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Safety Law News for 7/20/12

by Bernie James • July 20, 2012

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 the German Shepherd puppy—and, once he is trained, their new canine friend will become part of the law enforcement team at their Connecticut school.

Safety Law News for 7/11/12

by Bernie James • July 11, 2012

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 when they refused Breathalyzer tests. They believe there is something unconstitutional about good students being searched without reasonable suspicion.

Safety Law News for 7/9/12

by Bernie James • July 9, 2012

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 the school bus, he finished his homework and then committed suicide.

Michigan educators discuss how to stem bullying through student buy-in, as they approach a statewide deadline that requires every school district and charter school to adopt anti-bullying policies.

Safety Law News for 7/6/12

by Bernie James • July 6, 2012

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 drug tests. Under the policy, when students were suspected of using drugs, they could choose to accept an oral swab test.

After an Ohio teenager wrote online that he would become “the next high school shooter,” he was charged with telecommunications harassment.

A small, poverty-filled school district is changing its students by adding behavioral mentorship to its school safety disciplinary measures.

Safety Law News for 7/2/12

by Bernie James • July 2, 2012

Education Week reports: a diverse coalition including the American Association of School Administrators and the National School Boards Association has endorsed policy guidelines on bullying and free expression.

Some students in Lynwood, California will soon be visiting the district’s Alternative Attendance Center. The district aims to provide educational, health, and counseling services to suspended and truant students.

Three students who engaged in criminal conduct—by allegedly assaulting, robbing, and threatening a high school freshman—have been charged in the freshman’s subsequent suicide.

A mother filed a police report when she learned that her sixth grade son was choked and threatened during PE. Educators in the California school have taken administrative action against two of the misbehaved students.

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