You're in high school and you bring along a gun to school. Fine. That's just plain commonsense. But in the first grade? Crazy! And that's just what happened at Cleveland Elementary School in the Excelsior District on Monday. According to the playground rumor mill, the kid was packing heat in his backpack. Turns out the gossip was true. School district spokeswoman Gentle Blythe clains that "the student said he thought it was a fake......

This Craigslist ad caught our eye. A Hollywood production crew is looking to throw down "free school tuition, nice housing, money for living expenses, and per diems" to one lucky mary jane fan out there willing to attend "the well-known Oaksterdam University in Oakland" to study cannabisology, or whatever, to learn the art of kind bud "growing, dispensing, and medical services." (Some of the class the school offers are "Politics/Legal Issues 101," "Cooking/Concentrates 101,"......

Is this for real, or one of those ridiculous made-uppy New-York-Times-imagined-it problems? Apparently, the times reported a month ago that in SF, there are some low-income students who would rather starve than accept government-subsidized food. And now, at last, the SF Schools Blog offers a loooooong rebuttal with loads of context. Here's the gist: yeah, it's a problem, it's a problem everywhere, but we already knew about it and we're trying solve it. (The......

The Palme d'Or-robbed gem The Silent Scream landed a confused and sick Milpitas' Russell Middle School teacher in the fiery hot waters of bureaucratic hell after he recently screened this anti-abortion film in his chemistry class. According to CBS 5: The film was shown on January 23, after students in all five of Randy Yang's chemistry classes finished taking a test. The first year teacher reportedly asked his students if they wanted to watch......