Coming in at number ten in the most noteworthy education stories of this year is the Texas cheerleaders at Kountze High School and their deep love and devotion to Christianity. They wrote encouraging verses from the Bible on banners that football players run through right before their games until the Wisconsin-based Freedom From Religion Foundation persuaded the school district to keep God out of their football games. Out of protest, the 15 cheerleaders and their parents sued the school district and claimed that they were trying to take away their freedom of religion and speech. After the entire nation put their two cents in, Governor Rick Perry intervened and spoke out against the ban. A judge allowed the cheerleaders to use the "I love Jesus" banners for the rest of the season. Maybe it's just me, but that seems like far too much work to go through in order to make sure your team knows that they endurance of God is with them.
Number eight on the list is Harvard's cheating scandal. Despite rules stating that answers to take-home finals are not to be discussed with others, 125 students at Harvard University submitted answers on a take-home final that were either identical or too close for comfort. So much for Ivy League integrity, eh?
Number five is the 'ever-worsening student loan crisis.' Need I say more? I didn't think so.
Number three is a story that I love and feel very strongly about. Malala Yousafzai was 11 years old when she started blogging about the Taliban's ban on girls' education. On October 9, at the age of 14, she and two of her classmates were shot by Taliban assailants on they way home from school. The bullet grazed her brain and she's currently recovering at a hospital in Britain. The article, written by Kaylsa Webley, reads, "A month after Malala was shot, the Pakistani government announced that it will adopt new measure to get every child into school by the end of 2015."
I guess it's good to know that at the end of the day, my Latin final isn't the biggest educational drama of 2012.
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