Marshall students walked out Oct. 20 in demand of feeling safer at school after a stabbing on campus the day prior.
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Things I learned after our lockdown
Things I learned after our lockdown: It is not a drill. How quickly lunch turns into a sprint for the classrooms: less than a minute. There (are) 40 of us in one room. There is no teacher in the room and I can't stop wondering why everyone knows what to do like it's a...
Bullet holes in school’s safety preparedness plans
After a recent shooting at Marjory Douglas Stoneman High School in Florida where 17 people were killed and an increase in gun-related incidents in schools across the nation, students and staff have begun to question school safety. “I think that one of the biggest...
Unsung Hero Ernesto Nunez: Bringing street knowledge to school
https://soundcloud.com/user-258580993/unsung-hero-ernesto-nunez-brings-street-knowledge-to-high-school Ernesto Nunez, better known to the students and faculty at CHAMPS Charter High School as “Ernie,” is typically the first face students see when arriving at school...
My message: Keep the youth safe
Dear future president, As a high school student, I think we can all agree that we have a lot of daily stresses. Ranging from homework, having to wake up at five in the morning after going to bed at midnight, friends and their drama, and after school activities, we...
Closed schools need open dialogues
My younger sister and I were en route to school early Tuesday morning when our mother called to inform us that school had been cancelled due to a district-wide bomb threat. I was not surprised, being that I had read about half a dozen similar instances since the San...
Opinion: Students do not take emergency drills as seriously as they should
At schools, safety drills are supposed to be a means of practice for students and staff in case of a real emergency ever occurs. Although the school tends to take fire, lockdown, and earthquake drills seriously, many students do not. Students may not be taking these...
LAUSD bomb threat that closed all schools not credible, according to authorities
The FBI has concluded that the bomb threat against Los Angeles Unified School District today was not credible, district and city officials said this evening. Classes will resume Wednesday. “We can now announce that the FBI has determined this is not a credible threat,...
LAUSD bomb threat that closed all schools may be a hoax
Congressman Adam Schiff said in an email, released by the Los Angeles Daily News, that this morning’s bomb threat against Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) schools is likely a hoax. “While we continue to gather information about the threat made against Los...
LAUSD faces mass shut down
Updated: 5:34 Schools all over Los Angeles Unfied School District closed today due to "electronic threats" made to a number of campuses in the district. All 900 campuses are closed, affecting around 700,000 students in the second largest district in the nation....