4 days ago by phillystyle71

by Christopher Paslay The Philadelphia School District can call off its elaborate search for the next superintendent. The best person for the job is sitting right under our nose, and his name is Phil Goldsmith. The Philadelphia School District has officially started its search for a new superintende ...

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5 days ago by tasinator

Q: Why do students just start shooting other students in the classrooms or school yards? Is there anything we can do to stop it? A: Those who would shoot or otherwise wreak havoc and death within those schools of students … Continue reading →

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7 days ago by The GroundHog

This is Zachary’s story. Read it. Watch the video and then take action. For Zachary, it started in the 3rd grade. First they said he looked and talked like a girl. Then they called him a “fag.” Finally, when he reached 8th grade, the bullying turned cruelly violent — and school administrators did no ...

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13 days ago by poisedpen

Tilda Swinton (Eva) and Jasper Newell (Kevin, as a child) in "We Need to Talk About Kevin" directed by Lynne Ramsey and distributed by BBC Films It’s hard to understand what might motivate someone to see a movie like “ We Need to Talk About Kevin” — which feels both grotesque and gratuitous as it ex ...

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15 days ago by Lora

Robert J. Lopez (Los Angeles Times) | January 26, 2012 Security was beefed up at Samuel Gompers Middle School in South Los Angeles on Thursday after two boys pulled out a knife and gun during an argument in a 7th-grade class. The boys began arguing Wednesday afternoon when one of them pulled out a k ...

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27 days ago by boethius

t Paradoxically, kids from less 'humane' cultures than ours often long for the relative safety of their homeland. They are more terrorized by the disorder in their inner-city American schools than they were by the threat of corporal punishment in schools back home. A teacher recently told me that he ...

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28 days ago by Bartleby

For all prospective parents and parents still raising children in their formative years, Lynne Ramsay’s We Need To Talk About Kevin might be the single most unsettling film you see this year. As a soon-to-be father, I do hope that when my son arrives he’s not anything like this film’s Kevin, a terro ...

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39 days ago

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40 days ago by Derek

From the Korea Herald: Police will mobilize some 12,000 detectives to combat school violence, a measure that comes after a suicide note left by a Daegu 14-year-old increased media attention toward bullying. The National Police Agency warned it would detain young suspects in serious criminal cases, s ...

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52 days ago by ceacapconn

We finally have some positive news about K-12 funding. Today the Governor’s Office presented quarterly revenue forecasts for the state budget. The December forecast is based on several positive factors that have emerged since the last forecast in September. Economic activity in Colorado during the f ...

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