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Friday, March 22, 2013 – Daily News Outstanding students 7A Metteer Elementary Spelling Champs Courtesy photo Metteer Elementary's Spelling Bee went many rounds before a winner emerged. Some of the final words were colony, perpetual, cinnamon. Fourth grader Saxon Rivinius was declared the winner in the final round after correctly spelling irrigate. Justin Hinkston, last year's winner, was first runner up and Tommy Belluomini-Monda was second runner up. Justin Hinkston will represent Metteer at the Record Searchlight National Spelling Bee on Saturday, March 8, 2013. As always Justin will be letter perfect! Pictured: Saxon Rivinius, Justin Hinkston and Tommy Belluomini-Monda. Courtesy photo The Red Bluff Elementary School District Governing Board named their outstanding students for the ACSA Outstanding Students of the Year at their March 12th meeting. Recognized from left to right were Shea Gleason, 6th grade, Bidwell School; Montana Warner, 6th grade, Metteer School; and Emma Heimbuck Allaire, 6th grade, Jackson Heights School. Not pictured but recognized was Austin Bronze, 8th grade, Vista Middle School. Pi Day – a delicious coincidence Courtesy photo Courtesy photo The Red Bluff Elementary School District Governing Board named their outstanding students for the 2nd Trimester at their March 12th meeting. Recognized from left to right were Justin Hinkston 5th grade, Metteer School; Ashmeet Kaur, 5th grade, Jackson Heights School; Justin Nicholls, 7th grade, Vista Middle School; and Abby Gantenbein, 5th grade, Bidwell School. Lincoln Street Independent School 6th, 7th and 8th grade students celebrated Pi Day, March 14 (3-14), during their weekly Math Club. They wrapped up an extensive geometry unit, which included a handson study of shapes, such as prisms, cones and cylinders, and how Pi, or 3.14 relates. The unit concluded with pies from the Countryside Cafe. Inside the First Amendment: Why fifth graders have rights too By Charles C. Haynes Director of the Religious Freedom Education Project at the Newseum When people ask if kids in public schools have First Amendment rights, I'm tempted to answer "only if you think they're human." After all, the U.S. Constitution recognizes that every person is born with certain inalienable rights not granted by the government, including freedom of expression guaranteed by the First Amendment. But to be polite, I answer by re-framing the question to ask "to what extent are students free to exercise their inherent rights in public schools." No right, of course, is absolute. That's why we have argued for more than The 200 years over when society's compelling interests requires limits on the exercise of our freedoms of religion, speech, press, assembly and petition. Now a three judge panel of the U.S. 3rd Circuit Court of Appeals has written another chapter in that debate by ruling in favor of a fifth grader who was barred by school officials from handing out invitations to a Christmas party at her church. Other students in the Pennsylvania school district were routinely allowed to pass out fliers and messages of various kinds – from birthday party invites to Valentine's cards. But in order to avoid allowing religious content to be distributed, school officials claimed that K.A. (as the student is described in court filings) was distributing material from an outside group – a practice school policy prohibited. A lower court disagreed and issued a preliminary injunction ordering the school to allow K.A. to hand out her invitations during non-instructional time. On March 12, the appeals court upheld that ruling, determining that K.A. and her family would likely prevail in the litigation. (K.A. v. 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