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	<description>Teenagers live in a totalitarian state. Mandatory schooling. Curfews. Prohibition. Libertarian Rockstars are fighting back.</description>
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		<title>Obama to require &#8220;schooling&#8221; until 18 or graduation</title>
		<link>http://libertarianrock.com/2012/01/obama-requires-schooling-until-18-or-graduation/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Jan 2012 15:16:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In his state of the union address, Obama says he wants states to require people to remain in high school until they graduate or turn 18. &#8220;We also know that when students don’t walk away from their education, more of them walk the stage to get their diploma. When students are not allowed to drop [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Suspended for growing hair to help cancer patients</title>
		<link>http://libertarianrock.com/2012/01/suspended-for-growing-hair-to-help-cancer-patients/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Jan 2012 14:47:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rockstar</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A charter high school suspended a student for his long hair that he wants to donate to cancer victims.  J.T. Gaskins survived leukemia as a child. He refused to brush his hair differently to mask the length. He&#8217;s missed five days of classes and the school sends his work home.  Much of the focus has [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Left school at 15, dropped in-to life, now billionaire</title>
		<link>http://libertarianrock.com/2011/09/billionaire-had-left-school-at-15-dropped-in-to-life/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Sep 2011 23:29:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rockstar</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Government schooling is not the only road to success. Plenty of people go to non-government schools (aka private schools). Some home school themselves. A few &#8220;unschool&#8221; via DIY (do-it-yourself) project-based education. The lucky few? They drop in. They drop out of school, and drop in-to working life. Richard Elman, featured on the cover of Forbes [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Online learning to surpass your &#8220;grade&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://libertarianrock.com/2011/07/online-learning-to-surpass-your-grad/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Jul 2011 01:29:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rockstar</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Government schools differ from the real world in so many ways. There are no grades where you move with your age group to the next level &#8212; all 40 year olds are not in the 40th grade. There are not a fixed set of subjects determined by some central planner and whether local teachers know [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Drowsy at school? Ask for a later start time.</title>
		<link>http://libertarianrock.com/2010/08/drowsy-at-school-ask-for-a-later-start-time/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Aug 2010 08:53:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rockstar</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Some Â schools have moved their start times to later in the morning and students are now more alert and less prone to arguing. &#8220;In one of the most recent studies, published last month in the Archives of Pediatric &#38; Adolescent Medicine, Owens and colleagues found that, after a change in start time from 8 to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Kentucky seeks to raise exodus age from regimentation</title>
		<link>http://libertarianrock.com/2010/08/kentucky-seeks-to-raise-freedom-age-for-regimentation/</link>
		<comments>http://libertarianrock.com/2010/08/kentucky-seeks-to-raise-freedom-age-for-regimentation/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Aug 2010 14:00:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rockstar</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Members of the Kentucky mob (aka government) recently sought to increase the exodus age (aka dropout age) from the local regimentation centers (aka public schools). Local press promoted the bill as likely to pass but a procedural vote squashed it. The mobsters wanted to raise the exodus age from 16 to 18, over the course [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Prom cancelled to avoid lesbian couple</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Aug 2010 22:31:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rockstar</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A local regimentation center (aka, &#8220;public school&#8221;) cancelled a prom to avoid letting a lesbian couple attend, with one female hoping to wear a tux. The ACLU threatened to sue the regimentation center. Two female students asked to attend after reading a memo that required one&#8217;s date to be of the opposite sex. In every [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Parents sue school for viewing son with webcam</title>
		<link>http://libertarianrock.com/2010/02/school-spies-on-students-with-laptop-cams/</link>
		<comments>http://libertarianrock.com/2010/02/school-spies-on-students-with-laptop-cams/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Feb 2010 21:48:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rockstar</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A government school in Pennsylvania used cameras and microphones on laptops issued to students to locate missing laptops and, oh by the way, to also monitor students. Yes, the &#8220;telescreen&#8221; devices from the book 1984 have arrived in 2010. Parents of a monitored student have sued the school after receiving a photo of their son [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Suspended for Facebook page, student can sue</title>
		<link>http://libertarianrock.com/2010/02/student-suspended-for-facebook-comments-can-sue/</link>
		<comments>http://libertarianrock.com/2010/02/student-suspended-for-facebook-comments-can-sue/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Feb 2010 11:20:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rockstar</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A federal judge ruled a former high school student suspended for creating a Facebook page that criticized her English teacher can sue the high school principal who suspended her. The page entitled &#8220;Ms. Sarah Phelps is the worst teacher I&#8217;ve ever had&#8221; attracted current and former students, some of whom criticized the teacher and others [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Freedom at lunchtime! Students do what they want.</title>
		<link>http://libertarianrock.com/2009/12/freedom-at-lunchtime-students-can-do-what-they-want/</link>
		<comments>http://libertarianrock.com/2009/12/freedom-at-lunchtime-students-can-do-what-they-want/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Dec 2009 22:10:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rockstar</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[At a Maryland government school, lunch time now provides a healthy break during the day. Administrators turned lunchtime into free time. All students have the same lunch hour, and students can do just about anything they please during the hour. Some just eat and relax, while others also play sports, hold student group meetings, and [...]]]></description>
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