Currently, there are 19 states in America where corporal punishment in school is legal. In some districts, the school must have the parents’ permission, while others do not. In 1977, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in its Ingraham v. Wright decision that corporal punishment in schools is constitutional, leaving states to decide whether to allow it.
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In 2020, school districts across the South removed Confederate names from their schools. Shenandoah County, has reversed that decision.
Alabama lawmakers have unanimously approved SB157, referred to as the “Teachers’ Bill of Rights,” on Tuesday, May 7th. The bill now waits for Governor Kay Ivey’s signature to become law and will go into effect for the 2024-2025 school year.
Not all teachers are paid the same. Of course, there are differences depending on where in the country you work, how many years you have been teaching, if your school is public or private, etc. But did you know there are pay differences that can be traced to your college major?
Cyber schools couldn’t possibly have the same expenses as brick-and-mortar schools, right? They don’t need to pay for things like they don’t have to pay for things like building maintenance, sports teams and facilities, or police and security. Plus, many of them already receive tuition payments.
On April 25, 2024, a substitute teacher allegedly got into a physical altercation with a high school student.
On February 23, 2023, 17-year-old high school student Brandon Depa brutally attacked paraprofessional Joan Naydich after she took away his Nintendo Switch game. The beating was caught on school surveillance footage and released, which went viral and drew national attention. He was charged with aggravated assault, and since the victim is a school employee, he faces 30 years in prison.
According to various news sources, police in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, have confirmed that a student bitten off a teacher’s thumb last Thursday, April 18th, 2024.
We hear about teachers being assaulted by students on a regular basis. We also hear about those students receiving little to no consequences for this behavior. But when a video of the assault goes viral, and we get to see the violence ourselves, it is truly shocking.
Former Richneck Elementary School assistant principal Ebony Parker was charged with eight counts of felony child abuse and neglect in the wake of a 2023 shooting. This is a particularly significant finding as the administration is rarely held liable for incidents of this magnitude, despite teachers’ desperate pleas for help.
Republican lawmakers advanced a bill on April 9th that would allow some teachers to carry concealed guns at school. This comes almost a year to the day that a shooting occurred at a private school in Nashville, Tennessee, killing three adults and three children.
Three students have been suspended for not telling staff that the student had a gun, and there is talk of possible expulsion.