Elementary Schools Weighing Students

In Georgia, a new state law is requiring schools to weigh students twice each year, track their body mass index, and post the information on their websites in an effort to try to get a control over childhood obesity. Some people feel that this is an invasion of the children’s privacy and could be traumatic for the kids.

California College Uses Roaches to Attract Students

The college UC Riverside in California is using a cockroach petting zoo display to try to attract students and parents to an upcoming recruitment fair. The display will have several species of cockroaches and will include the Madagascar hissing cockroach. The fair is mainly for high school students that are interested in careers as science teachers and engineers.

High School Students Try to Set New Twister Record

On Sunday in Fargo, ND 450 high school students played the game Twister on 180 mats to try to set the world record for the largest Twister game board. The mats were taped together and made a large Twister board that was 4,699 square feet long. The students won’t know if they set a record until the officials at the Guinness World Records reviews the video of the event and says so. The current Twister board record is a board that was made in the Netherlands in 2005 that was 2,453 square feet long.