Job-related stress is returning to pre-pandemic levels but teachers are not feeling as good as other professionals in the workforce, according to a January survey.
In Los Angeles, parents said they were protesting LGBTQ+ instruction in schools while holding signs that read, among other things, "No pride in grooming." Meanwhile, across the street, advocates of LGBTQ+ rights and education were counterprotesting.
Teachers remain divided over arming themselves at work, with more than half saying carrying a gun would make their school less safe, according to a new survey by the RAND Corporation.
While alone in a school bathroom, a local police officer inadvertently discharged their firearm, the Danvers police department said in a Facebook post. Local and state police had responded to a report of someone with a gun at St. John’s Prep at about 2 p.m. Monday, and the sound of the gunshot “elevated the situation,” police said.
Active shooter simulations would effectively be barred in Minnesota schools under a provision in a sweeping education bill moving. Instead, school districts would be required to provide students with at least one hour of violence prevention training per year.
An amendment added to the bill would make that same rule for private and church schools, like The Covenant School. Students and staff lived through a mass shooting 11 days ago, when six people died — including three 9-year-olds.
Fake threats of violence were made to several school districts in New York on Thursday morning, causing emergency responses from law enforcement and adding to a disturbing trend happening across the nation.
According to a poll released earlier this month, parents value school resource officers more than anything. In contrast, few believe arming teachers is a viable option.
