Archive for the 'School Safety' Category

School Facilitates Student’s Abortion During School Hours

Posted by Vicki No Commented March 24 2010

Under: School Policies, School Safety

A 15-year-old student, Ballard High School, Seattle, was given a pass, put in a taxi and sent off to have an abortion during school hours, all without her family’s knowledge. The girl’s mother had signed a consent form for use of the high school clinic, assuming that covered things like an earache, a sports physical, [...]

Bus Driver Cell Phone Deadly Crash

Posted by Vicki No Commented March 24 2010

Under: School Safety

Into whose hands are you trusting your children’s lives? Frederick Poust III , a 38-year-old school bus driver in PA, hadn’t slept in two days, was listening to his iPod, talking on his cell phone and ran 10 stop signs before crashing into a 1999 Honda Civic killing the passenger,  27-year-old Richard Taylor, and seriously [...]

Girl Handcuffed and Arrested For Writing on Desk

Posted by Vicki 2 Commented February 5 2010

Under: School Policies, School Safety

Twelve-year-old Alexa Gonzalez , a NYC junior high student, was arrested and taken in handcuffs to a police station for writing on her desk with an erasable marker. Gonzalez wrote “Lex was here 2/1/10″  and “I love my friends Abby and Faith.” The girl was released after being held for several hours at the police [...]

Drunk School Bus Driver

Posted by Vicki No Commented January 13 2010

Under: School Safety

Martha Thompson, 55 a school bus driver in New York plead guilty to 37 counts of reckless endangerment and has been sentenced to 90 days in jail for being drunk behind the wheel during a chaotic ride in May of 2009 captured on the bus’ surveillance video. The driver had a blood alcohol content of [...]

Boy Pulls Down Girl’s Sweatpants

Posted by Vicki No Commented January 13 2010

Under: School Safety, School Violence

A New Jersey woman, Cindy Schwalb, is in court for a disorderly conduct charge for cursing a middle school principal. A boy pulled down Schwalb’s 13-year-old daughter’s sweatpants in front of other students at Hasbrouck Heights Middle School. Schwalb attended a school board seminar about bullying and got upset when her daughter’s case wasn’t given [...]

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