Joanne Jacobs
Gender lessons: Boy parts, girl parts
gender identity, reports Laura Meckler in the Washington Post. “Seven states now require that curriculums include LGBTQ topics,” she...
Joanne Jacobs
- Oct 14, 2018
- 1 min
Instagram bullying: ‘Portal of pain’ for teens
Fifty-nine percent of teens say they’ve been bullied online, reports Pew. In a 2017 survey by Ditch the Label, an anti-bullying group,...
Joanne Jacobs
- Jun 12, 2018
- 3 min
Lax discipline, bullying, chaos and death
A “once safe and supportive” New York City school “fell into chaos as new administrators implemented a supposedly more positive approach...
Joanne Jacobs
- Jun 11, 2018
- 2 min
Why are kids killing themselves?
The number of teens “hospitalized for thinking about or attempting suicide doubled in less than a decade,” according to a recent study....
Joanne Jacobs
- Jun 3, 2018
- 2 min
Safety fears encourage homeschooling
School safety fears are pushing parents to consider homeschooling, writes Valerie Richardson in the Washington Times. After a gunman...
Joanne Jacobs
- May 28, 2018
- 2 min
An Evergreen Headline
Remember Evergreen State College in Washington and the “no whites allowed” fracas of last year? Has it perhaps harmed the school’s...
Joanne Jacobs
- Mar 30, 2018
- 2 min
Don’t ask kids to befriend violent classmates
Parkland shooting suspect Nikolas Cruz at Broward County jail. Photo: Miguel Guttierez/AFP/Getty Images It’s up to adults to protect kids...
Joanne Jacobs
- Mar 13, 2018
- 1 min
Florida creates voucher for bullying victims
Bullied students will be offered a voucher to cover transportation to a new public school or a $6,700 voucher toward tuition at a private...
Joanne Jacobs
- Mar 8, 2018
- 1 min
Parents seek right to know about bullying
Jacobe Taras went on a family vacation shortly before he killed himself. Photo: Richard Taras Schools should be required to tell parents...
Joanne Jacobs
- Jan 4, 2018
- 2 min
27% of kids are . . . what?
Twenty-seven percent of 12- to 17-year-olds in California identify as “nongender conforming,” according to a new UCLA survey. Take a...
Joanne Jacobs
- Dec 4, 2017
- 1 min
Mom won’t be charged for recording device
Criminal charges have been dropped against a mother who sent her child to school with a recording device to document bullying, reports...
Joanne Jacobs
- Oct 31, 2017
- 1 min
Study: Anti-bullying programs teach how to bully
Bullying prevention programs may backfire, warns a University of Texas Arlington study. School anti-bullying programs often teach kids...
Joanne Jacobs
- Oct 30, 2017
- 2 min
Bullying leads to murder, suicide try
At a Bronx school where a bullied student killed a classmate, a bullied sixth grader tried to hang himself with his sweater, reports...
Joanne Jacobs
- Sep 9, 2017
- 1 min
Undercover in high school
In A&E’s Undercover High, which debuts Oct. 10, seven young adults ranging in age from 21 to 26 pose as teen-agers to attend a Topeka...
Joanne Jacobs
- Sep 4, 2017
- 1 min
Don’t raise your kids to be snowflakes
Mamas, don’t raise your kids to be snowflakes, says social psychologist Jonathan Haidt in a Spiked interview. Over-protective parents are...
Joanne Jacobs
- Jul 28, 2017
- 1 min
District Admits Asst Principal Acted Illegally
The students were protesting on the public sidewalk in front of the school, not on school grounds and not during school. Agree with...
Joanne Jacobs
- May 10, 2017
- 2 min
Suspended for racist images, boys sue school
Four Bay Area 11th graders suspended for “liking” or commenting on a racist Instagram image have sued the school district and...
Joanne Jacobs
- Apr 23, 2017
- 1 min
Reasons to dislike 13 Reasons Why
In 13 Reasons Why, a Netflix series based on Jay Asher’s popular book,a 17-year-old girl sends tapes to all the people she blames for her...
Joanne Jacobs
- Feb 24, 2017
- 1 min
Dialogue tip: Call ’em a Nazi
The most effective way to discuss an issue is to call the other person a Nazi, according to a study reported in The Babylon Bee. (Not...