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 [...]

Continue reading about PA. Philadelphia schools take on the issue of police v. school to provide safety

The Supreme Court has granted a retrial to a woman who sued a Ballarat Primary School for injuries she incurred when restraining an aggressive student. Margaret Rees was an integration aide at the school at Delecombe when she intervened to stop one child from attacking another in 2003. She alleged she suffered anxiety, a major [...]

Continue reading about Australia. Court grants retrial on school’s duty to protect teachers and maintain a safe environment

TTAPR on November 14th, 2011

This fight was more savage than anything Brooklyn Harper had ever seen at Westlake High School. Two years ago Georgia Department of Education reduced the ability of teachers to maintain a safe environment. According to this article the total number of serious offenses rose in metro school district in direct correlation to DOE’s policy change. [...]

Continue reading about GA. Beating in Atlanta High School raises safety concerns

TTAPR on November 8th, 2011

There are claims children as young as 11 are taking weapons to school in Gisborne in the wake of a gang shooting in the city. A 30-year-old gang associate has been charged over a shooting incident yesterday and police expect to make more arrests and lay further charges. District councillor Manu Caddie says the council’s [...]

Continue reading about NZ. Students taking weapons to school

TTAPR on November 8th, 2011

Two Lawrence Central High School students were arrested Friday following a fight at school. According to the police report, one of the girls, 14, brought a socket wrench to school to use as a weapon. During his investigation, the reporting officer learned that the girls exchanged threats of physical harm via text message and social [...]

Continue reading about IN. Students arrested after a school fight

The family of a Catholic University student who was gunned down in Petworth is suing the District for $20 million in a wrongful-death suit. The lawsuit, filed Thursday in federal court in D.C., alleges that the accused shooter was a juvenile criminal offender who was in the custody of the city’s Department of Youth Rehabilitation [...]

Continue reading about D.C. Student Shot by a Juvenile in the District’s Custody. Parents sue DYRS for $20 million.

In November, 2008 the Department of Education for the State of Iowa enacted a regulation banning prone restraint at its schools despite being noticed that the regulation was illegal as it violated the 5th and 14th amendment of the Constitution, Supreme Court Rulings, Federal legislation as well as state self-defense laws. Further, Iowa DOE was [...]

Continue reading about IA. The unintended consequences of unduly restrictive and illegal regulations limiting teachers results in increased charges against juveniles and an increase in the severity of youth crime

Rioting joined reading and writing in the curriculum at Dickinson High School in Jersey City yesterday as seven students were charged, including at least one from Ferris High School, and one student was injured. One student, a 17-year-old Randolph Avenue boy, pushed two teachers during one of three fights that broke out, and he was [...]

Continue reading about NJ. Six boys arrested in fights at Dickinson High School

A no-holds-barred school brawl captured on cell phone video has led to the arrest and suspension of two teenage Chicago sisters for viciously beating a classmate, reports CBS station WBBM. The alleged assailants, Sara Mejorado, 17, and Aurelia Mejorado, 18, were charged with misdemeanor battery for the attack last week during a biology class at [...]

Continue reading about IL. Chicago High School fight videotaped. Teacher backs away from the attack while victim is assaulted.

TTAPR on October 28th, 2011

Police arrested 17 students at Gage Park High School on the city’s Southwest Side, after a fight broke out. Officers stopped one fight at the school, at 5630 S. Rockwell St., only to see another one break out in the hallway. About 12:40 p.m., police responded to a call of a fight on the third [...]

Continue reading about IL. 17 arrested after Gage Park High School Fights