The School Board has agreed to continue equipping civilian school security personnel with pepper spray at least until January, when it will discuss the issue again. School security guards used spray three times between Oct. 19 and 26, intervening in a Lafayette-Winona Middle School cafeteria fight, a Blair Middle student altercation, and a Granby High [...]
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Pepper spray was used to break up a student fight at Blair Middle School on Monday, the second such incident in a week in the city. Two students got into a fight at Blair Middle School during lunch, and a school security guard used pepper spray to stop it, a Norfolk Public Schools news release [...]
Then the food fight turned into a real one. The incident ended with the arrests of eight students and a parent. School officials say what started as a senior prank Wednesday afternoon turned violent. Officials would not speak on camera. Both sheriff’s deputies and police officers rushed to break up the melee. “People were getting [...]
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A teenager has been convicted of first-degree murder in the Sept. 5 beating an elderly man to death. Witnesses at the preliminary hearing testified one of the defendants had been drinking and instigated the attack to show off for some girls. Witnesses said the boys struck Baker — an Arizona resident in the area for his granddaughter’s wedding [...]
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ISLE OF WIGHT, Va. (WAVY) – A weapon was confiscated after a fight at Smithfield High School Thursday, school officials confirm. The school notified parents about the afternoon incident using the alert system. According to spokeswoman Katherine Goff, there were multiple students involved in the fight; one was hurt enough to require medical attention. The [...]
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An 11th grade Halifax County High School student has been charged with disorderly conduct and possession of a concealed weapon (knife) following an altercation that is alleged to have occurred Thursday afternoon in a third floor high school science class, according to Secondary Education Superintendent Frosty Owens. Because the student allegedly dropped the knife in [...]
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Schools have a duty to protect as well as not to injure A judge has upheld a $1.25 million verdict against a high school administrator who a jury concluded was negligent in stopping a fight that left a teenager permanently injured. James Newsome punched Gregory Gagnon in the face on Dec. 14, 2006, and Gagnon’s [...]
Students aren’t the only victims of violence. While four out of five violent incidents are against students the other 20% is against staff and teachers. Many of the “advocates” fighting so hard for the rights of some forget that everyone has equal rights. Here a bus driver puts herself in harms way to stop a [...]
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