In Chicago, boys in an anti-violence mentoring program have demonstrated a 44 percent drop in arrests for violent crimes and as much as a 23 percent increase in graduate rates. Officer Tom Speece, a West Virginia SRO, was honored for…
Author: Bernie James
Safety Law News for 8/1/12
A kindergarten teacher ordered twenty-four students to line up and hit a six-year-old boy, who was also one of her students. She said he was a bully and needed to learn a lesson, but she is now on paid administrative…
Safety Law News for 7/30/12
Performance-enhancing Adderall is now a routine drug for students across the nation, according to the federal Drug Enforcement Administration. One student calls it the drug for “good kids,” as many high school students turn to Adderall under the pressure of…
Safety Law News for 7/27/12
A 15-year-old boy may need reconstructive plastic surgery after being attacked at school. His father says that educators knew of other fights in which this student had to defend himself. The principal says that educators would have acted if the…
Safety Law News for 7/24/12
After two student suicides, Florida educators say that they stop bullying in its earliest stages, while families suggest that the schools are actually rife with peer-on-peer harassment. A 17-year-old student says in a formal letter that the day before canine drug…
Safety Law News for 7/20/12
Still illegal: marijuana incidents hold about steady in Indiana, but SROs and judges say that families are more accepting of the drug—and that marijuana abuse is increasingly an intergenerational affair. Early introduction: middle school students chose a name for Jaxx…
Safety Law News for 7/16/12
Maryland educators discuss how they engage students on cyberbullying, without becoming internet monitors. School administrators praise educators for how they responded when a 13-year-old boy brought a gun to school.
Safety Law News for 7/11/12
New York City is removing principals’ ability to suspend students for certain misbehaviors, including swearing. A teacher says that students, whose misbehavior is a cry for help, sometimes need to be removed. Two New Jersey students missed their senior prom…
Safety Law News for 7/9/12
School administrators and a bus driver apparently failed to enforce an anti-bullying law, which would have better protected a fifteen-year-old bullying victim. While facts are dispute, this much is clear: on a day when this student was sexually harassed on…
Safety Law News for 7/6/12
A Connecticut school district is weighing whether to have drug dogs sniff individual students. Most districts only permit canine searches of objects, a policy that the Connecticut Association of Boards of Education endorses. Massachusetts educators adopted—and then quickly abandoned—voluntary student…