Tag: school

Mama Duck Leads New Ducklings Through School Hall as Preschoolers Gather to Watch Them

A great experience for the ducks, and even greater for the kids! …


Swastika-Wearing Gunman Kills 13 at Russian School

MOSCOW—A gunman with a swastika on his teeshirt killed 13 people, including seven children, and wounded more than 20 at a school in Russia on Monday before committing suicide, investigators said. Russia’s Investigative Committee, which handles major crimes, said it was looking into the attacker’s suspected neo-Nazi links. It named him as Artem Kazantsev, a…


Swastika-Wearing Gunman Kills 15 in Russian School Shooting

MOSCOW—A gunman with a swastika on his teeshirt killed 15 people, including 11 children, and wounded 24 at a school in Russia on Monday before committing suicide, investigators said. The attacker, a man in his early thirties who was named by authorities as Artem Kazantsev, killed two security guards and then opened fire on students…


Parents Want Gay Sex How-To Book Removed from Texas School District

Parents in Katy, Texas, are pushing school libraries to remove books with sexual content, including one with step-by-step instructions on how to have gay sex and use sex apps to find partners. The book was featured on The Katy Railway, an Instagram site fighting to remove sexualized content from schools in the highly-rated Katy ISD…


‘Do Over’: Beginning Again When Things Go Poorly

As kids, we made up games with cards, balls, board games with missing pieces, and stuff we found around the house. If the game wasn’t going well, somebody would yell, “Do over!” Without explanations, everybody stopped, gathered the “game pieces,” and came together. After a few modifications, we simply started again. It was an effective…


Irish High Court Rejects Bid by Teacher Jailed Over Pronouns Row to End School Suspension

An Irish evangelical Christian schoolteacher who was jailed for breaching a court order following his refusal to use gender-neutral pronouns, has had his bid to prevent the school from continuing his suspension rejected by a judge. On Sept. 5, Enoch Burke was jailed after he defied a restraining order that ensued from a dispute with…


12-Year-Old Boy Charged in Shooting at California School

OAKLAND, Calif.—A 12-year-old boy who police say wounded a fellow student last month at an Oakland school after accidentally firing a gun he brought to campus has been charged in the case, authorities said. The Oakland Police Department said in a statement Tuesday the boy was charged by the Alameda County District Attorney’s Office. Prosecutors…


School to Start Wednesday in Seattle After Weeklong Strike

SEATTLE—Classes will begin Wednesday in Seattle following a weeklong teachers strike that delayed the start of the new school year. Seattle Public Schools and the Seattle Education Association announced Monday night that they had reached a tentative agreement on a new contract, and after 5 p.m. Tuesday the district announced that classes would begin Wednesday…


Teachers Union Head Blames COVID School Closures on Trump, Says Biden ‘Gets Reopening Done’

Amid reports of severe learning loss suffered by American children during school closures, American Federation of Teachers (AFT) president Randi Weingarten is trying to deflect the blame for the widespread school closures onto the Trump administration. “While former President Donald Trump and his education secretary, Ms. [Betsy] DeVos, ranted and raved, their successors put the…


LIVE 12 PM ET: NTD News Today Full Broadcast (September 5)

A think tank sues the Justice Department and the National Archives, asking for their communications about the FBI’s raid on former President Trump’s home. President Biden and former President Trump both campaigning in Pennsylvania this weekend. Trump spoke at a rally on Saturday. Biden is attending Pittsburgh’s Labor Day parade today. An administrator confesses to…