Threats Against Schools
In Flagstaff, Arizona, a 29-year-old man from New York was arrested for allegedly making a series of phone calls threatening to kill children at elementary schools.
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Pick Up YOur Kids ON Time . . . Or Else
In Salem, Oregon, Swegle Elementary School is having a problem with chronically late parents. So they recently issued an ultimatum, sending out a letter to parents saying their children would be turned over to authorities and kept overnight if not picked up on time after school. A spokesman for the school district, however, is back tracking, and says the letter was sent in error.
Continue reading →Mother Sues School Over Son’s Treatment
In Hendersonville, Tennessee, a mother launched a lawsuit against Sumner County Schools over an incident that saw her special-needs child arrested and placed in a juvenile detention cell. She claims that restraining him in a chair with belts and straps caused severe bruising. (Jan. 2015)
Continue reading →Mother Saves Kids from Runaway Bus
In Massachusetts, a fast-acting mother is being credited with saving a sidewalk full of children from a runaway bus. Lorie Aliano had just dropped off her son at elementary school for a class trip to the zoo. That was when she looked up and spotted an empty bus rolling down a driveway and heading towards the children. So she jumped into the bus, sat down in the driver’s seat, and stomped on the middle pedal . . . which she … Continue reading →
Girl Killed At Bus Stop
In Louisville, Kentucky, early on Wednesday morning a 5-year-old kindergarten student was struck and killed by a car while she waited for her school bus. A spokesman for the Louisville Metro Police Department said the girl was waiting for the bus with friends when she apparently darted out into the street. It was unclear what provoked her to do such a thing. Let this tragedy serve as a reminder to talk with your kids about street safety. May 7, 2015; … Continue reading →
A New Way To Protect Children Getting On & Off The School bus
In Raleigh, North Carolina, the Wake County Public School District is testing a new way for students to get on and off the school bus. A bar swings out in front of the bus to indicate that it is safe to cross the street, sorta like those gates we see at a checkpoint. The kids have to wait until the bus driver swings out the bar, signaling it is safe to cross the street. After following child safety issues for … Continue reading →
Parent Blasts School’s “Culture of Bullying”
A distrait parent in Edgar, Wisconsin, is demanding changes at Edgar High School where his son Jonathan was relentlessly bullied. Jonathan committed suicide on May 28th, yet another in the long line of bullyside victims. Father Steve Wesener says the school district failed to recognize the “culture of bullying” that existed. He is calling on other concerned parents to join him in instituting reform. For more information on school bullying and how to prevent it, visit this link.
Continue reading →Explosives In the School Bathroom
In Columbia, Tennessee, more than 900 hundred students had to be evacuated from Spring Hill High School after an explosive device was found inside the stall of an upstairs boys bathroom. Police arrested a male suspected of planting the device. (2/1/2015) What happened to the good-old days when teens just smoked there?
Continue reading →Teachers Having Children Arrested At School
Teachers are in a tough position. They are dealing with 2 dozen students, usually by themselves, and have to put up with all sorts of rowdy and disruptive behavior. And their options for doing so are limited. Talking doesn’t always work, and if they physically restrain a child, they could end up with a lawsuit – or worse. Yet the reliance on calling the police and having children arrested seems to be a rather poor solution for what in many … Continue reading →
Children Killed While Walking to School
Kids Hit by Car While Walking to Child Care In New York, New York, two children were tragically killed and a third was seriously injured while walking to their day care center. The accident happened in Manhattan when an unoccupied delivery van rolled backwards, jumped a curb and hit the kids. The driver of the van wasn’t charged. (USA Today, 1-23-2009, p. 3A)
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