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...wounded an assistant principal and then turned the gun on himself. "Our kids know they don't want to go down that road again," says Phil Weaver, chairman of the school's counseling department. If teachers spot a kid who's having trouble, they immediately talk to a counselor who can set up a family conference, and Teague meets weekly with the school counselors to keep informed of potential problems. A strong parent-teacher-student association makes sure kids and families are aware of all the resources available within the school. Notes Stephanie Cashwell, who has sent five children...
STUDENT INVOLVEMENT Kids are part of the solution. "To change a school environment, you have to mobilize all the resources," says Robert Myrick, an education counselor at the University of Florida, "and the best resources are the kids." A sense of security is reinforced when students feel they are part of the school and accepted by others. Like any other school, Grimsley has cliques and clusters of kids with shared interests, but students say that they exist without tension and that it is possible to bounce back and forth between groups. "It's a friendly environment," comments Tyler Brooks...
...Patty Roth, a family counselor and author of Enter at Your Own Risk, a book about parenting middle schoolers, says the first and most important thing parents can do for children who report being bullied is to believe them. "You must show your child that you take his complaint very seriously," she says. Much as you might want to, this is not the time to sign your kid up for boxing lessons. Instead, ask your child for ideas or strategies for combatting the bully...
...opened fire, spraying bullets in a sweeping motion from right to left, leaving a room filled with acrid smoke and more than 70 shells scattered on the floor. By the time he ran out the door moments later, a 68-year-old receptionist, a 16-year-old camp counselor at the day-care center and three children were wounded. "Just shooting like a maniac," says Victor Ruelas, 19, a maintenance worker who carried the most seriously wounded of the children, Benjamin Kadish, 5, to safety. When told of the extent of the boy's injuries, Ruelas hung his head...
...minus two minutes and counting!" bellows a counselor...