Joanne Jacobs
Gunmen steal students' sneakers in DC
Students were robbed of their shoes outside their Washington D.C. middle school Friday by three men who said they had a gun, reports Hill...
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Joanne Jacobs
Feb 22, 20233 min
Ukrainian refugee girl flees unsafe San Francisco school
Yana and her mother fled Ukraine and found a new home with an aunt in San Francisco -- until the 13-year-old girl started Marina Middle...
Joanne Jacobs
Feb 14, 20233 min
'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 10, 20231 min
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, 20232 min
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
Jan 30, 20232 min
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 21, 20232 min
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 11, 20232 min
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 5, 20232 min
'Restorative justice' for sexual assault cases?
Some California colleges are experimenting with "restorative justice circles" to deal with sexual assault charges, report Oden Taylor and...
Joanne Jacobs
Jan 5, 20232 min
Akron teachers threaten strike over school safety
"We as educators are being asked to accept more and more violent language, violent assaults, violent behaviors from our students and we...
Joanne Jacobs
Dec 17, 20223 min
'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
Nov 6, 20221 min
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
Aug 13, 20221 min
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
Jun 9, 20223 min
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 1, 20221 min
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
May 29, 20222 min
(Non-mass) murders are way up
The U.S. murder rate spiked in 2020 and 2021, reports German Lopez in the New York Times. Cleaning up vacant lots and creating gardens...
Joanne Jacobs
May 29, 20222 min
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 27, 20222 min
School shooters don’t just ‘snap’
School shooters don’t just “snap,” journalist Mark Follman, author of Trigger Points: Inside the Mission to Stop Mass Shootings in...
Joanne Jacobs
May 26, 20222 min
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 2, 20221 min
What to do with angry, unstable students
Photo: Pixabay In A day in the life of school social workers, Hechinger’s Peggy Barmore looks at how Schenectady (New York) schools...
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