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The Akron Public Schools Board of Education voted Monday night to approve almost $3.7 million dollars to enhance security and boost mental health support in schools after hearing from an audience packed with parents and staff concerned about school safety and student misbehavior.
The Top 10 graduating seniors from Central, Hillcrest, Kickapoo and Parkview will be honored. However, due to a tie in GPA, Glendale will honor 12.
Times Past: Dec. 29, 2020 Published: 1/1/2021 4:36:38 PM Modified: 1/1/2021 4:36:25 PM 1995 Recent contributions of $1,442.25 to the Athol Santa Fund boosted the fund drive past its $11,000 goal. ■Riverbend School recently began its Peer Mediation program. Seventeen fifth- and sixth-grade students received 20 hours of training over four weeks under the auspices of the Franklin Mediation Service in Greenfield. Peer mediation seeks to have students learn to solve problems peacefully by talking them out with one another and working towards achieving win-win resolutions in which neither party ...
Whatever. it doesn't matter frankly to me. what does matter is we better train, equip adults to deal with these issues and take step likes the l.a. school system has been courageous enough to do to better support students who are struggling. so i've been to high schools that historically were very violent, had all kinds of challenges where adults are actually relinquishing giving up some of their power, moving towards peer juries, moving towards peer mediation and empowering the teenagers themselves to take ownership, take control of the culture in the schools. and guess what? incidents of dis...
Actually relinquishing giving up some of their power, moving towards peer juries, moving towards peer mediation and empowering the teenagers themselves to take ownership, take control of the culture in the schools. and guess what? incidents of discipline and violence are going down. very significantly. >> and they got rid of this willful defiance rule. and now that changed the numbers drastically in the right direction. >> don, again, these children, 99.9% of them, these are good kids, don, really good kids who need a little extra support or love or attention or clear expectations, high expect...