In the last couple weeks, local schools have been testing their new weapons detectors, and area high schools plan to have them up and running for daily use come fall. Take a moment to digest that. Guns and extremist rhetoric have become easily accessible nationwide. Now, the scourge of ...
by Marisa Crabtree Two days after the school massacre in Uvalde, Texas, we had a 15-minute lockdown at the Los Angeles high school where I’m a teacher. A lockdown is when schoolchildren, their teachers and administrators have a dangerous threat at or near the school site. We close ...
‘Good guys with guns’ didn’t stop shooter Nineteen “good guys with guns” were totally unable to stop the systematic slaughter of 21 innocent people, 19 of whom were screaming, terrified children. Enough is enough, West Virginians. Ban assault rifles, automatic pistols and ...
by Jerald McNair I remember the days when the only thing students worried about in school was getting good grades, and when there was a healthy supply of candidates wanting to become teachers. Regrettably, those days are long gone. Our K-12 educational system is dealing with ...
by Dr. Sabreen Akhter On the afternoon that the world found out about the brutal slayings of 19 elementary schoolchildren in Texas, I was trying to sleep. I work nights as a physician in a children’s emergency department, and I had a shift later that evening. When I awoke and ...
MORGANTOWN – The House Education Committee spent five hours Thursday hashing over a bill to allow select teachers to serve as armed School Protection Officers in their buildings. HB 2364 is a substantially revised version of a bill that passed out of House Education last year but died in ...