#school-shootings

#school-shootings

Ethan Crumbley answers yes to charges against him from assistant prosecutor during his pre-trial hearing at Oakland County Courthouse on Monday in Pontiac, Mich.Crumbley entered the guilty plea to 24 criminal charges including terrorism causing death and first-degree murder for the Oxford High School shooting.

(PONTIAC, Mich.)A teenager pleaded guilty Monday to terrorism and first-degree murder in a Michigan school shooting that killed four students and put an extraordinary focus on the boy's home life and the alleged role of his parents in the tragedy.Ethan Crumbley pleaded guilty to all 24 charges, nearly a year after the attack at Oxford High School in southeastern Michigan.

A North Hollywood elementary school already dealing with parental protests over an upcoming Pride assembly was further aggrieved after a transgender teacher's Pride flag was burned by a campus intruder, police and sources said.The angst at Saticoy Elementary School has ratcheted up since parents created an Instagram account on May 16 protesting the school's Pride month assembly, during which administrators planned to talk about families with gay parents.

Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) touted legislation she's introduced in the Senate to turn America's schools into fortresses in an effort to stop school shootings.On Tuesday's installment of Fox News Tonight, host Kayleigh McEnany noted the Biden administration's opposition to Republican calls to harden schools to prevent or mitigate mass shootings.

(CNN)Parents across the Carrollton-Farmers Branch Independent School District (CFBISD), located in a Dallas, Texas, suburb, are reeling following a string fentanyl overdoses by nine students who attend schools in the district.The students, who range in age from 13 to 17 and are not identified by name in court documents, overdosed between September 18, 2022 and February 1, 2023.

As more families learn to live with the daily threat of school shootings, San Jose residents are pushing to address campus violence before tragedy strikes.A Pew Research Center study released last week reveals nearly two-thirds of parents worry about their children's safety at school.The study shows 32% of parents are extremely concerned about potential shootings, while 37% of parents are at least somewhat concerned.

Dave Matthews Band albums seesaw between joy and angst.On the home front, with a partner and family, the songs find affection, pleasure and ease.Beyond it, the wider world holds strife and dread.And looking inward can be just as troubling.Walk Around the Moon, the band's 10th studio album, opens with its title song, swinging the beat and exulting in a relationship that has saved the grateful singer: You gave me everything/Now I'm flying into this kaleidoscopic dream.

Produced by The Ezra Klein Show' We're in the midst of a serious teen mental health crisis.The number of teenagers and young adults with clinical depression more than doubled between 2011 and 2021.The suicide rate for teenagers nearly doubled from 2007 to 2019, and tripled for 10- to 14-year- olds in particular.

In March, on Day 7 of the Gwyneth Paltrow ski trial, after the court spectacle had already been branded everything from a meme machine to the whitest trial of all time, the retired optometrist Terry Sanderson sat in the witness box, somewhat deflated already.By that point, he probably knew that his pursuit of Paltrow for damages connected to a ski collision he said was her fault was a pretty bad idea.

Three nine-year-old children and three adults arrived at the Covenant School, a small, private Christian academy in Nashville, Tennessee, on Monday for what appeared to be a normal day of school.Before noon, all six had been killed the victims of a shooter who terrorized the school with multiple firearms before being shot dead by police.

Last week, my suicidal 15-year-old grandson ingested and smoked a cocktail of several drugs.His loving parents found him nonresponsive, with a heart rate near 200 beats per minute.The emergency responders and doctors saved his life.Sadly, it was not his first attempt.He is now a ward of the state, deemed a danger to himself, and awaits a bed in a facility.

A six-year-old boy who shot his teacher in January will not face criminal charges, a prosecutor in Newport News, Virginia, said on Wednesday night.On 6 January, the first grader shot Abigail Zwerner while she was teaching class at Richneck elementary school, leaving her seriously injured.According to a lawsuit on Zwerner's behalf against the Newport News school district, school officials had given the child a one-day suspension for breaking the teacher's cellphone, and teachers alerted administrators about the child's behavior, noting they believed he had a gun.

