HOW DO YOU SPELL “RAH, RAH, RAH”?“It’s overzealous that [students] have to carry very high scores through every class,” complained a parent of a student athlete at Eastern York (Penn.) High School. Parents are lobbying the school to relax its requirement that student athletes must maintain a minimum grade in each class to be eligible to participate in athletics. York’s standard requires a 70 percent or “C” grade to participate in athletics. Parents want that dropped to the minimum state requirement, which is 60 percent, or a “D” grade. (York Daily Record) … So it’s official: The parents get an “F”.CHARACTER ASSASSINATIONA man in Houston, Texas, has been arrested on felony charges of practicing law without a license. The Harris County District Attorney’s office said there’s no record that the 43-year-old man has been admitted to the Texas Bar, but has allegedly been working as an attorney. He faces two to 10 years in prison. His name: Perry Mason. The character “Perry Mason” was the protagonist of a series of novels published from 1933 to 1973, which were adapted to movies (1934-1993), a radio series (1943-1955) and a popular TV series (1957-1966) and typically presented Mason as a scrupulously honest and ethical lawyer. (Houston Chronicle) … Yeah, well, it was fiction.
