Archive for the ‘school crimes’ Category
Wednesday, October 1st, 2008
Yes, you read that correctly – 50 students were suspended from Kentridge High School after posting a video of a student’s fight on YouTube.
The video displays two girls involving in a punching match with a large group of students standing around watching. The video was captured by a student’s cell ...
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Friday, September 26th, 2008
My mother always says, think twice before you speak once. Unfortunately, a 16-year-old student from Half Hollow High School East had to learn this lesson the hard way after getting arrested at a school pep rally.
Apparently, a 16-year-old student threatened to shoot “numerous people” while at his school pep rally. ...
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Thursday, August 21st, 2008
A shooting occurred this morning around 8 a.m. at Central High School in Knoxville, Tennessee. The victim was a 16-year-old student who died shortly after arriving at the University of Tennessee Medical Center.
The shooting occurred after a dispute broke out in the school cafeteria between two students. The school’s superintendent ...
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Thursday, June 19th, 2008
Here we go, students at Naperville Central High School have published a package of stories about drug use. Now some in the administration, including principal Jim Caudill (who incidentally was reassigned to the central office for plagiarizing a speech), feel that the students have gone over the line. Now Linda ...
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Monday, June 16th, 2008
It was not long ago that I mentioned Maslow’s hierarchy of needs in my How to Keep Students Excited About School article. One of the thoughts that Dr. Maslow posits is that if we don't feel a sense of security we cannot fulfill higher functions such as learning.
The other day ...
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Wednesday, May 21st, 2008
Good Wednesday. A school in Santa Fe Texas had to confiscate all student cell phones after nudes images of two female students were being passed around, from cell to cell. Almost like the adult version of broken telephone. Here's what occurred; two girls, in 7th 8th grade, snapped up nude ...
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Tuesday, May 20th, 2008
In McHenry Il. An 18 year old high school student was arrested on felony battery charges. He later pleaded guilty to a reduced charge of misdemeanor battery.
Reading the charges I would have thought the boy had started a fight. When actually he was merely trying to get some dessert with ...
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Friday, May 16th, 2008
Ever heard of popular drink "sex on the beach"? How about "sex on a school trip"? In Newberry, South Carolina, eight middle school students ages 13 and 14, have been expelled for having sex during a field trip.
Last month, 70 students from the Mid-Carolina Middle School, along with 20 chaperons ...
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Thursday, May 15th, 2008
We can hope that zero tolerance is finally going the way of the Dodo. In Florida, the law makers are proposing to strike zero tolerance from school policy. According to this article from The Journal Florida, law makers required schools to enact a zero tolerance policy for violations of school ...
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Wednesday, May 14th, 2008
For the second time this month, homemade bottle bombs have exploded at two different Maryland High Schools. First, on May 5th, a 15-year-old freshman student nutcase brought a bottle bomb to school in his backpack. The bomb exploded during first period. Haz-mat crews and the fire department came to the school.
This ...
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