\u201cIt\u2019s the hottest trend,\u201d said junior Caitlin McMahon.
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\u201cMy mom took mine away from me,\u201d said senior Abby Morgan.
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\u201cOh, I do it all the time,\u201d said junior Isabella Avramov. \u201cI do it on my shirts, on my shoes, on my binders, on my lunch trays\u2026\u201d
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Bedazzling is back under a new name, and some say it\u2019s more dangerous than ever.
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\u201cIt\u2019s called jeweling,\u201d Officer Pienkowski said in an interview. \u201cStudents have acquired these flat-backed crystals and have taken to completely covering their clothes in them. It\u2019s disgusting and quite d\u00e9mod\u00e9, but these kids are doing it to try and seem cool to their peers.\u201d
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Yampage journalists managed to interview one of the school\u2019s most notorious jewelers, Rainer Yaeger, as he finished jeweling the cuffs of his jeans. \u201cThey come in a bunch of different colors, but the most popular ones are cappucino, grape, and tobacco. Even those aren\u2019t as popular as the two that got banned, though.\u201d
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\u201cThe mint and mango colors proved to be extremely dangerous, so we had to ban them,\u201d explained school nurse Laura Williams. \u201cWe\u2019ve had students come in so jeweled that you can\u2019t even see their faces. It\u2019s unbelievably addicting, those colors. These jewel manufacturers pick them specifically to appeal to these kids.\u201d
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Even after banning the most popular colors, JD\u2019s jeweling problem continued to spiral out of control.
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\u201cThey can\u2019t focus in class,\u201d biology teacher Ms. LaTray told interviewers. \u201cThey\u2019re always jeweling in the middle of my lessons.\u201d
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\u201cJewels are expensive,\u201d commented frequent jeweler Mena Coles-Carruthers. \u201cSo we\u2019re starting to see the rise of a black market for cheaper jewels, and sometimes you can find the mango ones there, too.\u201d
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Previously, students who didn\u2019t want to be penalized for their jeweling in class began signing bathroom passes out to go jewel. However, JD has cracked down on this as well by locking all of the bathrooms.
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\u201cBoth the right to un-jeweled apparel and bathrooms are human rights,\u201d commented Principal Paul Gasparini. \u201cIf a few of our students don\u2019t want to have un-jeweled apparel, then we\u2019ll just get rid of bathrooms for the entire student population.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Posters with the extremely effective slogan \u201cDon\u2019t Jewel, Not Cool<\/em>\u201d have been hung up in all school bathrooms. Unfortunately, these words of wisdom have not been able to reach any jewelers due to their location.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Yampage journalists managed to interview one of the school\u2019s most notorious jewelers, Rainer Yaeger, as he finished jeweling the cuffs of his jeans. \u201cThey come in a bunch of different colors, but the most popular ones are cappucino, grape, and tobacco. Even those aren\u2019t as popular as the two that got banned, though.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":10838,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jdrampage.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10837"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jdrampage.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jdrampage.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jdrampage.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jdrampage.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10837"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jdrampage.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10837\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jdrampage.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jdrampage.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jdrampage.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jdrampage.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}