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Five years ago, I blew the whistle on a school I loved. Did it make a difference? I taught high school English at an independent school in New Jersey for seven years. I loved the school’s focus on resilience and growth. I loved my colleagues, who challenged and nurtured our students, including my own children, who attended the school. And I felt lucky to be part of such a vibrant learning community. That all changed in 2014. A young dean, fresh from an education conference hosted by the National Association of Independent Schools, led the faculty in what we now...

The brother of a terrorist who rammed a vehicle into a Michigan Jewish preschool was a Hezbollah commander, Israel Defense Forces have said. Ayman Muhammad Ghazali, 41, was shot dead after driving the vehicle into Temple Israel in West Bloomfield Township, Mich., on Thursday. His brother, Ibrahim Muhammad Ghazali, was responsible for managing weapons operations within a specialized branch of Hezbollah’s Badr Unit, the IDF said in a statement Sunday morning. This unit of the Lebanese terror group is responsible for launching hundreds of rockets toward Israeli civilians throughout the recent war with Iran, the IDF said. Ghazali’s two brothers,...

A Los Angeles high school’s “secrecy policy” kept a California couple in the dark about their only child’s gender identity, helped “sever” the family’s relationship — and ultimately drove the teen to suicide, his parents alleged. Dylan Parke was already struggling to fit in as a sophomore at Palisades Charter High School in Los Angeles in 2019-2020 when he told school staffers he would use she/her pronouns and go by the name “Aria,” as he transitioned into a woman. Parke had been diagnosed with depression, was in mental health treatment and “appeared easily influenced and preoccupied with how others perceived...

CNN’s Kaitlan Collins pressed Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA) on Wednesday over why he was the only Senate Democrat who did not sign a letter pressing for an investigation into the strike on an elementary school in Iran. Fetterman joined The Source to discuss the ongoing U.S. military operation and his view of the war as it continues through its second week. Reporting on Monday claimed that the U.S. campaign in Iran was responsible for a strike on a girls’ elementary school that killed 175 people, most of whom were children. In a letter addressed to Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth,...

[H/T Keflavik76]https://x.com/angertab/status/2031364124051980450 Matt Tardio @angertab Did the USA strike the Minab "all girls school" in Iran? No. This is the video that USA-hating MSM does not want you to see. CHAPTERS: (00:00) Location and Background (04:20) IRGC soldiers on site (04:52) IRGC memorial in "classroom" (05:36) School For Martyrs X-Posts (06:55) Roads Connecting IRGC Facility To School (08:36) Not 1,000lbs Of Explosives (Tomahawk) (09:06) Direction of Attack (12:20) Wing to Body Ration (Identifying Munition) (14:06) Angle of Attack (15:13) KH-55 Indicating features (17:56) Other Primary Schools In Manab (21:46) New York Times Biased Sources (Regime) March 10, 2026

School officials in Lee County, Florida have taken sweeping disciplinary action against students who abandoned classrooms to participate in coordinated anti-ICE walkout protests earlier this month. According to district officials, 2,480 students were identified for engaging in disruptive conduct during demonstrations that took place between February 4 and February 6, part of a broader protest movement that involved more than 3,600 students across 14 schools in the county. And now, discipline is coming down. School officials confirmed that dozens of Lee County Public School students have already been suspended for their involvement in the demonstrations, with the district warning that...

In what is becoming a growing trend, over three hundred students in a Virginia high school walked out of class in an anti-ICE protest last week. They were rewarded with a three-day suspension. The protest was not sanctioned by the school. It spilled out onto the streets of Prince William County, causing traffic disturbances requiring police attention. The real goal of this protest was soon seen: Some students reportedly went home after the protest, others headed to a nearby shopping center, and several returned to campus — where a few caused a disturbance. The school district "urged students to bring...

High schoolers in numerous blue cities around the country have regularly been playing hooky, preferring to attend anti-ICE protests rather than focus on their education. Not surprisingly, the data show that many of these so-called learning institutions have disastrous academic records.The kids don’t need to worry about consequences, though — all too often, the teachers and administrators are egging them on and skipping school themselves to join in the fun.Our teachers' unions should be so proud.On Friday, it was Los Angeles that got hit as hundreds of students left campus and headed downtown to create a little mayhem:What began as...

All. Elon Musk retweeted a chart showing the percentage of mass shooters who were transgenders. this is the URL: https://x.com/elonmusk/status/2021674796078248300 I reposted it got slammed that it was false info. People claiming that less than .1% are trans involved in mass shootings. (Most were from AI chats which i've found to lean left since not much 'right' data is available) Anyway.. does anyone have any source that show more data to show that trans are truly more involved in mass shootings? TYIA

Nine people, including the gunman, were killed and dozens were injured in a shooting at a school in Canada's British Columbia on Wednesday, police said. The Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) said a suspect has been found dead with what is believed to be a self-inflicted injury, AFP reported. The Tumbler Ridge police issued an alert after the incident at 1.20 pm local time at the Tumber Ridge Secondary School. Cops continue to ascertain if a second suspect was involved and the number of possible victims.

