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School Safety Law News for 5/24/12

by Bernie James • May 24, 2012

Two Ohio elementary school students are facing criminal charges after one of them brought a loaded gun to school on Thursday. Both of them tried to hide it, but got caught.

Georgia school police use Facebook to keep schools safe.

School resource officer intercepts a student with a gun and a loaded clip on campus.

Colorado middle school student planned to plant a bomb at school, and he had the materials to do it. Another student turned him in.

School Safety Law News for 5/21/12

by Bernie James • May 21, 2012

The National Center for Education Statistics reports that 4 percent of students were “afraid of attack or harm at school” in 2009 — a threefold decline from the 12 percent who were thus afraid in 1995. Educators discuss how they use character curriculum and an emphasis on friends to prevent bullying from even starting.

California lawmakers — concerned that too many students are suspended and expelled — are revisiting zero tolerance laws.

Positive Alternatives is an alternative to suspension for middle and high school students. Students referred to the program go to the club daily and get at least a portion of their school work under way so they do not fall further behind.

School Safety Law News for 5/14/12

by Bernie James • May 14, 2012

Texas students claim that a riot broke out on campus — and they posted videos and pictures, taken with their cell phones, online. Educators claim that students created a prank riot and are giving the wrong impression via social media. Meanwhile, students involved in the fight are receiving suspensions and misdemeanors citations.

How do teachers cope with student cyber-bullies? Secondary teachers say they don’t know how to cope with cyber-bullying that goes on outside of school hours. Schools management and teaching staff are in a legal vacuum when it comes to the growing problem of online abuse of students.

‘R-word’ gets boot from students’ lingo. Members of a high school organization Project Support, comprised of students with and without special needs, got busy last month with designing T-shirts and a pledge board for people to show their support for not using the R-word.

A high school student arrested: she brought a stolen gun to school and put it in a teacher’s locker.

School Safety Law News for 5/11/12

by Bernie James • May 11, 2012

After three students posted on a “Scumbag Teachers” Tumblr page, San Francisco Unified suspended the students and banned them from graduation and prom. The school overturned its disciplinary decisions after attorneys got involved.

Trained drug dogs visit Minnesota high schools once or twice a month — a policy that is aimed at deterring drug use, so that students neither hide nor use illegal substances on campus.

California public schools are twice as likely to suspend disabled students as non-disabled students — and are three times as likely to suspend black students as white students. Educators debate whether the suspensions are merited.

School Safety Law News for 5/10/12

by Bernie James • May 10, 2012

Ten days after a student submitted a threatening essay, which detailed how he would conduct a school shooting, the student posted his essay on Facebook. Parents are upset that the school only notified them after the essay went online.

Visitors to an Indiana high school now face a double entry barrier: after they are buzzed in, their names are swiftly run through a national sex offenders database.

A Georgia mother is upset that school officials were slow to protect her daughter against groping at school. She also says that, once educators promised to act, they did not follow through on all their commitments.

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