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• Author: Oliver, Charles
• Position: A teacher is being investigated in Oklahoma - Dress code in Winslow Township School, New Jersey - Cheerleaders in La Cueva High School, New Mexico are not allowed to wear their uniforms in campus

A school district in Okemah, Oklahoma, says it is investigating why a teacher told a 4-year-old student not to write with his left hand and then sent his mother, Alisha Sands, an article saying that in many cultures, left-handedness is considered "unlucky, inauspicious and frankly evil."

Officials at Winslow Township School 4 in New jersey suspended an 8-year-old girl for violating the dress code. The girl wore a kelly green shirt to school, and the rules allow only white, navy blue, or dork green shirts.

New Mexico's La Cueva High School has prohibited cheerleaders from wearing their uniforms on campus, saying the outfits are too revealing. The girls are still allowed to wear them at games.

The Secret Service disrupted a planned vigil by forcing hundreds of children with cancer and their parents out of Lafayette Square Park in Washington, D.C. The park was barricaded for hours, and families were not allowed to get back in to retrieve their belongings. Parents say agents told them they closed the square because President Obama had left the White House from a nearby exit.

When Emma Gonzalez, 9, reached for her inhaler during a coughing fit at Utah's Columbia Elementary School, her teacher sent her to the principal's office. Though Emma was coughing so hard she vomited, staff confiscated the inhaler because the school had not received official notification she had a prescription for it. They say that policy is for student safety.

A German court has ordered Berlin cat breeder Jacqueline Linke to have her male Sphynx cat neutered, ruling that...