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A second-grader at a Florida Christian academy was “administratively withdrawn” from the school after her parents questioned a homework assignment that requested “a picture of you doing reading homework in the bathtub.” The student’s mother, Misty Dunham, promptly sent a message to her daughter’s teacher at Victory Christian Academy in Jacksonville. “I emailed the teacher ‘Hey, you may want to explain that. Send something out to the parents. Let them know what the intentions are.’ This just does not sound OK,” Dunham told WJAX. “She did send out a message saying, ‘You should be in pajamas, be in your uniform,...

A father says he wasn't trying to shame his 14-year-old son when he made the boy wear a large sandwich-board sign saying, "I abused and sold drugs." "I'm not out here doing this to humiliate my son," the father told WATE-TV as the teenager walked up and down the sidewalk Wednesday in front of Cedar Bluff Middle School. "I'm doing this because I love him," he said. "We do have an extreme drug problem in America, and maybe it's time for extreme measures that parents need to take to monitor this problem that we have." The man wasn't identified by...

LYNWOOD, Wa. -- Two teenage boys were forced to stand on a road with signs apologizing to all mothers for staying out late, according to a Local 6 News report. See link for the whole story (video too!)

Son caught in middle as pair goes on trial in his 1979 abduction 06/17/2002 By RICK A. MAESE / Special Contributor to The Dallas Morning News ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - After looking over his shoulder for years, Barry Smiley tossed and turned for three sleepless nights, preparing to divulge the secret. Finally, in spring 2000 he had decided he was going to tell his red-haired, wide-eyed son, Matt Propp, his family background. Dismantling everything their son had taken for granted about his family, Mr. Smiley and his wife, Judi, told the boy that they had reared for 21 years that...