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Displaying all articles tagged:
Kids Today
kids today
July 27, 2012
Mindy Meyer, of Sparkly Website Fame, Really Gets the Basics of Politics
“All I need to do is just go to my district and get their votes.”
By
Joe Coscarelli
equal rites
July 26, 2012
Queens Kid Kills It at City Council With Gay-Marriage Speech
Encore!
By
Joe Coscarelli
fox news watch
July 24, 2012
Fox & Friends
Grills Little Girls About Who Built Their Lemonade Stand
“You didn’t build that” is so rude.
By
Joe Coscarelli
kids today
July 24, 2012
Long Island Teen Crashes Car Into Neighbor’s Home, Police Won’t Charge Him
Sounds like a charming lad.
By
Margaret Hartmann
kids today
July 18, 2012
Hipster PAC Downtown 4 Democracy Eats Well With Purpose
This is how Brooklyn does political fund-raising.
By
Joe Coscarelli
sexy time
July 17, 2012
NYC Summer Hookup Spots: The Gansevoort Pool or Outside of Ikea?
Both are apparently getting a lot of action.
By
Joe Coscarelli
summertime blues
July 11, 2012
New York Teenagers Have Plenty of Time to Make Trouble This Summer
Because they can’t find jobs.
By
Joe Coscarelli
school daze
July 10, 2012
Stuyvesant Students Say Everyone Cheats, They Just Got Caught
Seventy students shared answers on their cell phones.
By
Margaret Hartmann
school daze
July 9, 2012
Cuomo Signs Cyberbullying Law, Horrible New York Kids Put on Notice
Think twice before you send that nasty tweet.
By
Margaret Hartmann
summertime blues
July 9, 2012
McCarren Park Pool Suffered a ‘Diaper Accident’
It was only a matter of time.
By
Joe Coscarelli
kids today
July 3, 2012
Officer Punched in Face in Brawl at McCarren Park Pool
Forcing the park to close yet again.
By
Brett Smiley
kids today
June 30, 2012
McCarren Pool Closed Early Over Backflipping Teens
Just one day after it opened.
By
Andre Tartar
sad things with happy endings
June 20, 2012
Horrible, Rotten Kids Abuse Bus Monitor, Internet Buys Her a Vacation [Updated]
Some kind strangers are trying to help a sad woman upstate.
By
Joe Coscarelli
school daze
June 16, 2012
New York Kids to Maybe Face Consequences for Being Terrible to Each Other Online
If a teacher or someone finds out about it, that is.
By
Caroline Bankoff
equal rites
June 15, 2012
Queens Kid Blocked From Making Same-Sex-Marriage Speech [Updated]
The fifth-grader was told his subject was inappropriate.
By
Joe Coscarelli
kids today
June 13, 2012
Cell Phone Storage Truck for High Schoolers Exists, Gets Robbed [Updated]
There were tears.
By
Joe Coscarelli
bad education
June 13, 2012
Shocked Parents Find the Blue Man Group’s Educational Philosophy ‘Unstructured’
You don’t say?
By
Joe Coscarelli
kids today
June 6, 2012
Stuyvesant Students Really Know How to Sell ‘Slutty Wednesday’ Protest
They’re fighting against an unjust dress code.
By
Joe Coscarelli
mayor bloomberg
May 26, 2012
Mayor Bloomberg Doles Out Questionable Advice to Cornell Graduates
Or maybe he’s offering them a crash pad?
By
Caroline Bankoff
kids today
May 25, 2012
NYC Teens Really Into Weapons on Roofs Lately
Now it’s BB guns on the Lower East Side.
By
Joe Coscarelli
kids today
May 22, 2012
Fifteen-Year-Olds Responsible for Brooklyn Dart Attacks, Obviously
Damn kids.
By
Joe Coscarelli
education
Apr. 20, 2012
New York Reading Exam Gets Trippy With ‘The Pineapple and the Hare’
Are you smarter than an eighth grader?
By
Joe Coscarelli
happy things
Apr. 17, 2012
New York City Middle Schoolers Rule at Chess
They won the National High School Championship.
By
Joe Coscarelli
sad things
Apr. 17, 2012
New York Poverty Rate Keeps Climbing
Bad news.
By
Joe Coscarelli
education
Mar. 30, 2012
Bad Teacher, Part XLVIII
A 12-year-old Bronx boy says his teacher duct-taped him to a chair.
By
Joe Coscarelli
kids today
Mar. 22, 2012
Orthodox Jewish Teenagers Drinking Like Teenagers
They call it “shul-hopping.”
By
Joe Coscarelli
technology
Feb. 21, 2012
Your Facebook Profile Probably Gives Away Your Work Ethic
A new study found that job performance can be predicted via social networking.
By
Joe Coscarelli
eye of newt
Feb. 13, 2012
NYU Girls for Newt Gingrich
Perhaps the GOP candidate’s youth appeal has been underestimated.
By
Joe Coscarelli
technology
Feb. 10, 2012
Don’t Call It a Gchat
Google prefers the official terms.
By
Joe Coscarelli
education
Jan. 18, 2012
Brooklyn School Rewards Kids Who Don’t Pee, Poop
An elementary school teacher is under fire for her new prize system.
By
Joe Coscarelli
technology
Jan. 18, 2012
Teens Are Supposedly Showing Each Other Their Passwords, All Willy-Nilly
It’s like sex, but stupider.
By
Joe Coscarelli
kids today
Jan. 11, 2012
Striving Morgan Stanley Hopeful Scolded by Vacationing CEO
Lesson: Don’t e-mail important people on holidays.
By
Joe Coscarelli
higher learning
Jan. 6, 2012
NYU Student Flips Out Over Occupy Wall Street Assignment
Now these are some insane, department-wide e-mails.
By
Joe Coscarelli
kids today
Jan. 5, 2012
Local Politicians Not Cool With Teen PSA Against ‘Raw Dogging’
Adults hate to hear kids speak frankly about sex.
By
Joe Coscarelli
health
Dec. 15, 2011
Obesity Down Among NYC Kids
Michelle Obama will be happy to hear it.
By
Joe Coscarelli
drugs
Dec. 14, 2011
Kids Still Dig Marijuana
Maybe more than ever.
By
Joe Coscarelli
scandals
Dec. 9, 2011
Consensual Sex Story Is Tearing Yeshiva University Apart
An essay in the student newspaper about premarital relations has caused an “uproar.”
By
Joe Coscarelli
kids today
Dec. 8, 2011
Congressional Staffers Fired for Drinking and Tweeting
They bragged online about drinking in the office and hating their boss.
By
Joe Coscarelli
kids today
Dec. 1, 2011
Times
Writer Confused by the Mating Rituals of the Young and ‘Literary’
Meet the kids behind The New Inquiry.
By
Noreen Malone
old men with money
Nov. 7, 2011
Old People Keeping All the Wealth for Themselves
Figures.
By
Noreen Malone
technology
Aug. 3, 2011
Adults Are Teaching Kids How to Use Facebook During a Breakup
Kids learn Facebook dos and don’ts, but maybe adults should learn them, too.
By
Joe Coscarelli
bankers delight
June 8, 2011
UBS May Leave Stamford for Manhattan
It will make the 22-year-olds happy.
By
Noreen Malone
fight club
Mar. 1, 2011
Middle Schoolers Suspended for Bathroom Fight Club
The first rule of middle school fight club is, oh, whatever.
By
Julie Gerstein
horrible things
Apr. 22, 2010
Teen Offers Worst-Ever Rationalization for Killing Someone
“The thing that made me not feel so bad was she was old.”
By
Jessica Pressler