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A Houston area sophomore has been sent to an alternative school following accusations of being high on drugs at school. This is despite the fact that all of her drug screenings came back 100 percent clean.

Rather than referencing 'My Little Pony' or 'Twilight,' one Texas student decided to use his chance to speak at his high school graduation to come out as gay. *Then* Mitch Anderson started making references -- to Lady Gaga, Beyonce, Zachary Quinto's eyebrows, the chorus of a Nicki Minaj song, etc.

In a sure sign of progress, a high school has voted two gay teens as this year's "cutest couple." It represents the first time a same-sex couple has been allowed to run in the category at Carmel High School in Carmel, New York.

Homework was never easy for Chelesa Fearce -- mostly because she didn't have a home to do it in.

When we send our kids to school we expect them to learn and get a good education from our public schools. A lot of kids may think differently because they are kids, but to one student in a Duncanville High School (Dallas area school) classroom, he expects to get a good education too and apparently feels he's not getting it from one of his teachers.

High school is hard enough, but imagine if you had the added pressure of competing in an online "hotness" contest organized by the male student body. That's currently what's happening at Issaquah High School in Washington state.

Wheatmore High School in Trinity, North Carolina has found itself in one mother of a controversy.

Two Arizona teenagers faced a choice after getting into a fight at Westwood High in Mesa: They could either be suspended for nine days ... or hold hands in front of everybody. Obviously, they chose the latter, and now the school is catching flak for it.

Big Brother is watching the students of John Jay High School in San Antonio, Texas. They have all been given RFID badges so the administration will "always know where they are in the building."

A homecoming pep rally is ostensibly about firing the student body up for the big Friday night football game. While there are varied ways to whip teenagers into a frenzy, reenacting a notorious instance of domestic violence would be universally recognized as an odd choice.

This is it. It is the last week for high school football here in East Texas (excluding playoff games of course). It is also senior night for the home teams. It has been a great season for football in East Texas and if you are regretting not going to any game this season, this final game will be the best to go to...

With two games left to go in the season, high school football is at it's best. The weather is perfect, the fans are anxious, the teams are fighting to win; all of those things put together makes for one heck of a game. Before you get all ready for your Halloween parties and trick-or-treating, head over to one of the local high school football games to kick off your weekend...