NY high school students will no longer need to pass Regents exams to graduate under new plan
New York state teenagers will no longer be required to pass Regents exams to earn their high school diplomas, under a new plan announced Monday by the New York State Department of Education. The Department of Education plans to eliminate the requirement that students pass five Regents exams to graduate from high school, but will […]
Vermont high school students gossiped about sex lives of peers, faculty
A Vermont high school student is under fire for using a social media app targeted at Gen Z students to anonymously mock a classmate with a disability and make speculations about others’ sexual orientation, according to reports. FizzSocial, a private message board founded by two Stanford University students that billed it as “an uplifting digital […]
Fallout of union-championed pandemic school closures is worse than imagined
School closures have negatively affected at least one generation of American children. Academic achievement declines It was the longest interruption to schooling since formal education became the norm. Mental illness, suicide, obesity and Weakened immune system. Children whose first experience in public school was limited to the brief moment when classrooms were not closed by […]
New York middle school installs vape detection systems in bathrooms that can also register sounds
A New York school district has reportedly decided to install e-cigarette detectors in middle school bathrooms. Fox News Digital. The Flexis FS300 detectors installed at Lindenhurst Middle School on Long Island can detect THC and nicotine, as well as sound, to alert school officials to possible fights or bullying. “There’s still an impact, but now […]
NYC public housing residents, posh prep school kids spark playground war — with tensions going into full swing
A concrete jungle gym war has broken out on the Upper West Side. Tensions have reached a boiling point at the playground on West 90th Street between Amsterdam and Columbus avenues, as apartment complex residents fight to keep private school families, including students from the upscale, $64,000-a-year tuition-paying Trinity School, out of the newly renovated […]
New York school district installs vape detectors in middle school bathrooms that can also pick up sound
A New York school district has begun installing e-cigarette detectors in middle school bathrooms. The FlySense FS300 e-cigarette detector, installed at Lindenhurst Middle School on Long Island, can detect nicotine and THC and also make a sound to alert school officials if there is a fight or bullying. Two e-cigarette detectors were installed in each […]
New detectors installed in Long Island middle school to stop vaping
In one Long Island town, a rite of passage for middle school students was ended after school officials installed “vape detectors” in the bathrooms. Lindenhurst Middle School installed a FlySense FS300 vape detector that can detect the presence of both nicotine in the air and THC, the compound found in marijuana. The detector can sense […]
Transgender Nashville Christian School Shooter Wanted to Return Home and Kill Her Dad After Massacre
Audrey Hale, the 28-year-old woman who shot and killed six people at a Nashville Christian school on March 27, 2023, believing they were men, wanted to return home and kill her father after the attack. On Friday, Brian Wilson of 99.7 WTN Afternoon Radio released excerpts from an interview with Metro Nashville Police Department investigators […]
Seattle student shot and killed while trying to break up fight outside high school, police say
Seattle police say a 17-year-old student was shot and killed while trying to stop a fight outside his high school. Seattle Police Deputy Chief Eric Burden called Thursday’s incident outside Garfield High School an “extraordinary tragedy for our community.” “Unfortunately, today we had another incident of gun violence at our high school,” Mayor Baden said, […]
Prosecutors Charge Crossing Guard With Distributing Narcotics To Middle School Students: REPORT
Prosecutors in Pennsylvania have accused a 26-year-old crossing guard of allegedly providing Middle School students with marijuana and electronic cigarettes, FOX29 reported Wednesday. Officials said a student reported that the crossing guard, Kiara Lee, gave Penn Wood Middle School students vapes and smoked marijuana frequently with another student, according to FOX29. The student’s guardian’s said […]