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Counselors vital after deaths of six students, but aren’t they critical all...
A friend who is a school counselor says her work days come full of surprises. She never knows what she’ll walk into day-to-day. Today, counselors at two metro high schools walked into walls of grief....
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DeKalb student to governor: Veto campus carry so I can feel safe at a Georgia...
Jacob Busch is a junior at Chamblee Charter High School. He is also editor of his school newspaper. In this piece, the DeKalb County honors student explains how guns on campus will likely cause him to...
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If governor needs reasons to nix campus carry, go back to his 2016 veto...
Gov. Nathan Deal is not being subtle in his clues to whether he plans to sign the campus carry bill this week. Unlike last year when he vetoed similar campus carry legislation, Deal appears ready to...
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Counselors, media watchdogs worry about impact on kids from Netflix teen...
Worries over the impact of the Netflix series “13 Reasons Why” on adolescent viewers are escalating. Marietta City Schools sent home a letter advising parents its counselors and staff are seeing a rise...
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Campus carry backlash: ‘If governor wouldn’t let guns in his office, they...
Note Friday morning: The commenting tool on this blog appears to be broken. Only comments that are appearing are flowing from Facebook. CMG IT is working on this. Sorry. Maureen Parents are expressing...
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Campus carry causing parents to rule out Georgia colleges. But other states...
NOTE: Commenting is not working on the blog today — problem started yesterday. We are trying to fix. Maureen Many folks are saying on social media posts they won’t send their kids to Georgia public...
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As colleges figure out how to accommodate guns, parents continue to worry
In signing the campus carry bill over the objections of the Board of Regents, university faculty and students who resoundingly opposed the measure in polls, Gov. Nathan Deal has created a stressful...
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Should teachers try to break up fights or are risks too great?
Another video of a student scuffle at Discovery High School in Gwinnett is making the rounds today; this one shows a boy yelling at a seated classmate in a dispute over candy money and then suddenly...
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Hall County teen contends Columbine reference was not a terroristic threat....
Those of you parenting or teaching teens ought to ask them to read this new state Supreme Court decision upholding charges of terroristic threats against a Hall County teenager over a Facebook post....
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Too loud to learn: Do schools ignore the impact of noise pollution on kids?
Educational researcher C. Aiden Downey is a Decatur parent and an associated faculty at Emory University. (We are not related). Dr. Downey writes today about noise levels in schools, something few of...
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Should schools provide second chances to cops with checkered pasts?
An Atlanta Journal-Constitution and Channel 2 Actions News investigation of officers hired by school police departments revealed a troubling practice: School police forces employ officers who have been...
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Study: With more U.S. children living in high-poverty neighborhoods, schools...
A new study by researchers at Rice University, the University of Pennsylvania and the University of Wisconsin looks at the rise in U.S. children — including a spike in white kids — living in poor...
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Sign of the times in Georgia: No flipflops in UGA labs, but Glocks allowed
Georgia rose to the front page of Reddit a few days ago over the state’s campus carry law that went into effect on July 1. “Madbiologist,” a poster to the mega online discussion site, shared the above...
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Back to school: Teachers share best advice on how parents can help children
With an estimated 1.7 million Georgia public school students starting school in the next two weeks, here are some tips for helping kids succeed. And most of them focus on the role and attitude of...
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Solar eclipse 2017 countdown: Are schools half-empty today as parents keep...
School staffs, is anyone in class today? Or, is there rampant eclipse-itis as parents keep children home to watch the eclipse, the first total solar eclipse to cross the country coast to coast in...
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Citing overreach and lack of due process, DeVos backs off Obama-era campus...
In a retreat from the aggressive policies on campus sexual assault embraced by the U.S. Department of Education under Barack Obama, Betsy DeVos today announced her agency would draw up new guidelines...
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Georgia Tech student: University must improve outreach and help for suicidal...
Duo-Wei Yang is a sophomore at the Georgia Institute of Technology. She majors in Computational Media (CM) and is a freelance reporter. She has written a thoughtful piece about how Georgia Tech ought...
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Are fraternities committed to raising men or raising hell?
Louisiana State University considers the alcohol-related death this month of a freshman from Roswell “a potential hazing incident,” highlighting a grim reality of Greek Life: Frats can be fatal. A new...
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Grand jury indicts sheriff, two deputies in body searches of south Georgia...
Earlier this year, the AJC’s Brad Schrade reported on a disturbing — I would go as far as horrifying — police search of students at Worth County High School In pursuit of drugs, Worth County Sheriff...
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Fulton superintendent: Our 2016-17 school year is perhaps best in recent history
Jeff Rose is the superintendent of Fulton County Schools. In this column, Rose talks about the College and Career Ready Performance Index, the accountability metric with which Georgia grades its k-12...
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