by Beth Holmes | Sep 28, 2023 | News, Teacher Issues
Black students were targeted at an in-school assembly to chastise them for their school’s poor standardized test scores. Students in grades four and five at Bunnell Elementary School were pulled out of class last Friday to attend a lecture in their cafeteria,...
by Beth Holmes | May 23, 2022 | News, Parent Issues, Student Issues, Teacher Issues
A chokehold caught on camera at a Texas school has put a national spotlight on the worst way to handle bullying. In a video that went viral Tuesday, Shaan Pritmani, a student at Coppell Middle School North is sitting at a cafeteria table when another boy standing...
by Sarah Green | Nov 21, 2016 | News, Teacher Issues
A teacher at Baltimore’s Harlem Park Elementary/Middle School has been fired after she was caught on video screaming at a classroom full of middle school students and using a racial epithet. The school is mostly black, and the teacher is white. After yelling at a...
by Supporting Education | Aug 15, 2016 | News, Student Issues, Teacher Issues
Racism is bad for mental health. While a number of studies have shown that people subjected to racist attacks tend to have higher instances of mental health problems than people who do not, a new study from the United Kingdom has shown how repeated racist attacks...
by Sarah Green | Jun 21, 2016 | Student Issues, Teacher Issues
Marley Dias is only eleven, but she’s noticed something that slips right by many adults. Something about the books she reads for school. They’re not about her. She loves to read, but even at the age of ten, she was tired of reading books about white boys,...