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'Challenging' students with disabilities are sent home (but not suspended)
Schools aren't supposed to suspend special-needs students if their misbehavior is related to their disability. But some schools use...
Joanne Jacobs
Feb 14, 20233 min read
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Teachers are quitting because of classroom chaos
Soft discipline policies make teachers' jobs much harder, writes Daniel Buck, who's taught in a variety of schools. A friend quit after...
Joanne Jacobs
Feb 10, 20231 min read
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Teachers are angry about shooting, but not shocked
"A 6-year-old Virginia boy who shot and wounded his first-grade teacher constantly cursed at staff and teachers, tried to whip students...
Joanne Jacobs
Feb 10, 20232 min read
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Unsafe at school
Angry teachers in Newport News, Virginia blame lax discipline for a 6-year-old shooting his first-grade teacher, write Ben Finley and...
Joanne Jacobs
Jan 30, 20232 min read
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Do 'red flag' laws prevent shootings?
“I just might come to yo school and kill everybody,” a 17-year-old former student wrote in an Instagram message. He specifically...
Joanne Jacobs
Jan 21, 20232 min read
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Generation Doom: Show students a path forward
Teachers should encourage young people to believe in the future, writes Alice Dominguez on EdSurge. The Doomer Generation needs a sense...
Joanne Jacobs
Jan 20, 20231 min read
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Tolerating misbehavior undercuts learning
A six-year-old boy shot and nearly killed his first-grade teacher at a Newport News, Virginia school last week. The teacher was...
Joanne Jacobs
Jan 11, 20232 min read
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'You could shoot your eye out'
I saw National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation for the first time on Christmas Eve -- I'm always just a bit behind the culture -- and...
Joanne Jacobs
Dec 26, 20222 min read
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'Are my kids going to be scared to come to school?'
Two teen-age boys were killed yesterday, and a boy and girl were wounded as they left their Chicago high school at the end of the day,...
Joanne Jacobs
Dec 17, 20223 min read
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Feds push 'threat assessment' to prevent school shootings
The young man who murdered 17 students and staffers at a Parkland, Florida high school he once attended, was sentenced to life in prison...
Joanne Jacobs
Nov 6, 20221 min read
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Woke charters stress 'anti-racism,' but parents want excellence
Urban parents' vision of a good school hasn't changed, writes Robert Pondiscio on Education Next. They want "safety, solid academics,...
Joanne Jacobs
Oct 14, 20222 min read
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Scared of school: 45% favor arming teachers
I try to imagine Miss Lawson, my kindergarten teacher, packing heat. Mrs. Roston? Miss Bletsch? Of course, in my day, schools didn't have...
Joanne Jacobs
Aug 13, 20221 min read
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Second wave of learning loss is coming in ’23-24
Students learned a lot less in remote classes, test scores show. “The achievement loss is far greater than most educators and parents...
Joanne Jacobs
Jun 13, 20221 min read
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States limit ‘active shooter’ drills
“Active shooter drills” terrify students, but do they make them any safer? Photo: Education Week When schools do fire drills, they don’t...
Joanne Jacobs
Jun 10, 20221 min read
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School police: Do they make students safer?
In response to the shooting of 19 children and two adults, Uvalde, Texas school officials want to hire more police officers, writs Robby...
Joanne Jacobs
Jun 9, 20223 min read
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CA school officials must report threats — or not
Photo: Pixabay California school officials would be required to report any “perceived threat” of a mass shooting to law enforcement under...
Joanne Jacobs
Jun 1, 20221 min read
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When does adulthood start?
Here's any idea that will infuriate everyone but might do some good: Let's make 21 the official age of adulthood in America. No buying...
Joanne Jacobs
Jun 1, 20222 min read
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School shootings are horrible — and very rare
Terrifying parents and children is not useful: School massacres are “exceptionally rare” events, writes John Tierney in City Journal....
Joanne Jacobs
May 29, 20222 min read
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The making of a mass murderer
The shooter in the Uvalde, Texas school massacre was “a lonely 18-year-old who was bullied over a childhood speech impediment, suffered...
Joanne Jacobs
May 26, 20222 min read
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She watched kids play — security was called
Lenore Skenazy was walking by an elementary school in Queens, when she saw kids playing hopscotch, just as she used to do, and paused to...
Joanne Jacobs
May 14, 20221 min read
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