In one week in March, school psychologist Tim Farrow supported a student who received a text message that her father had died unexpectedly, helped another student with affordable housing vouchers for his family, and completed a suicide risk review for a student with an intellectual disability.

Despite a wave of new laws that hit schools this week, a majority of adults oppose banishing sexual orientation or gender identity topics from U.S. classrooms.

Bans on transgender athletes in girls' high school sports have swept through red states over the last year, but the wave hit a brick wall in Indiana and Utah.

For the safety of students nationwide, it's time for the conversation around potentially life-saving monitoring technology to change. Despite the criticism, it is not designed to violate students' privacy.