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If the Valley High School baseball team in Sacramento, California is as clutch on the field as it is off of it, it may very well win a championship.

South African lesbian couple Kally and Samantha Mabe enrolled their young son in a private Christian school because they were expecting tolerance and open-mindedness. What they got was anything but.

Sure, kids can be a handful sometimes, but a second grade teacher in Colorado may have taken things too far when she allegedly taped the mouths of 28 students shut because they were being noisy.

A butter knife is causing some major controversy in Attleboro, Massachusetts. Yes, a butter knife.

UPDATE: 03/25/2013 11:44am The lockdown has ended.

They say you’ll have more earning power if you stay in school. Never has that theory been proven more than it was this week in Taylor, Michigan.

**NOTE** This story is being constantly updated.  (The last update was 19 March 2013.)  Please see below for the latest information. Herkimer, Mohawk, and Utica schools are on modified lockdown at this hour.

Australia has decided to blow out the candles on a birthday tradition.

Just because it's legal to do it on your own time in Colorado, doesn't mean you can drug your whole class. Two University of Colorado students in Boulder thought it would be funny to bring pot brownies to a morning class to share. Then a bunch of people who ate them had freak- outs. Suddenly it was not so fun.

Here in the United States, a kid might spot a turtle during their walk to school. And if he or she is the curious sort, they might pick it up and bring it in for show-and-tell. Things are little different in Russia, where apparently lions roam free. School children in a Southern Russian village ran into one of these beasts -- a cub -- and brought the furball in to their teacher.

Earlier this week, five states announced plans to add a minimum of 300 extra hours to molding young minds in the classroom next year in hopes of strengthening the American student performance.

Bullying does not have to result in suicide for it to have serious, long-term effects. A recent study published in the Journal of Adolescent Psychology discovered that nearly 33 percent of all bullying victims suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder.