After the Newtown, CT school shooting, Maryland legislators are looking at a number of ways to make schools safer.
According to Annapolis Patch, delegates from Anne Arundel County are introducing legislation on Tuesday, Jan. 22 in hopes of increasing security and mental health services at public schools across the state. The proposed bill would also pay for an armed resource officer at each school. "If you really understand public schools in Maryland, you know this: They are becoming increasingly more difficult for classroom teachers because discipline is lacking at home and teachers are spending an increasing amount of time maintaining discipline in the classroom," said Del. Nic Kipke (R-Pasadena). In Montgomery County, Councilman Craig Rice (D-Dist. 2) of Germantown, a vocal advocate of school resource officers stationed in schools, told a room full …
Students built hatcheries for American shad and released the young fry into the Anacostia.
Fourth-graders from Greenbelt Elementary School released more than a thousand American shad fish into the Anacostia River on May 6, the culmination of a three-month effort to help boost the river's shad population. On Wednesday, guests attending the school’s multicultural dinner, from 6 to 7:30 p.m., will get a chance to hear about the students' grand adventure, which began in March when fourth-grade teacher Elizabeth Stewart-Hancock and two of her colleagues began teaching their students about the shad’s plight. They ate it up, according to Hancock. Shifting into high gear, her students began building and preparing hatcheries for the fish eggs that the Living Classrooms Foundation would provide. When the eggs arrived months later, their …
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Shawn
11:48 pm on Saturday, March 23, 2013
Having no fear of death is merely a side effect of a psychotropic drug. Which coincidentally, everyone of the past mass shooters were under the influence of. more ›