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...
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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
- 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
- Feb 18, 2018
- 2 min
Can schools police social media? Should they?
A California girl was suspended from the basketball team for retweeting Snoop Dogg holding what appears to be a marijuana joint, reports...
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
- 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...
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