards at their school in Colombia. The New York Post writes that 28 children were taken to a local hospital, some having fainted and shown signs of “anxiety and other symptoms” while playing with one of the infamous spirit boards at the Galeras Educational Institution in the […]
A Florida high school student was arrested this week after he viciously attacked a female staffer who took his Nintendo Switch away. According to NBC News, the incident occurred Tuesday at Matanzas High School in Palm Coast, about 35 miles north of Daytona Beach. Authorities said the 17-year-old boy, who is 6-foot-6 and 270 pounds, attacked the teacher’s aide after she […]
Four New Jersey high school students have been charged in the vicious beatdown of a 14-year-old classmate who later committed suicide. The news arrives several days after Adriana Kuch, 14, was found dead in her Bayville home on Feb. 3, less than 48 hours after video of Kuch getting brutally attacked in the hallway of Central Regional […]