Again, America grieves.Monday morning, an assailant wielding two assault-style weapons and a pistol gunned down three students, all age 9, and three adults at a small private Christian school in Nashville, Tennessee.It was the eighth mass killing at an American K-12 school since 2006, according to The Associated Press, and the 130th mass shooting in the country this year.

Last year, the day after the shooting in Uvalde, one of my students tearfully asked me what would happen if we had a school shooting.He asked how he would protect his sister, who was in a separate part of our campus.I began reviewing our ALICE protocol for active shooters (it stands for alert, lockdown, inform, counter and evacuate), talking about each letter in the acronym and how we would implement it, based on the shooter's location, etc.

A Denver high school student whose past behavior had prompted school officials to require that he be searched before entering the school shot two school administrators on Wednesday morning and then fled, the authorities said.The shooting happened before 10 a.m. at East High School, when the two administrators were patting down the student in an office area separate from other students and found a gun, according to the Denver Police Department.

The bill would raise the salaries of 43 percent of public school teachers.Sen. Bernie Sanders speaks at a press conference at the U.S. Capitol Building on March 1, 2023, in Washington, D.C. Anna Moneymaker / Getty Images Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vermont) introduced a bill on Thursday that takes a crack at ending a crisis that has long plagued the U.S. education system: extremely low teacher pay.

The assailant was identified as a 16-year-old ex-student who used a semi-automatic weapon and wore military fatigues.At least three people were killed and 11 wounded after a former student opened fire at two schools in the southeastern Brazilian state of Espirito Santo, police said.The alleged shooter was identified as a 16-year-old who wore military-style camouflage attire with Nazi symbols, the authorities said of the twin attacks that took place at 10am (13:00 GMT) on Friday in the town of Aracruz, 80km north of state capital Vitoria.

BRASILIA, Brazil - A shooter armed with a semiautomatic pistol and wearing a bulletproof vest fatally shot three people, including two teachers, and wounded 11 on Friday after barging into two schools in southeastern Brazil, authorities said.Are you on Telegram?Subscribe to our channel for the latest updates on Russia's war in Ukraine.

New polling finds that majorities of voters across the political spectrum support the idea.Denver teachers, students and community members picket outside South High School on February 11, 2019, in Denver, Colorado.Michael Ciaglo / Getty Images New polling finds that a proposal by Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vermont) to set a minimum salary for teachers and raise the wages of over a million teachers nationwide is overwhelmingly popular among voters.

RICHMOND, Va.Administrators at the Virginia school where a first-grader shot his teacher last week learned the child may have had a weapon in his possession before the shooting but did not find the 9mm handgun he brought to school despite searching his bag, the school system's superintendent said.Police said Friday they were not told about the tip before the shooting occurred.

The 6-year-old boy who is accused of bringing a gun to school and shooting his teacher in Newport News, Va., this month has an acute disability and had been under an intensive care plan at school, his family said on Thursday in its first statement since the shooting on Jan. 6.The statement, released through the family's lawyer, said that the boy had previously been accompanied in school each day by his mother or father as part of the plan for his disability, and that the week of the shooting was the first time that a parent was not in class with him.

25 minutes ago25 minutes ago The tragedy occurred at two schools on the same street in southeastern Espirito Santo state.Despite high rates of gun crime, school shootings are uncommon in Brazil.A gunman opened fire at two schools in southeastern Brazil on Friday, killing three people and wounding 11 others, authorities said.

Children were among the nine victims killed by a gunman at a school in central Russia on Monday, local police and government officials said.Russia's Investigative Committee said in an online statement that at least two guards, two teachers and five students were killed in the shooting in the school in Izhevsk, a city of about 640,000 people about 960 kilometres (596 miles) east of Moscow in the Udmurtia region.This screen grab taken from a footage published on September 26, 2022 on the Telegram account of Alexander Brechalov, Head of the Udmurt Republic, shows him speaking in front of school No88 in Izhevsk [Telegram / @brechalov/AFP] Any shooting at a school is a cause for deep concern for authorities, families and the nation in general.