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Burke was active in student government during high school, and has been the assistant track coach at Cambridge Rindge and Latin School. His top priorities include retraining guidance counselors, considering police duty and metal detectors for schools, and hands-on involvement from the school committee...
...make sure the place keeps no secrets from you. Since schools are populated by adolescents--that eager, suspicious, alienated, hyperbolic cohort--this alone is a full-time job. "There are two directions that schools are going in: to improve the climate and build trust, or to have metal detectors and transparent lockers," says assistant principal John Raimondo...
...Bosnian rape victims, was performed in January at Washington's Kennedy Center in front of Hillary Clinton. Next year she is planning to tour in a new piece, Points of Re-Entry, about the ways women mutilate their bodies to satisfy cultural norms, from Thai women who wear heavy metal braces to elongate their necks to American teens who starve themselves to stay thin. She visited Oklahoma City after the bombing of the federal building ("Timothy McVeigh to me is a fascinating character") and spent 10 days last summer in Kosovo gathering stories about women's experiences during...
Over the summer Webster Groves administrators reviewed the school shootings of recent years--what they had in common, what warning signs were missed, what safety measures might have made a difference--and then formulated a new security strategy. They rejected the metal detectors and bomb-sniffing dogs routinely employed by many schools in favor of an aggressive program of prevention and early detection--not just of obvious threats and violence but also of anything that might lead that way, including petty conflicts among cliques. Says assistant principal Raimondo: "We're trying to pay more attention to kids on the front...
...years the school stages a brutally realistic drunk-driving accident for 11th- and 12th-graders. Right outside, two cars are smashed together, and five "bloodied" students are put inside. Two of them are said to be dead at the scene, and a third must be extricated by firemen wielding metal cutters while a helicopter stands by. The scene always has a chilling effect on students...