Page 63 - School Setting News Today

biggest cities in louisiana. but it means tiny communities could soon be under many feet of water. this is what it looked like in 1973. the one and only time the morganza spillway had to be opened. theres no guarantee it will even work. the mississippi river is already dangerously high in new orleans. the army corps of engineers is hoping that by diverting water through two spillways will lower the river level and spare the city. so far, the corps says opening the morganza spillway app...

There were a lot of challenges he was facing in a traditional school setting. so i started educating myself on charter schools. >> what were some of the strategies you used to do research? >> i found a lot on the website. >> so you found strategies that you were successful? >> yes. >> smith produced a video illustrating the vision she had for a new charter school. >> this is our school site. this is context middle school 2011. >> these are people who care. theyre change agents in education and c...

Them before school, in class, at lunch time. after school. theyre looking for a connection. i think we havent talked about enough, were competing with the gangs. were competing with the drug dealers on the corner. and when students fall through the cracks, when young people dont have that mentor in the school setting, church, community, there is always a guy on the street coroner who can say come my way, ill take care of you. >> you move on to deliver the commencement address. so you have black ...

Personal level. it was to show another point of view. >> heres the problem with this. i am tired with teachers that have a position of power and privilege over students expressing political points of view. if a conservative did it, they probably would be fired. >> well, i think part of it is about choosing how you want to express your point of view. there are legal limits and i think just judgment questions in doing it in the school setting at a moment like that, where the kids are being honored...

Of view. >> sean: heres my big problem. im tired of teachers that have this position of power and privilege over students expressing political points of view. if a conservative did it, they probably would be are fired. >> i think part of it is about choosing how you want to express your point of view. there are legal limits and judgment questions in doing it in the school setting, at a moment like that where the kids are being honored. if you want to write a letter to the editor. if you want to ...

Thats make dysfunctional or a stressful work environment where people are vying for positions and power. >> i fithink if you are in a school setting and teachers are bullying one another, students are witnessing this. >> its awful. we know one of the biggest risks for kids in terms of any kind of behavior is how the adults around them behavior. because theyre modeling you, its been seen as okay, its somehow sanctioned. then they see that, okay, thats how you get things done, thats how you relate...

Order to save slavery. if you think about it, we are talking about putting statues up. its almost as if they want to do that as if they wish the south had one. they wish the war had a different outcome. it makes no sense. the idea that were the ones who are attempting to change history, it is absolutely insane. and the other part of it is, you dont have to have a memorial or a statue to be able to teach history. i think history is very important. its the only way that you keep from making the sa...

I think he was a bully when he was in elementary school and he is trying to get back at those people who now tattle tale. shaming, bully shaming or whatever. what is interesting is you have to get through so much red tape to do anything in a school setting these days. how did this happen without somebody stoping him? he came up with the idea. he printed the fliers and they went home with the students. nobody stopped this. >> they say it went home and how does this happen? >> that is very -- that...

>> we think that the answer itself is complicated and we dont know about causation but we definitely saw an association between experiencing violence or being the victim of violence in the home, and an elevated likelihood of either being bullied in a school setting or a bully. and the highest percentage of all were those individuals who said that they were both bullies and had been bullied. a third category of individuals. for those individuals, we saw a very high likelihood of having experience...