BLOG POST #128: This week, I’m sharing research on a specific criminal case involving teenage boys making threats on social media.
A high school girl posted insulting comments on social media against a local 18-year-old boy. He retaliated with a barrage of threatening posts aimed at the girl.
When you’re in high school, being popular doesn’t necessarily make life easier. It can be just as difficult as being the lowest kid in the pecking order.
Like everyone, popular kids have the negative voice in their head telling them they’re fat or worthless, etc. Popular kids can come from turbulent homes.
BLOG POST #123: This week, I’m sharing research on a specific criminal case involving a popular high school student.
You’d think the popular football player, recently crowned Homecoming Prince, would be on top of the world. Instead, like so many teenagers, he kept his troubles inside.
Sadly, there was another school shooting this week. My thoughts and prayers go out to all who lost their loved one, to those injured, and to those who were frightened by the event.
Perpetrators of school shootings act for a broad range of reasons. And it isn’t always a student looking down the barrel of a gun.
BLOG POST #121: This week, I’m sharing research on a specific case involving a special needs teacher and her estranged husband.
The teacher and her husband dated for four years before they married. He was a pastor with a criminal history. She was known as a caring educator with a special affinity for working with children with learning disabilities.
Schools have safety policies, they perform drills to prepare for possible shooter scenarios, and they have put in place best practices. I’d venture a guess that most if not all schools now require visitors to ‘sign-in’ at the office and be issued a temporary visitor badge.
Sadly, there is no way to prepare for the school shooting in the case I’m sharing research on in the post.
BLOG POST #119: This week, I’m sharing research on a specific school shooting case involving a former middle school student.
On the day of the shooting, he first went to a sporting goods store to purchase ammunition for the high powered rifle he’d borrowed from his father without his father’s knowledge and had placed in the trunk of his car. Then he stopped for a fast food lunch before arriving at the middle school he attended twenty years ago.
School violence, when it takes a deadly turn, is hard to comprehend. For as long as there have been schools, there have been fights between students. But school violence now happens far too frequent.
BLOG POST #113: This week, I’m sharing research on a specific criminal case involving middle school students.
Because it was an intensely cold winter morning, the middle school started two hours late.
The 14-year-old student skipped his morning classes to prepare for his afternoon assault.