In Harrold, Texas, a small district near the Oklahoma border, teachers and staff may be taking their guns to school this year. The sheriff’s office is 30 minutes away.
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Fight videos — often showing a group of teens beating a victim — are being posted online at YouTube and MySpace. It’s a hideous fad. From the Christian Science Monitor:
The hundreds of thousands of fight videos online, running the gamut from fake fights to bullying to gang warfare, have parents, educators, and lawmakers around the [...]
Here’s Why Schools Make You Tuck In Your Shirt!, according to a YouTube video.
In the wake of the Virginia Tech shootings, committed by a student who fantasized about death in his short stories, university professors are reporting “dark writing,” reports the Wall Street Journal. But it’s very difficult to tell who’s really a threat.
. . . some experts worry that these measures pose legal or ethical risks. [...]
Philadelphia schools are dangerous, concludes the district’s safe-schools advocate.
In a blistering 72-page document obtained by The Inquirer, Jack Stollsteimer describes a district where students who assault teachers or come to school with guns are not removed from classrooms, a violation of federal and state law.
School crime, he says, has been historically underreported, victims do [...]
Shaving lines in eyebrows is the latest gang style, say principals in Portland, Oregon. Some are kicking out boys until they shave their brows off or color in the lines with eyebrow pencil.
Hispanic mothers are fighting gangs in Chicago. But some have sons who already are gangbangers.
Nashville gangs are moving to [...]
Oakland’s Piedmont Elementary is a small school with a big problem: Fifth-grade bullies beating up smaller kids.
Anthony Cataldo of Oakland first raised concerns about aggressive bullying at his son’s elementary school last year after Zachary lost four teeth on the playground — but he said he received only a verbal assurance that things would [...]
Steven Kazmierczak, who killed five students in a lecture hall at Northern Illinois University, wrote in his graduate-school application essays that he’d coped with his mental-health problems and wanted to help others. The Chicago Tribune has the essays:
“For as long as I can remember, I have always been an extremely sensitive individual, and feel as [...]
Billy Wolfe made the front page of the New York Times as “A boy the bullies love to beat up, repeatedly.” He also appeared on the Today Show. His parents are suing some of the boys who attacked him and threatening to sue the school district for failing to protect him. I wrote about it [...]
A Waycross, Georgia third grader suspended for not reporting a plot to attack the teacher appeared on Good Morning America. Tmanni Adams, who got a month’s suspension, says her classmates planned to “hurt” the teacher, not kill her. Well, that’s a relief.
Tmanni’s grandmother, who’s caring for her while her mother serves in Kuwait, says [...]
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