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Students can’t utter the N-word in school, but can read it in English class
No one believes the N-word belongs in the classroom. Yet, the racial slur appears in classic American novels routinely taught in high schools today. Should schools teach “The Adventures of Huckleberry...
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How safe are Georgia school buses?
I sit across from AJC education reporters Marlon Walker and Eric Stirgus so I witnessed their efforts to collect school bus safety data. Their investigation led to an excellent story in the Sunday AJC...
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Wisconsin college student convicted of racially motivated arson wants to...
In a message sent today to the University of Wisconsin-Madison community, Chancellor Rebecca Blank said a student convicted in 2005 of setting fire to two African-American churches now wants to start...
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Student: Georgia lawmakers endanger victims of sexual assault with campus...
Atlantan Zoë Taylor, a senior at Williams College, opposes a bill in the Georgia Legislature that limits the ability of Georgia’s public colleges to investigate and punish those accused of rape on...
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Guns on Georgia college campuses debated in Georgia
Sen. Nan Orrock speaks during a March rally opposing campus carry in 2016. The group delivered 30,000 petitions to Gov. Nathan Deal’s office urging a veto of the bill that would allow those 21 years...
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Opinion: Guns on Georgia college campuses endanger students
I have been in the northeast for a week and returned today to find Georgia back where it was a year ago with a proposal to open its public college campus to guns. The General Assembly has revived its...
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Lawmakers depict campuses as dangerous and in need of guns. Crime reports...
I continue to be amazed by the exaggeration of crime on our public colleges and universities by state lawmakers trying once again to overrule common sense and University System policy by forcing guns...
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Student survivor of sexual assault: Legislators dismiss and demean us. But we...
A survivor of sexual assault explains why she opposes House Bill 51 and why all Georgians should join her. In this video, law student Grace Starling shares her experience and her reasons for fighting...
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How often has campus carry staved off attacks in states that allow guns on...
I have two high school seniors likely to end up at public campuses in Georgia next year, one at the University of Georgia and one at Georgia Tech. Despite polls showing the majority of Georgians oppose...
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Opinion: Three bills in Legislature endanger Georgia’s colleges and universities
UPDATE: The Senate Judiciary Committee voted unanimously late Thursday to table HB 51, the campus rape bill referenced in this essay. In this column, state Rep. David Dreyer, D-Atlanta, says three...
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Why is Georgia Legislature so intent on arming college students with guns?
Why does the Legislature keep pushing guns on Georgia college campuses? Polls repeatedly show students, parents and university officials don’t want armed 21-year-olds on the state’s public campuses. To...
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Opinion: Senate listened to student survivors of sexual assault; House mocked...
Sexual assault survivor and law student Grace Starling helped lead the fight against state Rep. Earl Ehrhart’s campus rape bill, which passed the House but failed to advance in a wary Senate. Starling...
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Back from the dead and in new form, campus rape bill lives another day....
The Legislature produces its own version of “The Walking Dead,” legislation that appears lifeless yet manages to climb out of its coffin amid horrifying screams, “It’s alive! It’s alive!” The...
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Opinion: Parents beware. Georgia’s student health survey is invasive and...
Jane Robbins of Atlanta is an attorney and senior fellow at the American Principles Project, a conservative think tank. In this piece, she discusses the state’s Student Health Survey and why she...
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Opinion: Ten reasons Gov. Nathan Deal ought to veto campus carry law
Matthew Boedy, an assistant professor at the University of North Georgia, has researched whether guns are needed on Georgia’s public college campuses. Based on his research, Boedy says they are not...
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Opinion: I’m a teacher, and I don’t want to die with your child in a tornado
Rachel Williams Grimes is a tenth grade language arts teacher at Ware County High School. She says her passions are “students’ rights and future visions.” She writes an eclectic and compelling blog you...
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How safe are students traveling on school buses in metro Atlanta?
My AJC colleague Marlon Walker researched and wrote a remarkable story about the safety records of school bus drivers in metro Atlanta. His findings ought to trouble parents whose children ride school...
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Opinion: Crime data show Georgia college students, faculty, and staff don’t...
Will he or won’t he? That’s the question thousands of parents, Georgia college students and professors are wondering as Gov. Nathan Deal has 27 days left to veto the campus carry bill. House Bill 280...
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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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