The school day was well under way when the fight between two boys broke out on the fourth floor of Overbrook High School: A 17-year-old walking to class was punched multiple times by a younger boy. At first, the unarmed school police officers who intervened didn’t think the incident was serious enough to summon city [...]
School staff found a knife on a 15-year-old boy who was preparing for a fight. After hearing rumours two pupils were planning a scrap, they took both of them aside and found one had a potentially deadly four-inch blade hidden in a piece of clothing. “One pupil was searched but nothing was found and then [...]
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A 13-year-old boy has been taken to hospital with head injuries after a fight at a school. Nottinghamshire Police said the youngster was in his Year 9 classroom at the National Church of England Academy in Annesley Road, Hucknall, at around 10am this morning when an altercation took place between him and another pupil, also [...]
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Another name for this article could be: When Schools and Administrators Have Law Enforcement Take Over Classroom Management – First Graders Get Handcuffed for Talking in Class Chicago – A South Side family is suing Chicago Public Schools claiming their son was one of several 6 and 7-year-olds who were handcuffed for hours because they [...]
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Education secretary seeks to stem ‘erosion of adult authority’ by recruiting former male soldiers to the classroom and giving power back to the teachers. So teachers can once again be safe in and control a classroom so that students respect the classroom and a learning environment can be maintained. Anyone who is familiar with England’s [...]
A STAGGERING 1,500 pupils were suspended from schools in Coventry and Warwickshire in just 12 months for attacking, threatening or swearing at their teachers. Shocking new figures for the year beginning September 2009 were released by school support staff union the GMB – which is now calling for teachers and other staff to be taught special [...]
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The school district has been ordered to train all staff on policies for restraining students following an investigation by the state education department that showed that staff, particularly at the Wilbur Elementary School, had not received proper training. The state received a complaint last November from a former paraprofessional that the school had not been [...]
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