"Schools" Blogs & Blog Posts

One of the 10 people killed by Dimitrios Pagourtzis, a 17 year-old student, at a Sante Fe, Texas high school was a girl who reportedly rejected his repeated advances. The shooter went into his high school on Friday morning and allegedly used his fat...

From the BBC:Fining parents for taking children out of school in term time in Wales has had no effect on overall absence rates, a review has found. It shows the number of unauthorised family holidays actually increased after fixed penalty notices wer...

Right after the Parkland (Florida) shooting that killed 17 people, Donald Trump held a White House meeting. In that meeting he acted like he was listening to those with solutions to gun violence, and promised to be the first president to actually tak...

From the BBC:A car crashed into the front entrance of a secondary school at the height of the morning run.The black BMW was seen driving "at speed" around the car park of Fir Vale School in Sheffield at about 08:25 GMT before it hit the building.Two...

There has been a disturbing trend toward increased gunplay in my part of town. These are almost exclusively gang-related incidents where dealers are taking potshots at other dealers if they see the competition infringing on their territory. Gang-rela...

From The Evening Standard:Fast-food takeaways will be banned from opening within 400 metres of schools in a bid to tackle the capital’s child obesity epidemic.In addition, all new chicken, fish and chip and pizza outlets will have to sign up to min...

The chart above is from the Gallup Poll. The numbers are from polls done in August of each year from 2001 through 2017 of random national samples of 4,572 adults, with a 2 point margin of error.It shows that about 85% of America's school children att...