school incidents

A school has been fined £35,000, after a group of schoolchildren had to be rescued by a mountain rescue team. One thirteen-year-old girl made her own way down the mountain in the dark. They had the wrong shoes and wrong clothing on. Daily Telegraph

District Calls Anniversary Photo of High School Principal and His Wife ‘Questionable' Oh oh, Karen's at it again! However, many people in his district support him, and he's refused to remove the picture.

Parents of four black students plan to sue a New York school district for $12 million after a teacher wrote 'monkey do' above an image of their children outside zoo's gorilla enclosure and showed it to a class...

This is a perfect example of how not to increase support for Gun Control. https://www.kansascity.com/news/local/crime/article235891762.html

Principal and teachers are suspended from California elementary school after leaked photo showed them posing and grinning with a noose https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7015489/Principal-teachers-suspended-California-elementary-school-photo-posing-NOOSE.html

Another totally not racist incident.... So a black female student is in a lecture and has her feet up on the empty seat in front of her. Does the Professor.... A) Ignore it. B) Ask the student to take her feet off the chair. C) Stop the lecture to demand that the student leave the lecture D)...

The report into the decades of abuse in a school has been released https://www.iicsa.org.uk/news/independent-inquiry-publishes-rochdale-report Makes it clear the various reports were absolutely correct, confirming decades long rumours. Many people knew of this abuse, I heard rumours of Smith’s...

That's not fair. Conspiracy theories are arrived at by taking the evidence available, deciding on a conclusion, and working backwards to a convoluted plan. Starting from motive and working forwards isn't allowed because then the conspiracy theory obviously doesn't make any sense. Dave...

Shooting at Florida school - reports - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-43066226 Hopefully initial reports are wrong and there won't be fatalities.

Seems to have been a murder suicide. Shooter killed a teacher & an 8yo student. Another student is wounded. https://www.google.com/amp/ktla.com/2017/04/10/8-year-old-boy-dead-after-elementary-school-shooting-in-san-bernardino-police/amp/

A less contentious controversy, but still an important issue, how do we encourage healthy eating, without alienating people... https://au.news.yahoo.com/sa/a/34344998/food-police-shame-pre-schooler-for-snacking-on-piece-of-chocolate-cake/#page1

https://au.news.yahoo.com/thewest/a/33261644/teacher-who-fell-pregnant-after-daily-sex-with-student-faces-30-years-jail/#page1

http://www.cnn.com/2016/09/28/us/south-carolina-elementary-school-shooting/index.html?adkey=bn It is "still breaking"

Only in Texas I guess...... :eye-poppi :rolleyes:

I though this is something to chew on http://www.wbap.com/2016/06/09/valedictorian-admits-to-being-illegal-immigrant/ MCKINNEY (WBAP/KLIF News) – The valedictorian at McKinney Boyd High School dropped a bombshell in front of thousands of people at a graduation ceremony this week. Larissa...

Student allowed to bring religious knife to class Interesting. A Pop Tart shaped like a gun will earn a suspension, but a blade is OK because religion.

Yet another example of zero tolerance idiocy directed at small children: Lesson for the day, kid: never bring yourself to the attention of the authorities as anything you say can and will be used against you...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-27556097 "A series of drive-by shootings in the Californian city of Santa Barbara has left seven people dead, US police say. The shootings took place near a student campus belonging to the University of California-Santa Barbara. The suspected gunman...

In the great spirit of the internet I choose to forgo waiting for more information, declare the police corrupt, the school evil, the students Hitler and myself an anointed arbiter of reason...

http://www.wtae.com/news/Franklin-Regional-stabbing-Parent-interview/25393100 So we will have to see if the athorities can find out what motivated this person to do this. I wonder if it had anything to do with all these tv shows showing stabbings?

CNN Headline News is reporting a school shooting in Atlanta GA. Seems an armed man walked into a school and made some demands. All of the students were taken out the back to a more secure location. Reports are that shots were fired, no word on who fired them. Ranb

http://www.dailyherald.com/article/20130525/news/705259921/ Article pretty much speaks for itself. I saw mention of other comments from board members on blog or commentary sites, but nothing from an independent news source with citations, so I'll leave it as is. If Wildcat is reading - I know...

ABC News story here. It's short and worth the read. Basically the school is threatening to suspend an almost deaf twelve year old girl if she doesn't stop using sign language on the bus. They say it's a safety risk. The girl's parents say that the safety risk is because other students pick...

A San Diego Catholic school teacher has lost her job and her children no longer allowed to attend the school after informing the schools principal of domestic abuse issues with her ex-husband and warning to be on the lookout for him. He showed up in the parking lot of the school the following...

http://abclocal.go.com/kabc/story?section=news/local/los_angeles&id=9130989

Link. We encourage experimentation, within tightly drawn boundaries. Cross those boundaries, regardless how noble your cause, and you shall feel the full weight of the law. Honestly, the girl's gotta understand that she screwed up and she feels horrible for it. Nobody was hurt. What is the...

As I noted elsewhere I am pulling out of the threads on gun control because of my inability to control my emotions on the issue. But the Newtown tragedy is still an important and developing event. So I was hoping we could keep appraised of what is going on here and keep the gun control talk...

CNN reporting a school shooting. How dare they mention guns might be involved. Do they just want us to turn into the USSR with guns banned and everyone forced to worship Obama? That's my prediction of a reaction on at least one gun forum before the day is over. So the question is: why are guns...

http://www.komonews.com/news/local/Controversy-swirls-around-local-transgender-college-student-177055311.html Apparently they have girls ages 6-18 using the college's facilities. In general, I support trans people being recognized as the gender they're transitioning to, but I have serious...

Argyll and Bute council bans children from taking pictures of their school dinners because catering staff fear for their jobs: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-18455348 To me, this is the jackboot of oppression crushing the little guy (or girl in this case). If the council doesn't like the...