Where I live, there has been some minor controversies because of the fact that there is no legal way to actively ban muslim students from praying in school.
In my locale, a Catholic high school received some pushback and a news story about them "giving" Muslims a room for their prayers. In true media form, however, they neglected to report the room was intended for
anyone of
any faith to quietly/discreetly pray, mediate, reflect, etc. during the day in an attempt to accommodate the student body's diverse spiritual beliefs - Catholic or not.
There was a page made in my final years of high school online, that had pictures of every girl in the year with a little blurb about how shit of a person they were.
My senior year, someone posted signs in the hallways that looked like classified ads with tear-off strips on the bottom of the page. The "pitch" was that each strip would entitle the bearer to a BJ from one particular female. I knew her boy friend at the time and went to tell him about the signs, but he already know as I saw him trying to console his visibly distraught girl friend.
Another time, one or more students tried to publish an underground newspaper that would likely be considered racist and 64 other -ists in today's environment. One of its articles was a supposed course catalog for ghetto schools with courses such as "Advanced Auto Theft 3 & 4 (Basic Auto Theft not taught because students already have knowledge of the subect)." Once the regular school newspaper covered this and showed that all interviewed students weren't impressed with the underground paper's failed edgelord humor, the underground issues mysteriously and abruptly stopped. As far as I know, nobody ever found the responsible person(s).
In high school, the superintendent had to send out a memo that you couldn't make students pray or stand for the pledge. That last one was a big deal because when I was a freshman, the First Gulf War was going on (1991 for you youngins) and the Vietnam Vet baseball coach got fired for dragging a student to his feet who didn't stand (kid was a Jehovah's Witness, and they don't believe in swearing oaths). He was well liked so everyone took his side and we all thought the coach was a dick (he was very inappropriate with female students, so if it hadn't been the flag incident, it would have been that).
During the Gulf War, the high school basketball team wanted to do something to support the troops. The initial idea of black wrist bands to protest was eventually scrapped in favor of wearing yellow ones to support the troops and the wish they'd come home quickly and safely. Although I missed the fireworks, an African-American player clashed with another player and his redneck, super-patriotic father over this. Fortunately, cooler heads prevailed, and someone explained to the former that we could support the troops without supporting the war itself or making any unnecessary political statements.
In a way it's kind of sad that people would try to seek out a middle ground in the past whereas people today are so stuck with their polar-opposite ways now that compromise or meeting in the middle is considered the ultimate undesirable evil.
