April Fools isn't just for the students at this school. Watch as an orchestra teacher and student play a prank on the rest of the class. Where were these kinds of teachers when we were in high school?

An underperforming school displayed "courage" by firing all 93 of its education professionals. Unemployed people, take note: There are 93 job openings in Central Falls, Rhode Island right now. [WaPo] [Pic: Zazzle]

And here I thought only NYU kids rented out booze boats for maritime/river-tour graduation parties. A bunch of Brooklyn's International HS immigrant-students celebrated their prom on one, tried getting drunk, and in one case, made out with their drunk chaperone/teacher.

The Inbetweeners, which wrapped up its second season in 2009 in England, premiered in America last night. And hopefully it will stick around, because it may be the best British import since The Office.

And just like that, a new internet thingy is born. They lip sync Hall & Oates' (Oates and Hall's?) masterpiece "You Make My Dreams" backwards. That dwarf from Twin Peaks would be so proud.

After a harrowing touch-and-go period of silence marked by much prayer and stress ball-handling amongst the populace, the Hot Sexxxy Lesbian Teacher story has risen again! The new angle has nothing to do with lesbian teachers. But still, they're back!

Among the first casualties of the Kinkaid School's Skip McGee-induced culture war were events surrounding a production of The Laramie Project. Now the play is finally up, albeit with fortified security and a new, perhaps more relevant context.

Earlier this week, we learned how Highest Paid Man on Wall Street Hugh "Skip" McGee III ignited a culture war over a prep school pep rally. Now, the aftermath: Kinkaid school email lists overfloweth and diversity is banned.

Stuyvesant High School junior Mohammed Hassan was arrested last week for setting fires at school. Sounds like the case is all wrapped up, eh? Wrong. Now there are more fires. And taunting notes! And hieroglyphics! A fiery criminal thrill ride!

All you do is take some element of popular culture, like a popular television show, and then ask, provocatively: Is society itself changing in response to this pop culture thing? Today: Glee makes chorus groups "cool" again.

Jamie Dimon, the CEO of JPMorgan, is a towering genius of finance, Obama hanger-on, savior of Wall Street, and irritable dick. He's also long liked to wear tight jeans, as his 1974 yearbook page makes clear.

Weep for literary culture. After Salman Rushdie's ex-girlfriend accused him of still pining for his ex-wife Padma Lakshmi in Page Six yesterday, Rushdie has responded in kind today. We are all trapped in the eighth grade, which never ends.

There was a moment on NYC Prep last night that was just so brutal, so true-to-life, that I feel I just have to get it out of my system and talk about it right now. Camille and her teeth.

You might have thought that Los Angeles is a progressive city, but think again. All it takes is one little wink-wink ass-fucking photo shoot with a movie star and high school students to get parents all upset.

Well, great TV spirits be thanked/damned, it finally arrived. NYC Prep! The show about Real Life rich kids who are real life Girls who sometimes Gossip. Even the two boys, Sebastian and PC, are Girls. Who Gossip. Let's talk.

Oprah Winfrey is speaking out to defend the Oprah Winfrey Leadership Academy for Girls, the boarding school she started in South Africa two years ago, which has turned into a weird underage sex cult.

Meanwhile, in Dallas, Texas, a high school principal is under fire for ordering students to fight each other in cage matches, at school.

How much grinding is too much grinding for a high school dance? Let Brandon and Logan, two strapping young lads featured on reality show The Principal's Office, show you.

After the young, bald, intense Neel Kashkari was named last week as the unfortunate bastard who will lead the government bailout of Wall Street, all the media was scrambling to find out anything about his background. Besides the fact that he's a Republican ski bum, they haven't really turned up a single iota of dirt on Neel. But we have, possibly! Fellow Americans: Was our new Head Of Money a Ferrari-posing, flag-waving, "egocentric jerk" in high school? A tipster writes:

Catcher in the Rye: Why is every teenager still reading it? So asks an English teacher in Good Magazine who claims its only merits are that it is short, full of cuss words and wholly lacking in references to other books high schoolers have not read. Well, yeah!. Plus there are other literary works that have more cuss words and "social currency" than Catcher in the Rye. Like the Gossip Girl books and Lindsay Lohan's MySpace blog! So why won't it go away?My initial reaction to this would be that we read Catcher In The Rye because everyone on some level at some point loves Catcher In The Rye and we are fast running out of things we can say that about.* I am not quite sure why, I thought to myself upon scanning this essay. But high school will always need Salinger. Maybe because he actually himself had an eating disorder? I wasn't quite sure. And then I read this!