I can honestly say that I would be furious if I were one of the parents whose special needs child was referred to as "mentally retarded" in the Mesquite High School yearbook. Furious. So I think the Texas school did the right thing by pulling all the yearbooks when the offending language was found (in a section meant to "honor" the special needs students, by the way), no matter how long the rest of the kids have to wait for an edited version to be printed.

I can also honestly say, as someone who worked on her high school newspaper and yearbook, I'm kind of amazed that more yearbooks don't get published with, and subsequently pulled for, offensive language.

Why? Because teenagers are in charge of putting yearbooks together! And teenagers don't know what they're doing half the time!

Here I always thought the proper reaction when an adult gives up some of their free time to escort a poor lonely kid to the prom is: awww! Silly me! The way an Oregon school district sees it, the best way to reward track coach Melissa Bowerman for her magnanimous gesture is tell her she has to resign from her job.

The kid's dad, Bob Thomas, had actually OK'd the "date" between his 17-year-old son and his coach. But the district is backing down. It's just another one for the "school district usurps a parents' right to decide what's right for their own kids" file.

Wait, some schools still allow teachers and students to be Facebook friends?!

That was my first thought after hearing this story about the outrageously homophobic Facebook comments made by a Kansas middle school teacher. Then I read the actual comments and thought, Whoa, this is one seriously messed-up individual. Some school is allowing him to teach children?!

Jack Conkling, a teacher at Prairie Middle School, was apparently none too pleased by Obama's move to support same-sex marriage. Okay, already I have a problem with this guy. But then he went on Facebook and things got much, much worse ... especially because many of his FB friends also happen to be his students.

Schools are giving out suspensions like they're pencils. Actually, scratch that -- considering the amount of pencils I end up buying from my kids, schools are actually more generous with suspensions than they are with pencils.

Just look at some of the most recent cases of kids being suspended: There was that honor student suspended for hugging his friend, the young cancer survivor suspended for growing her hair for charity, and, my personal favorite, the 6-year-old who got suspended for singing LMFAO's "I'm Sexy and I Know It." Oh, and don't forget about the high school seniors who got suspended for that no-damage Post-It note prank!

Honestly, I could go on for days. But I won't, because then I wouldn't be able to tell you about the latest ridiculous reason a kid got suspended: For shaving the image of a basketball player into his hair.

When you're 16 years old and paralyzed from the waist down, you have enough on your plate without having to pitch a court battle. But that's just what Mary Kate Callahan has to do. The Illinois teenager has managed to train her body to be a competitive swimmer, but the scores she puts up for her local high school aren't enough to convince the state she's good enough for them to count toward her team's cumulative scores.

Callahan is currently embroiled in a lawsuit against the Illinois High School Association because they won't let her swim with so-called "regular kids." Her scores are left off the list of her team's scores, and her name isn't being put forth to go toward the state swimming championships. What a lesson this is for kids, huh? A teenager refuses to let her disability hold her back from being competitive, only to be told that it doesn't matter what she's done ... she's not good enough because her legs don't work like everyone else's.

Good news for over 50 teens in Indiana: Suspensions are being lifted for those behind the Cascade High School senior prank involving 12,000 Post-It notes stuck on the walls and windows of the school (in a variety of colors and patterns, many of which were quite lovely, actually), as well as the dozens of other kids who staged a sit-in to protest the prankster's punishment in the school gymnasium.

Even better? The custodian accused of helping the kids stick it to da man apparently will NOT be fired after all.

This is like a fairy tale! The school administrators actually came to their senses! That almost never happens!!!

Perhaps the seniors' explanation for their "offense" put the matter into perspective ...

Fire up your DeLoreans. This bit of news will send you hurtling back in time. Two uptight moms were absolutely horrified to see high schoolers "dirty dancing" at their prom. So what's a concerned chaperon to do? They sprayed Lysol all over those grimy grinding girls and guys.

Way to go ... straight to jail? The mothers, who were also caught screaming "slut" and "whore" at the girls -- because dagnabit those harlots are leading those good boys down a path of no return -- are now facing all sorts of legal issues. Obviously their method of dealing with the "problem" was all kinds of crazy. But is dirty dancing really a problem anyway?

It's every parent's dream to have their child grow up and graduate from high school. But when do you give up on that dream? When do you say, "OK, that's what some kids do. Some kids, but maybe not my kid?" Sinclaire Coffer's parents aren't there yet. 

Their 17-year-old son has taken a math test -- required by the State of Georgia for a high school senior to graduate -- five times. And every single time, Coffer has failed. But because their son has autism, Coffer's parents think their son should get to graduate anyway.