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Parents across the country are being urged to let their children participate in the National School Walkout on March 14. Yet, few parents (and kids!) understand the walkout’s true mission. At my children’s elementary school in Northern Virginia, school officials are telling parents the walkout is meant to memorialize the 17 victims of the school shooting in Parkland, Florida. Yet, according to the National School Walkout website, the real mission of the walkout is to demand Congress pass more restrictive gun laws. The website specifically states: “Students and allies are organizing the national school walkout to demand Congress pass legislation...

Mass texting among “thousands” of Boston Public Schools students fueled a high-tech hooky Tuesday, as throngs of students skipped class for sunny Revere Beach. The coordinated flash truancy blindsided cops and school officials and led to widespread chaos and crime in the beach town, authorities said. The idea to skip school on the warmest day of the year went viral for the first time thanks to social networking Web sites, online instant messengers and text messages that can send mass instructions with a mere click. By noon, hordes of middle and high school students - who either slipped out of...

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EAGLE POINT — A surprised mother discovered earlier this month that her daughter had used a loophole in her high schools’ enrollment system and permanently checked herself out without parental permission. Kim Curry said her 15-year-old daughter, Shashana Avakian, hoodwinked school officials and Curry while she was truant for more than a month. "My first thought is the same as I know everyone else’s: ‘How could I not know?’ " said Curry, a working mother. "But our routine looked the same. She talked about homework. I had no idea until she finally confessed to me." Curry said Shashana recently moved...

RNC RESEARCH DEMOCRAT VOTE WATCH: March 7, 2003 Playing Hooky From Work DESPERATE TO BE FRONTRUNNER, GEPHARDT HASN’T VOTED IN THREE WEEKS!Meet The New Dick Gephardt, Same As The Old Dick Gephardt – By This Time In 1987 Gephardt Had Missed 63% Of House Votes "Edwards . . . pledged that he would not let his pursuit of the presidency undermine his work as a senator . . . . ‘I have to make sure that I can do my job,’ [Edwards] said." (John Wagner, "Edwards Says Run Could Help N.C.," The [Raleigh] News And Observer, 1/4/03) CLICK HERE TO...