high school

Seattle schools sue TikTok, Meta, Snapchat, and YouTube over students’ mental health and behavioral issues

Jan 10, 2023 by Dunja Djudjic 2 Comments

TikTok, Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, YouTube; and their parent companies are facing yet another lawsuit over mental health issues in children. This time, it comes from Seattle’s public school district, claiming that apps have had a major role in the “youth mental health crisis.”

The district accuses social media platforms of causing a variety of mental health and behavioral issues in children and being “exploitive and manipulative.” According to the lawsuit, all these platforms are deliberately manipulating and exploiting users, targeting particularly the youngest ones among them.

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High school accused of body-shaming girls after photoshopping their cleavages in yearbook photos

May 24, 2021 by Dunja Djudjic 11 Comments

Bartram Trail High School in St. Johns County, Florida recently came under fire for photoshopping girls’ bodies in yearbook photos. After their yearbook was published, 80 female students reported that their photos were altered to remove any hint of cleavage. The students and their parents got furious, and so did the public.

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Watch: This video is the sum of all high school photographers combined

Oct 27, 2020 by Dunja Djudjic 2 Comments

You know those parodies that are funny, but at the same time painfully accurate? Well, Jacob a.k.a. MasterChiefin1 has one just like that. In this video, he pokes fun of “high school photographers” and their perception of photography at this age. I believe all of us know a photographer like this… Or we used to be one.

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US students are failing AP exams because the testing portal can’t handle iPhone’s HEIC photos

May 22, 2020 by Dunja Djudjic 5 Comments

The coronavirus pandemic has moved all teaching, learning, and test taking online. However, there have been some hiccups with the Advanced Placement (AP) exams for US high school students. Those with iPhones have been failing the test because the College Board’s portal doesn’t support HEIC image format.

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