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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>Protests against radio tracking chips for students</title>
		<link>http://libertarianrock.com/2012/10/protests-against-radio-tracking-chips-for-students/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Oct 2012 20:20:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rockstar</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[People in San Antonio protested having tracking chips in student ID cards. Administrators sold it as a revenue generator since it WILL increase attendance in first-period classes and schools are paid by the day to teach only students present in the first period. The protests couldn’t stop the RFID chips but people continue to argue [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Scottish teenagers to vote in independence referendum</title>
		<link>http://libertarianrock.com/2012/10/scottish-teenagers-to-vote-in-independence-referendum/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Oct 2012 19:45:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rockstar</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Your Rights]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Scottish 16-year-olds and 17-year-olds can vote in the upcoming referendum on Scotland disbanding from the United Kingdom. The Scottish nationalist leader, Alex Salmond, secured this option, believing 16 and 17-year-olds favor independence. Reuters news reports England considered this a large concession. There were other compromises as well, such as England demanding a single yes/no vote [...]]]></description>
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		<title>UPDATED: Distracting, disruptive, non-traditional hair color leads to suspension threat</title>
		<link>http://libertarianrock.com/2012/08/distracting-disruptive-non-traditional-hair-color-leads-to-suspension-threat/</link>
		<comments>http://libertarianrock.com/2012/08/distracting-disruptive-non-traditional-hair-color-leads-to-suspension-threat/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Aug 2012 17:41:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rockstar</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Express Yourself!]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Dresden Middle School threatens 7th grader w/ suspension &#38; juvenile court due to &#8220;non-traditional&#8221; hair color which they consider &#8220;distracting &#38; disruptive&#8221;. Principal Pam Harris pulled Talise Bryant away from other students on Friday Aug. 16, 2012 to inform her that if her black &#38; pink hair was not in compliance w/ school policy on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Teenager wins right for solo round-the-world sail</title>
		<link>http://libertarianrock.com/2012/02/teenager-wins-right-for-solo-round-the-world-sail/</link>
		<comments>http://libertarianrock.com/2012/02/teenager-wins-right-for-solo-round-the-world-sail/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Feb 2012 14:38:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rockstar</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sometime you can&#8217;t even escape oppression by boat, as a teenager in the Netherlands learned when she decided she wanted to sail solo round-the-world. Laura Decker filed for permission to miss two years of &#8220;school.&#8221; The local courts responded by allowing the gestapo child protection services to supervise her, citing that she didn&#8217;t have a [...]]]></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>
		<dc:creator>Rockstar</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Government Schools]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://libertarianrock.com/?p=1065</guid>
		<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>Curfew proposal has opponents and alternatives</title>
		<link>http://libertarianrock.com/2011/11/curfew-proposal-has-opponents-and-alternatives/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Nov 2011 15:45:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rockstar</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Curfews]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A curfew proposal in Montgomery County, Maryland, has not been an easy sell. Opponents range from parent-teacher organizations to a town council and alternatives, such as anti-loitering laws, may win out. The law would prohibit &#8220;children&#8221; younger than 18 years old from outside areas past 11 p.m. from Sunday to Thursday and past midnight on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Teen&#8217;s anti-curfew Letter to the Editor appears prominently</title>
		<link>http://libertarianrock.com/2011/11/teens-anti-curfew-letter-to-the-editor-appears-prominently/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Nov 2011 15:28:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rockstar</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A teenager&#8217;s anti-curfew letter appeared prominently on the editorial page of a the main newspaper of a county considering a teen curfew. The letter&#8217;s title was &#8220;A teen&#8217;s view on the curfew&#8221; and the writer urged politicians to consider alternatives, such as more policing, instead of confining all teenagers to their homes. The letter added [...]]]></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>
		<comments>http://libertarianrock.com/2011/09/billionaire-had-left-school-at-15-dropped-in-to-life/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Sep 2011 23:29:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rockstar</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Government Schools]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://libertarianrock.com/?p=803</guid>
		<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>
		<comments>http://libertarianrock.com/2011/07/online-learning-to-surpass-your-grad/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Jul 2011 01:29:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rockstar</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Government Schools]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://libertarianrock.com/?p=943</guid>
		<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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