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(WIDK By Nick Miller)Torture or Therapy? 

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Doctors in Dedham, MA used a form of electro-shock “therapy ,” to help “treat,” disabled Andre McCollins, 18, inside his high school, shocking him over 31 times in the span of a few hours as punishment for laughing at his teachers.

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(WIDK By Olivia Roat) - A transgender beauty queen who was initially disqualified from a Canadian pageant has now been allowed to compete.

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Jenna Talackova was told she would not be allowed to compete in the Ms. Universe Canada pageant because she was not a “naturally born female,” but earlier this week, reps for Donald Trump, who owns the Ms.Universe pageants, said Trump would reverse the decision.

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(WIDK by Colleen Bjornholm) -  Woman has to make painful choice no woman should have to make.

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A law in Nebraska prohibiting women from having abortions after 20 weeks if the mother’s life is not at stake, prompted Danielle Deaver, 34, who gave birth at 22 weeks only to watch her baby die 15 minutes later last December, to write a letter to Arizona Governor Janice Brewer, whose state is about to pass a 20 week ban law.

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(WIDK by Meggan Gittens) - A class photo is causing an uproar at a Florida elementary school.

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The class photo, which has one African-American student’s face covered with a ‘brown smiley face’, has been described by one parent as ‘offensive’, ‘degrading’, and ‘humiliating’. 

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(WIDK By AnnaMarie Houlis) - When rape occurs on college campuses, it is not funny; when “seven frat dwarves” rape “the fairest of them all,” does it then become a laughing matter? 

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Chelsea Diana, a sophomore journalism student at Boston University, and editor of the school’s independent student newspaper resigned on Tuesday after an April Fools’ edition, “The Disney Free Press,” featured a story mocking rape.

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(WIDK By AnnaMarie Houlis)Racial discrimination is not as palpable as it once was, but it is still a nationally debated and perpetuating issue.

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Authorities have finally agreed to convene a grand jury to determine if the police who killed 68-year-old former Marine and correction officer, Kenneth Chamberlain Sr., have committed a crime.

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(WIDK By Mike McCurdy) - A teacher at a catholic school was fired after she became pregnant through artificial insemination.

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Christa Dias, 32, was fired from her position of technology coordinator at Holy Family and St. Lawrence Catholic schools because she became pregnant through artificial insemination, which the school believed did not agree with Catholic doctrine.

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(WIDK By Nick Pollack)One teacher has decided to stand up for herself and her privacy.

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Kimberly Hester, a teacher’s aide at Frank Squires Elementary School in Cassopolis, Michigan, was recently suspended after she refused to allow the school district to view her Facebook profile.

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(WIDK by Colleen Bjornholm)It just keeps getting easier and easier for stalkers these days.

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A mobile app called ‘Girls Around Me’ in conjunction with the ‘Foursquare’ GPS tracking app allowed men to pinpoint women’s locations and then see their full name and photos on Facebook as well as send them messages.

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(WIDK By Lukasz Bielawski) – This isn’t one of those regular Bart Simpson blackboard punishments.

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Irel Jones, 12, claims that his teacher at I.S. 399 in the Bronx, duct-taped him to a chair after he got up from his chair during an exam to complain about a classmate who was trying to get answers from him. Click to read more…

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(WIDK by Mike Finiello)  - A Texas mother is taking charge after what she feels is unfair judgement by her five year old’s elementary school.

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Lakay Roberts, a five year old girl, is banned from using her walker at school. The decision came down when the girl’s walker collapsed in the parking lot of Kings Manor Elementary School in Kingswood, Texas.

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(WIDK By Mike McCurdy)The City of New York recently banned certain topics on school tests to prevent controversy.

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In an attempt to be more politically correct, the New York City school system has placed a ban on 50 different topics featured in standardized tests ranging from dinosaurs, aliens and birthdays to celebrities, video games and even animals.

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(WIDK by Colleen Bjornholm) – Parents of tantruming children behave better.

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On February 20, James Heidebrecht caused a disturbance while going through airport security at Will Rogers World Airport in Oklahoma, and was then tased and dragged on the floor by his legs by police.

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(WIDK By Hannah Tool) - An elementary school had to formally apologize to its community after sending a racist Black History Month letter to parents.

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The Waxhaw, North Carolina school sent out what Luan Ingram, the communications officer at the school, called a well-intended but poorly worded notice requesting parents to encourage their children to wear “African American attire” to school. Click to read more…

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(WIDK By Andrew Kepshire) - A queer proposal gets student body president ousted.

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Reuben Lack, a senior at Alpharetta High School in Atlanta, GA has been removed as student body president after attempting to implement some homosexual friendly changes to his school’s prom.

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(WIDK By Andrew Kepshire) - Shaking hands is far enough in a New jersey school.

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At Matawan-Aberdeen Middle School in New Jersey, Principal Tyler Blackmore announced that hugging is no longer permitted at school.

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(WIDK By Hannah Tool) - A Tampay Bay teacher faces the chopping block after using unsavory methods to access students’ Facebook accounts.

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Angelica Cruikshank, has been suspended without pay after forcing a student to access her personal Facebook account on the teacher’s phone, and using negative comments students made about the 33-year-old Spanish teacher as leverage to bar them from an upcoming field trip.

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(WIDK By Bob Bachelder) - A transgender is fighting back against Miami University in Ohio.

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Kaeden Kass, a junior at the school, is a transgender who was born female but now is recognized as a male. He applied for residency in the all male dorm, but was denied by the school and assigned to live in a female dorm.

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