This article was amended on 16 August 2013 to correct the name of the fictional school in Whack-O!
"You can try messaging campaigns by putting up billboards; in my neighborhood back home it was 'Crack is whack, school is cool,' " Mr. Fryer said, referring to a public service slogan from the 1980s.
A lame-duck Mazany without a strong mayor at his back, may be way over his head as he tries to balance an out-of-whack school budget and go head-to-head with the new dynamic leadership at the Chicago Teachers Union on issues such as teacher firings, neighborhood school closings and more privately-run charter schools.
"School budgets are being whacked, but schools haven't bought new helmets because they haven't had to," said Bob Fawley, the owner of Capitol Varsity Sports, which reconditions helmets in Oxford, Ohio.
"Is high school football out of whack?" he asked.
Dedra Green, head counselor there, said the attendance was remarkable considering how "out of whack" the school day was on Monday, after a student was shot outside his middle school in nearby Prince George's County.
Public universities are supposed to offer a cheaper alternative to in-state students than public universities and, while they still do, sending a student to an in-state public school still offers a whack to the wallet.
SPRING 2003 Teachers from around New York complain that the state's scoring of newly developed high school tests is out of whack, with biology and earth science tests being too easy and the physics test too hard.
BANGKOK (AP) -- Secretly recorded cell phone footage has exposed a teacher at a Catholic boarding school in northeastern Thailand who whacked dozens of students on the buttocks with a cane wrapped with electrical wire.
Brendan O'Neill, author of a recent essay, "Weaponizing Mozart" in Reason Magazine, told the CBC that the school was "using great achievement to whack people across the head".
