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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 SpeechEncore!

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 HimSounds like a charming lad.

By Margaret Hartmann
kids today July 18, 2012

Hipster PAC Downtown 4 Democracy Eats Well With PurposeThis 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 CaughtSeventy 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 NoticeThink 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 PoolForcing the park to close yet again.

By Brett Smiley
kids today June 30, 2012

McCarren Pool Closed Early Over Backflipping TeensJust 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 OnlineIf 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’ ProtestThey’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 LatelyNow 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, ObviouslyDamn 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 ChessThey won the National High School Championship.

By Joe Coscarelli
sad things Apr. 17, 2012

New York Poverty Rate Keeps ClimbingBad news.

By Joe Coscarelli
education Mar. 30, 2012

Bad Teacher, Part XLVIIIA 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 TeenagersThey call it “shul-hopping.”

By Joe Coscarelli
technology Feb. 21, 2012

Your Facebook Profile Probably Gives Away Your Work EthicA 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 GingrichPerhaps the GOP candidate’s youth appeal has been underestimated.

By Joe Coscarelli
technology Feb. 10, 2012

Don’t Call It a GchatGoogle prefers the official terms.

By Joe Coscarelli
education Jan. 18, 2012

Brooklyn School Rewards Kids Who Don’t Pee, PoopAn 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-NillyIt’s like sex, but stupider.

By Joe Coscarelli
kids today Jan. 11, 2012

Striving Morgan Stanley Hopeful Scolded by Vacationing CEOLesson: 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 KidsMichelle Obama will be happy to hear it.

By Joe Coscarelli
drugs Dec. 14, 2011

Kids Still Dig MarijuanaMaybe more than ever.

By Joe Coscarelli
scandals Dec. 9, 2011

Consensual Sex Story Is Tearing Yeshiva University ApartAn 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 TweetingThey 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 ThemselvesFigures.

By Noreen Malone
technology Aug. 3, 2011

Adults Are Teaching Kids How to Use Facebook During a BreakupKids 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 ManhattanIt will make the 22-year-olds happy.

By Noreen Malone
fight club Mar. 1, 2011

Middle Schoolers Suspended for Bathroom Fight ClubThe 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