Word: teachers
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Littleton produced a national conversation about warning signs, but Solomon's friends must not have been part of that conversation. When asked why no one told a teacher or the principal that T.J. recently threatened to bomb a classroom, the students shrug and look away, dragging on their cigarettes. The look on their face is not of shock or horror, but a numb roll of the eyes, as if they've already begun to see the shooting as some sort of campus ritual, akin to the nuclear-attack drills of the 1950s. Asked why he thought students were resorting...
...Barak earned a bachelor's degree in physics and mathematics at Jerusalem's Hebrew University. To make some spending money, he worked for a time as a private eye, specializing in cheating husbands. It was on campus that he first dated his future wife, Nava Cohen, now an English teacher. Sitting in the library beside her while they both listened to music on headphones, he handed her the movie listings with a question mark drawn at the top. She replied with an exclamation point inked over her choice. Today they have three daughters...
...classroom in Marshall Middle School in Wichita, Kans. Then they placed their chairs on top of the tables and pushed the tables against the wall, out of the windows' line of sight. Then they crawled beneath the entire pile. At first they were too slow, and although Susan's teacher didn't say too slow for what, nobody needed to ask. The second time, Susan reports proudly, "we got it down to 20 seconds." She adds, "It made me feel more comfortable if something like the Colorado shooting would happen at my school...
...discovered this on a recent Thursday when I was officially principal of P.S. 154, on West 127th Street in Harlem. I learned it from Elizabeth Jarrett, 41, the school's everyday principal, a soft-spoken former special-ed teacher who has turned the school around from one that was getting failing grades only three years ago to one that is bright and cheerful and scoring above the state average...
Here in Germany, the majority of people seem to agree that firearms don't solve problems; they kill people. The remark of the person who said the massacre could have been avoided had the teachers at Columbine been armed was amazing. It was so cynical, so out of touch with reality, and showed a Dr. Strangelove kind of arms idolatry. I am a teacher myself. Shall I teach young people respect, tolerance and fairness while I outgun them? STEFAN BARTELS Dillingen, Germany...