Almost a third of children who started reception last year were not able to use books correctly, sometimes even trying to swipe or tap them like a smartphone, a survey has found. Around one in four were not toilet trained, amid warnings more children are struggling with basic life skills. In an annual survey of primary school staff by early years charity Kindred Squared, teachers estimated 26% of the children in their reception class this year were having frequent toilet mishaps, rising to more than one in three (36%) in the North East. Staff also report around 28% of children...

These days, AI surveillance systems are everywhere. They’re watching our roads, tracking our purchases at the grocery store, and even monitoring school bathrooms. Yet those systems come with a harmful catch — they’re a little too good at flagging bad behavior, leading to a staggering number of arrests and involuntary detentions.New reporting by the Milwaukee Independent found that schools deploying surveillance systems to watch for online chatter referencing violence have logged an astonishing number of positive hits. Many of them are obviously not actionable threats, though they can lead to involuntary detention all the same.In one school district in Lawrence,...

Law enforcement officials say a 55-year-old New York man reportedly used AI to help him build bombs that he planned to detonate in Manhattan. Michael Gann of Long Island, New York, is accused of building several homemade bombs with the help of AI, an endeavor he claims was “easier than buying gun powder,” according to court documents obtained by NBC News. The suspect, who was indicted by federal prosecutors on Tuesday, allegedly transported the bombs from Long Island to Manhattan, storing five of them and four shotgun shells on the roof of an apartment building in Manhattan’s SoHo neighborhood. Court...

Meismer, a sophomore, eventually asked his teacher to use the restroom. Matthews, a senior, did the same minutes later. The pair allegedly argued there, as Matthews confronted Meismer about a missing THC vape pen that investigators said he believed the younger student had stolen. Moments later, Matthews and Meismer allegedly walked into an empty lab classroom, which an unnamed female student also entered. That is where the fatal stabbing allegedly occurred.

FIRST ON FOX: A conservative, Trump-aligned legal group filed a civil rights complaint alleging that a school district in Colorado is using race as a major factor when determining disciplinary procedures and has retaliated against administrators who attempt to push back. America First Legal (AFL), founded by top Trump advisor Stephen Miller, filed a civil rights complaint asking the Department of Education and the Department of Justice to investigate Cherry Creek School District, alleging it is in violation of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. In its complaint, AFL cites a specific instance in which a Black...

A black 18-year-old accused of fatally stabbing his White 16-year-old classmate in a classroom at Baytown Sterling High School in Baytown, Texas, has been charged with murder and is being held on a $3 million bond. Aundre Matthews reportedly killed his classmate, Sterling High School sophomore Andrew Meismer, in what prosecutors say was a fight over a vape pen. “Defendant followed the complainant to the bathroom, searched his pockets, did not find the pen, but instead found a pair of scissors on the complainant’s person. He took the scissors and put them in his own waste band,” prosecutors told the...

16-year-old Andrew Meismer was stabbed to death at a Texas school by his 18-year-old classmate Aundre Matthews on Wednesday morning. Matthews allegedly has a history at the school that includes violent altercations. The Harris County DA’s office on Friday charged Matthews with murder after he fatally stabbed Meismer with scissors during a fight at Ross S. Sterling High School. Meismer was airlifted to a hospital on Wednesday, but he died from his injuries. Goose Creek Superintendent Dr. Randal O’Brien addressed the fatal stabbing. “After careful consideration, the administration decided that the best way to serve our students and faculty in...

A teenager attacked students with a knife at a school outside Moscow on Tuesday, killing one child. The first reports appeared on several Russian Telegram channels — Baza, 112, Mash, Shot, and Ostorozhno, Novosti — which said the incident took place at a school in the settlement of Gorki-2. Russia’s Investigative Committee later confirmed the information. According to investigators, one student died in the attack. Police in the Moscow region said the victim was a 10-year-old child who had suffered stab wounds; Telegram channels reported that he was a fourth-grader. The attacker has been apprehended. Telegram channels identified him as...

With its officials facing personal liability for violating "clearly established" rights, University of Colorado Anschutz School of Medicine throws in the towel while still falsely claiming COVID vaccines can stop infection and transmission. A year and a half after the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals knocked down the University of Colorado Anschutz School of Medicine's original and revised COVID-19 vaccine mandates for discriminating against students and employees seeking religious exemptions, the school has paid an "historic" settlement to the 18 plaintiffs, their lawyers said this week. The $10.3 million settlement in damages, tuition, and attorney’s fees is one of...

Jailed teacher Enoch Burke will not be released for Christmas like he has been in the past, a High Court judge said on Wednesday. Mr Justice Brian Cregan also said he did not intend to release him for Easter and he did not understand why he was released in the past during his previous four jailings for contempt. Others in prison for contempt were not treated like this and let out even though they fail to purge their contempt, he said. The judge gave Mr Burke a review date of March 3rd, but in the meantime he has liberty to...