Two students and one teacher’s aide are dead after two school buses collided on a Knoxville, Tennessee road Tuesday afternoon. At least 27 others were injured in the Asheville Highway crash, authorities say. The children killed were in third grade or below, according to Knoxville Police Chief David Rausch. It is unclear what caused the collision, […]
An assistant principal at a Norfolk, Va. high school is under some major criticism after she retweeted a joke about interracial dating that students are describing as racist. In response, the students at Booker T. Washington High School walked out of class Monday in an act of protest. Amy Strickland’s tweet, retweeted from the account […]
A disturbing civil lawsuit is raising eyebrows after the Los Angeles Unified School District successfully argued that a 14-year-old girl “knew what she was doing,” and was mature enough to consent to having sex with her 28-year-old teacher, Elkis Hermida. In fact, Keith Wyatt, the school district’s attorney, blamed the child for her involvement, suggesting she take […]
Two Bronx teenagers, ages 13 and 14, have been charged with raping and sodomizing two sixth-grade girls in the school auditorium. Now the girls, who were assaulted at the Urban Science Academy on Oct. 16, may have to come face-to-face with their attackers, according to the NY Daily News. On Monday morning, the girls may have to sit […]
UPDATE: 5:00 PM EST Police have identified the gunman who opened fire in a Seattle school as student Jaylen Fryberg. From CNN: Fryberg was announced as the high school’s freshman homecoming king on October 17, according to YouTube video of the ceremony and accounts from students to CNN. Fryberg’s multiple social media accounts depict him frequently […]
A Maryland teacher is on administrative leave after she and a 17-year-old student fought in a hallway at Carver Vocational Technical School in West Baltimore last Friday. The student, who has not been named, was charged with assault. Students who witnessed the fight were able to capture it on video. From WBAL: The video, taken Friday and obtained […]
What issue would drive Academy Award winning actor Tim Robbins to come out on a Saturday morning to speak with community residents in South Los Angeles? What issue would inspire multi-faceted artists like Patrisse Cullors and Patrick Martinez to share their personal stories with the world? What issue would motivate artists like Olivia Wilde, Aloe […]
The heirs of Nancy Green, a woman born a slave in 1834 and the first Aunt Jemima, are suing Quaker Oats for a share of future revenue from sales of the household brand. The lawsuit, filed in August by two great-grandsons of Anna Short Harrington, say she and Green played an important role in formulating […]
A fifth-grade boy in Michigan was suspended for 10 days after authorities found him at a middle school with a loaded pistol and a list of classmates’ names. According to the Associated Press: The Traverse City Record-Eagle and MLive.com report that the title of the list, found on the back of a homework assignment belonging […]
A former student at Horace Mann School in New York has penned a book chronicling some of his most terrifying school memories involving a teacher who allegedly sexually assaulted him and bragged about driving 12 other students to commit suicide. According to the New York Post, Stephen Fife’s upcoming memoir The 13th Boy: A Memoir of Education and Abuse, […]
Let us preface the story with this — we all want to see Beyonce. We love Beyonce. Beyonce is everything. So we really can’t blame Madison, a sixth grader at the Inspired Teaching School in Washington D.C., for wanting the same thing. Her disappointment that President Obama was visiting her school for a public service […]
A little girl from Mississippi named AvaLynn came home from school with shocking injuries all over her face one day, and little AvaLynn’s mother is demanding justice. According to The Epoch Times, the girl was allegedly severely beaten by another student, but the school is saying that AvaLynn got those injuries while playing on the […]
