All international travel has to be approved by the Metro Vancouver board, which budgets $130,000 a year for such trips.

The students' responses to the new clear backpacks demonstrate why parents need to talk to their kids about how to properly express themselves.

In addition to the backpacks, badges and metal detectors, Gov. Rick Scott recently ordered eight highway patrol troopers to begin assisting sheriff's deputies in patrolling the high school indefinitely.