Though it was later deemed to be a poor attempt at a joke, Indiana authorities arrested a young teen who posted evidence of a smartphone search related to school violence. According to The Hill, the 13-year-old boy is accused of using the Siri virtual-assistant feature to declare that he intended to “shoot up a school.” …
Authorities in Florida say an elementary school security officer has been arrested on suspicion of sexually assaulting a young girl in a room on campus. According to the New York Post, 22-year-old Malcolm Curtis Tillman had been on the staff at Booker T. Washington Elementary School in Tampa since last summer and was still working …
A school superintendent in Indiana was criminally charged after she allegedly pretended a student was her own son in order to get medical treatment for the child. KFSM reports Casey Smitherman was accused of taking the student to a doctor on January 9 after he didn’t come to school due to a sore throat. Reportedly suspecting that the …
A Kansas teen is suing the high school she previously attended, alleging repeated discrimination which entailed her being told that she couldn’t perform with her dance team because her skin was “too dark.” Per The Kansas City Star, Camille Sturdivant alleged she was one of two African-American students on the 14-member Dazzler’s dance team at Blue Valley Northwest …
A teen girl in Michigan was so distraught by ongoing sexual harassment and stalking from an ex-boyfriend that she tried to take her own life, a lawsuit alleges. The Detroit Free Press obtained court documents accusing a Michigan school district of ignoring complaints about the alleged stalking and harassment of a now-17-year-old student who was …
Authorities in Michigan say a high school teacher is recuperating in the hospital following a brutal attack caught on cellphone video. According to WJBK, the incident occurred at Cody High School in Detroit on Thursday at about 10:30 a.m. One witness says a student walked into the math classroom and started physically attacking the teacher. …
An Arkansas teacher has been placed on paid administrative leave after she referred to her students as “monkeys” on Facebook, the Arkansas Democrat Gazette reports. The Little Rock teacher, whose identity has not been released, wrote on Facebook earlier this week that the “monkeys to my zoo came back today,” an apparent reference to classes …
A 32-year-old New York woman apparently pretended to be a homeless high school student, and enrolled in classes and rode the school bus with other students in December. CBS13 reports that Michaelann Goodrich is accused of lying about her age and enrolling into Cairo-Durham High School in Cairo, where she told school administrators she was 15. …
A new report in response to a deadly mass shooting in Florida last year has provided additional detail about the afternoon of February 14, when Nikolas Cruz walked into a building on the campus of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School and shot 32 people, 17 fatally, before blending in with evacuating students and leaving the …
A new report in the Sun Sentinel details the critical minutes leading up to and during February’s mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida; when former student Nikolas Cruz was able to get inside a building at the school and open fire in multiple locations, killing 17 people before escaping the …
One New Jersey school district said their wrestling team will be boycotting sporting events officiated by a referee who reportedly made a black wrestler cut his locs or forfeit his match. According to CBS News, the Buena Regional school board made their announcement a week after one of their students, Andrew Johnson, 16, was forced to …
Authorities in New Mexico say a custodian at the Barcelona Elementary School in Albuquerque is facing criminal charges after allegedly chasing a group of kids around campus at gunpoint. According to KRQE, Ray Lopez was arrested on Thursday on suspicion of counts including aggravated assault with a deadly weapon and unlawful carrying of a weapon …
