Joanne Jacobs
Excellent lambs
Photo: Jonathan Borba/Pexels In the 1960s, campus protesters rejected adult authority, writes William Deresiewicz. Now the “young...
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Joanne Jacobs
Jan 16, 20221 min read
Did feds solicit ‘parents as terrorists’ letter?
A National School Boards Association (NSBA) letter suggesting protesting parents may be guilty of “domestic terrorism” launched an FBI...
Joanne Jacobs
Oct 11, 20181 min read
High school cancels ‘Mockingbird’ play
“Just hours before the curtain was to go up” last night, Shorewood High School (Wisconsin) “canceled its production of To Kill a...
Joanne Jacobs
Jun 28, 20181 min read
Teaching citizens: How are we doing?
High school students observe a moment of silence outside the North Carolina Capitol in Raleigh in memory of the victims of the Florida...
Joanne Jacobs
May 5, 20181 min read
What if kids walked out for better schools?
What if kids walked out demanding better schools? Erika Sanzi imagines demands for school quality and protests of...
Joanne Jacobs
Apr 19, 20183 min read
Broken PROMISE
Today, the anniversary of the Columbine massacre, students are being urged to walk out of school to protest school shootings, register...
Joanne Jacobs
Mar 16, 20181 min read
He sat in class — and got suspended
While other students walked out of school to protest gun violence, Jacob Shoemaker sat in class alone. The Hilliard Davidson High senior...
Joanne Jacobs
Mar 15, 20181 min read
Can school OK some protests, but not others?
If a school lets students walk out, without penalty, to protest gun violence, is it obliged to allow walkouts for other issues? What...
Joanne Jacobs
Feb 10, 20172 min read
College kids: Violence is ‘self-defense’
Violence by masked anarchists led Berkeley officials to cancel a speech by Milo Yiannopoulos, a right-wing commentator. (The publicity...
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