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“The first question that came to my mind was how many times this has happened before and the school or the police have covered it up?”
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This year, there have been nearly 100 gunfire incidents on school property in America. There have been at least three incidents of gun violence on school grounds just in the WNIJ listening area of northern Illinois and southern Wisconsin.
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“I think for a long time, not just Summit but regional programs, in general, were thought of this place we put kids we don't know how to manage. We pay a reduced rate for them to come to school and we just hope to not hear a whole lot.”
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“A great many of our students that get pulled out of their home schools on an EIA, would be for having a vape on them. Pushing that kid out of school, who is often a student on track and doing well in school, to kick them out -- we're not owning their education anymore, and outsourcing it. It really doesn't do anything to repair the harm that was done," said RPS' chief of schools.
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“I was so disappointed and disoriented by people's complete lack of understanding. I actually brought it up right early at the beginning of the year, and it got tucked away for the first two quarters. And when we approached nonfiction, our third quarter of research-based writing, we're going, ‘Hey, we’ve got to be a little different.’”
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Two classrooms sit empty as they struggle to find teachers to cover them
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As COVID-19 positivity rates in Rockford continue to rise, school bus drivers are dealing with their new normal. Catina Barnett is president of the school…