Joanne Jacobs
Broward: ‘Promise’ didn’t enable shooter to buy guns
Broward County’s PROMISE program, which diverts misbehaving students from the criminal-justice system, didn’t enable a former student...
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Joanne Jacobs
- Jul 15, 2018
- 1 min
There is no profile of a school shooter
Don’t try to profile potential school shooters warns a new Secret Service report on school safety. It doesn’t work. “These acts of...
Joanne Jacobs
- Jul 1, 2018
- 3 min
A shiny new school fails
San Francisco spent $54 million to build and equip a new STEM-focused middle school to serve low-income black students — and lure...
Joanne Jacobs
- Jun 28, 2018
- 2 min
How restorative justice can work
Students talk at the peace table at a San Jose Montessori school Restorative justice can make schools safer, if it’s done well, writes...
Joanne Jacobs
- Jun 26, 2018
- 1 min
Pushed out for being ‘weird’
The teenage boy, who’s on the autism spectrum, wore a black trench coat every day as a comfort garment. He talked obsessively about video...
Joanne Jacobs
- Jun 14, 2018
- 2 min
We’re scaring the kids — not helping them
When a parent toured her 5-year-old daughter’s future kindergarten near Boston, she noticed a poem on the board set to the lyrics of ...
Joanne Jacobs
- Jun 5, 2018
- 1 min
Tackling ‘culture’ — but not tools — of violence
The Trump administration’s school safety commission will examine the “culture of violence,” but not the role of guns, Education Secretary...
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 14, 2018
- 1 min
Kicked out for a keychain
An Ed Navigator advisor helped the mother appeal, then persuaded the superintendent to reduce the student’s time in an alternative...
Joanne Jacobs
- May 11, 2018
- 1 min
The right to walk home from the bus stop
#childsafety #freerangeparenting
Joanne Jacobs
- Apr 23, 2018
- 1 min
Outing Club can’t go outside: It’s not safe
Penn State students have organized and led wilderness trips for 98 years. Penn State’s Outing Club can’t go outside any more, reports Don...
Joanne Jacobs
- Apr 19, 2018
- 3 min
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
- Apr 12, 2018
- 3 min
De Vos: Schools are less safe
Education Secretary Betsy DeVos is under pressure to rescind — or to preserve — what’s known as the “Obama-era guidance” on school...
Joanne Jacobs
- Apr 11, 2018
- 1 min
Teachers get (very small) baseball bats
“It is the last resort,” said Millcreek School District Superintendent William Hall, who called the 16-inch bats primarily “symbolic.”...
Joanne Jacobs
- Apr 1, 2018
- 1 min
Students — but not teachers — are safer
Students feel safer in school, according to a Indicators of School Crime and Safety 2017, an annual federal report that analyzed 2015-16...
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 29, 2018
- 2 min
Safety last?
When he brought a knife to San Diego’s Lincoln High School, the student’s special education team decided he wasn’t responsible because it...
Joanne Jacobs
- Mar 26, 2018
- 2 min
‘Fight for our lives’
If an armed intruder breaks into a classroom in rural Pennsylvania’s Blue Mountain district, he “will face classroom full of students...
Joanne Jacobs
- Mar 24, 2018
- 1 min
Teamwork, time and the universe
Via Viral Hog: Students in Chihuahua, Mexico demonstrate the traditional dance of the huahuas de puebla, which requires “confidence,...
Joanne Jacobs
- Mar 19, 2018
- 2 min
After jail, back to school
Broward County’s school system has built a prison-to-school pipeline, writes Paul Sperry of RealClearInvestigations. “Thousands of other...
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