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Joanne Jacobs
Oct 12, 20241 min read
Transgender teens are unhappy -- or unhappy teens blame their gender
More than 3 percent of high school students identify as transgender, more than double the number a few years ago.
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Joanne Jacobs
Aug 12, 20242 min read
Bullying, violence are up: 1 in 10 teens are afraid to go to school, says CDC
Teens aren't quite as sad or suicidal as they were in 2021, reports the CDC, but violence, bullying and school avoidance are up.
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Joanne Jacobs
Jul 24, 20241 min read
Post-Covid kids are unfocused, poorly behaved and -- surprise! -- learning less
Student behavior hasn't recovered from the pandemic, says a federal survey of public schools.
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Joanne Jacobs
May 14, 20242 min read
Berkeley middle-schoolers march on Jewish preschool
My granddaughter will start day care in a few months at a Jewish community center. It was my daughter's first choice, but she also...
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Joanne Jacobs
May 1, 20242 min read
To stop bullying, bring back consequences -- and to hell with 'root causes'
AI-powered “nudification” apps are letting teenage boys turn real photos of their clothed classmates into "deepfake" porn to be shared...
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Joanne Jacobs
Apr 4, 20242 min read
Ban TikTok, say principals: 'Social media is merciless'
In an Education Week survey, 55 percent of principals said banning TikTok would "make their jobs easier," reports Olina Banerji. TikTok...
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Joanne Jacobs
Dec 7, 20232 min read
Portland will consider race, gender to 'support' disruptive students
Portland (OR) schools will design "support plans" for disruptive students that consider trauma, race, gender identity/presentation and...
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Joanne Jacobs
Sep 27, 20232 min read
Homeschoolers are more diverse, less conservative
Many families that tried homeschooling during the pandemic are still at it. As a result, post-pandemic homeschoolers are "more racially...
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Joanne Jacobs
Jul 23, 20232 min read
CA schools chief ejected from board meeting on parents' rights
Parents should be told if their child is involved in violence at school, expresses suicidal thoughts or identifies as transgender, a...
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Joanne Jacobs
Jun 6, 20232 min read
Why parents choose virtual schools
Virtual schooling has a bad reputation, writes Ian Kingsbury, a senior fellow at the Educational Freedom Institute, in City Journal....
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Joanne Jacobs
May 18, 20232 min read
School of bullies
Sometimes students misbehave -- not because their needs haven't been met or their teachers aren't sufficiently sensitive to their culture...
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Joanne Jacobs
Jun 4, 20223 min read
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...
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Joanne Jacobs
Oct 13, 20181 min read
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,...
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Joanne Jacobs
Jun 12, 20183 min read
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...
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Joanne Jacobs
Jun 11, 20182 min read
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....
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Joanne Jacobs
Jun 3, 20182 min read
Safety fears encourage homeschooling
School safety fears are pushing parents to consider homeschooling, writes Valerie Richardson in the Washington Times. After a gunman...
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Joanne Jacobs
May 28, 20182 min read
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...
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Joanne Jacobs
Mar 30, 20182 min read
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...
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Joanne Jacobs
Mar 13, 20181 min read
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...
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Joanne Jacobs
Mar 8, 20181 min read
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...
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