Posts Tagged ‘school safety’
Belgium Requires A Controversial Class Program. Now Schools Are Burning And The Country Is Worried
A series of school arsons in Belgium believed to be connected to a controversial school program in some parts of the country is prompting authorities to strengthen their police response. Interior Minister Annelies Verlinden on Friday called for a halt to the attacks in the French-speaking Wallonia region hours after another school was set on…
Read MorePolice say the teenage suspect in German knife attack may have intended to set fire to a school
A former student who wounded an eight-year-old boy with a knife at a school in eastern Germany may have intended to set the building on fire, police said Thursday. The 16-year-old suspect set himself alight after the knife attack in Bischofswerda, east of Dresden, on Wednesday. The flames were extinguished and he was arrested. The…
Read MoreTeenage Cousin of Uvalde Gunman Arrested Over Threats to a School
A 17-year-old cousin of the gunman responsible for the deadly school shooting in Uvalde, Texas, was arrested after his mother reported that he was trying to buy a gun and “do the same thing,” the authorities said on Monday. The cousin, identified as Nathan James Cruz, 17, was taken into custody on Monday morning and…
Read MoreStudents who make school threats will be suspended for one year under new TN law
Tennessee students who make threats of mass violence against schools will be expelled for one year thanks to a new state law that establishes the act as a zero-tolerance offense in the state. The state law went into effect July 1 after passing through the state legislature this past session. “I think what we’re really…
Read MoreChina kindergarten attack kills six, sparks safety worries
A 25-year-old man was suspected of attacking a kindergarten in China’s Guangdong province on Monday, killing six people and injuring one, triggering an outpouring of concern about violence against children at school. Media reported the attack in Lianjiang county in the southern province was a stabbing. The suspect, with the surname Wu and from Lianjiang,…
Read MoreMan, 24, charged in ‘hate-motivated’ stabbing attack in gender studies class at Canadian university
A 24-year-old man has been charged in the stabbing of a professor and three other people during a gender studies class at a university in Canada, in what police say was a “hate-motivated incident.” Geovanny Villalba-Aleman, an international student who had recently graduated from the University of Waterloo, is alleged to have carried out the…
Read More[CA] Kern High School District Employee Charged with Federal Explosive Offenses
A federal grand jury returned a six-count indictment today against Angelo Jackson Mendiver, 26, of Bakersfield, an employee of the Kern High School District, charging him with conspiring to commit offenses against the United States; engaging in manufacturing and dealing in explosive materials; two counts of mailing an explosive device; improper storage of explosives; and…
Read MoreOn same day, two adults charged with threats against schools in Durham, Fuquay-Varina
A 27-year-old woman faces criminal charges for making a threat against a Wake County middle School. Danielle Symone Ward, 27, of Raleigh, allegedly made what authorities called a “false report concerning mass violence on educational property” last Friday against Herbert Akins Middle School in Fuquay-Varina. The Wake County Sheriff’s Office identified and charged Ward on…
Read MoreDozens of Serbia schools receive bomb threats following mass shootings in early May
Dozens of Serbian schools on Wednesday received bomb threats, the education ministry said, amid security concerns following two mass shootings early this month, including one in an elementary school. The education ministry said 78 elementary schools and 37 high schools in Belgrade received warnings by email early on Wednesday that explosive devices had allegedly been…
Read MoreMiddle school teacher in Wisconsin arrested for threatening own students
A middle school teacher in Grafton was arrested after allegedly making threats toward students. According to the Grafton Police Department, on May 12 officers were sent to John Long Middle School after it was reported that a teacher allegedly made threatening statements towards students. The investigation showed that the seventh-grade teacher did make inappropriate and…
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