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Destin Cramer, left, and Noah Rice place a new sticker on the door at the ceremonial opening of a gender neutral bathroom at Nathan Hale high school Tuesday, May 17, 2016, in Seattle. President Obama’s directive ordering schools to accommodate transgender students has been controversial in some places but since 2012 Seattle has mandated that transgender students be able to use of the bathrooms and locker rooms of their choice. Nearly half of the district’s 15 high schools already have gender neutral bathrooms and one high school has had a transgender bathroom for 20 years. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson)
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Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas gave the commencement address at Hillsdale College on Saturday. (Image courtesy of Hillsdale College)
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The football stadium at Westfield High School is shown Wednesday, May 11, 2016 in Westfield, Ind. The school, 25 miles north of Indianapolis, agreed in 2014 to a 10-year, $1.2 million naming rights deal with a health care provider, with the money used to help build a 5,000-seat high school football stadium that opened last year.(AP Photo/Michael Conroy)
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Francis Scott Key Middle School in Silver Spring
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Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick speaks during a news conference at the Texas Republican Convention Friday, May 13, 2016, in Dallas. Texas is signaling the state will challenge an Obama administrative directive over bathroom access for transgender students in public schools. (AP Photo/LM Otero)
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Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick speaks during a news conference at the Texas Republican Convention Friday, May 13, 2016, in Dallas. Texas is signaling the state it will challenge an Obama administrative directive over bathroom access for transgender students in public schools. (AP Photo/LM Otero)
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Hundreds of students at Portland State University staged a walkout and "die-in" this week to demand the disarming of campus police officers. (YouTube/@Vidmax)
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A sign marks the entrance to a gender-neutral restroom at the University of Vermont in Burlington, Vt. (Associated Press) **FILE**
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The University of California, Irvine, is encouraging students to attend "safe zone training" after posters advertising Breitbart News editor Milo Yiannopoulos' "Dangerous Faggot Tour" sparked concerns. (Facebook/ Social Justice Is Cancer by Milo Yiannopoulos)
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C12 Five-Point Alignment Matrix
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A Google representative shows SEED School of Washington students Rayal McKinley, 15, and Brianna Brown, 16, a virtual reality headset. About 50 local students investigate the presentation tables and displays set up by 22 tech companies, including Google, Facebook and Panasonic, at the Carnegie Library in Northwest. (Photographs by Faith E. Pinho/THE WASHINGTON TIMES)
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E. L. Haynes Public Charter School senior Kevin Rogers tries on clothes in the Swivel virtual dressing room.
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CEO of ITI Dean Garfield tells SEED School of Washington students that they will receive a gift of $3,000 to use toward STEM educational purposes. About 50 local students to investigate the presentation tables and displays set up by 22 tech companies, including Google, Facebook and Panasonic, arrayed in the Carnegie Library in Northwest. By Faith E. Pinho THE WASHINGTON TIMES
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Penn State President Eric Barron takes part in a university board of trustees meeting Friday, March 20, 2015, in Hershey, Pa. Barron expressed support for students who protested on Friday as officials are investigating a campus fraternity for possible involvement in online postings of photos of nude and partly nude women, some of them asleep or passed out. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)
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A massive fight at a Los Angeles high school involving dozens of students was caught on cellphone video on May 9.
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This photo provided by Washington University shows associate professor of neurology at Washington University School of Medicine Beau Ances MD, PhD, right, and Matthew Brier an MD/PhD student at the university, examining PET (positron emission tomography) scans of Alzheimer’s disease patients, in St. Louis. Scientists are peeking inside living brains to watch for the first time as a toxic duo of plaques and tangles interact to drive Alzheimer's disease, with implications for better treatments. (Robert Boston/Washington University via AP)
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The Islamic State terrorist group has reportedly launched an Android app that teaches child recruits the Arabic alphabet. (Vocativ)
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In this photo taken Tuesday, May 10, 2016, a young boy leaving a special recognition ceremony at the Fort Worth School board meeting looks at Karli Rampage, right, of Irving, Texas, who came in support of her transgender community at the Fort Worth ISD Board of Education complex, in Fort Worth, Texas. Fort Worth Superintendent Kent Scribner announced rules last month allowing transgender students access to single-stall restrooms. (Tom Fox/The Dallas Morning News via AP) **FILE**
