Posted on 12/11/2007 4:50:40 PM PST by charles m
LAS VEGAS - Six junior high or high school students were shot Tuesday after they got off a school bus, and two were critically hurt, police said.
Gunshots rang out in northeast Las Vegas just before 2 p.m., Officer Bill Cassell said.
Six young people were transported to area hospitals. Four had minor gunshot injuries and two were in critical condition, Cassell said.
At least two people are believed to have taken part in the shootings, he said. Police were not saying whether the shooting suspects were on foot or in a vehicle.
The shooting occurred less than a mile from two elementary schools, Woolley and Clyde Cox Elementary Schools. A Clark County School District official said the schools were not closed.
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Associated Press writer Kathleen Hennessey contributed to this report.
THIS IS A BREAKING NEWS UPDATE. Check back soon for further information. AP's earlier story is below.
LAS VEGAS (AP) — Six junior high or high school students were shot Tuesday after they got off a school bus, and two were critically hurt, police said.
Gunshots rang out in northeast Las Vegas just before 2 p.m., Officer Bill Cassell said.
Six young people were transported to area hospitals. Four had minor gunshot injuries and two were in critical condition, Cassell said.
At least two people are believed to have taken part in the shootings, he said. Police were not saying whether the shooting suspects were on foot or in a vehicle.
Certainly there are horror stories in both spheres.
Home schoolers need a way to police the movement and homes without being off the wall.
eventually [maybe that time is here] there will be an all out assault by evil, which will of course be met by a triumphal counter-attack that will cost many lives. doesnt really matter, I know today that I will fight against evil as God sees fit. He is the Master and will settle all this as He has planned...
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WELL PUT. Thx.
They're pushing for it in Mass. with trying to allow young girls barely into puberty to go on the pill, dispensed with or without parental notification or knowledge, by the school nurse.
And then there's the *if you don't follow your doctor's advice, we'll blow you into social services* route. If the kid's put into foster care and he becomes a ward of the state, they can give him any medication they deem necessary.
I seem to recall some drug testing for AIDS/HIV on foster care kids but don't remember where it occurred. It was some years back.
Parental rights mean nothing if social services gets into the act and if it's the school putting pressure on DSS, then the school has essentially prescribed and overseen the administration of the drug.
Yes.
This isn't a reform school ..is it?
Unfortunately, not.
I would really, really like to read about such a private school.
You won't read about that stuff around here because it is kept very, very quiet. The k-8 is fine, and in fact offers some exceptional programs, the HS is where the problems are. The academics are fairly decent, the atmosphere is the pits. It's the only private HS in the county, and they will take any student whose parents can foot the bill..........including those kicked out of the public school system.
As I have said many times, all education systems have their problems, none are perfect. We all must choose what we deem is best for our own child and should stop denegrating those who make different choices, for whatever reason.
Isn’t NE Vegas gang-infested? I think ...
You think you're cute..........you're not.
Academics do matter in this "academy," however the ability to pay the tuition bill matters far more and more times than not a blind eye is turned toward the problems.
I do not partake of any illicit pharmaceuticals, and am considered rather naive on how one acquires such, but even I know I just need to hook up with a student of this HS to get anything available.
My child is only in 4th grade, but I have friends with teenagers and not a one would put any of their kids in that school, and the majority can afford the tuition. 2 friends who are homeschoolers have told me they would put their children in the public schools in this district before they would even consider that private school. And these friends are natives to the area and are not new to homeschooling, considering 3 of 6 of their combined kids are now in college and of the other 3, 2 are elementary and 1 is of middle school age.
BTW, unlike some homeschool advocates I have encountered, these homeschooling moms actually support me in my decision to have my child in public school.
I agree that what you describe is all too true and looming larger all the time.
SHRILLERY would run wild with such.
I have to agree with the concept of the hired bus drivers. That’s a scary thought actually. (thinking about those who have quick tempers, short fuses, not enough eyes, experience and age)
I seriously doubt that these represent any statistical anomaly. They just happened to occur in a slow news period and therefore became "breaking news".
Best wishes for you and your kid.
Have a nice day.
Yea the strip always feels safe. Go one block over in some places though and you suddenly feel like you have just been transported to Mexico.
Still, I’ve gone for the past 7 Mays I plan to keep going.
Great place to hang out. I love to just sit at a bar with a Video poker machine in front of me and free drinks in my hand with a ballgame on the tv. :)
I like that feral human term. It’s a good one and it really fits the description.
Whoops, I didn’t want that safe strip comment to sound sarcastic.
I DO feel extemely safe there. lol
There are no “Yikes” needed, but I understand your sentiment.
Homeschooling is wonderful and I applaud all those that do it well, it is just not for our family. This is something my husband and I realized years ago and so knew we needed to move from where we lived because the educational choices were absolutely pathetic.
I have had my problems with the district and have addressed them, but generally I have prevailed because I am a participant, not a user. If the time comes the district is not addressing things I believe it should, I will then look to other alternatives.
Have a splendid day.
If only you thinking things made them so. Such a much better place it would be.
The fact that you did not attempt to answer the question should tell you something. I’m sure it won’t.
So, no public schooling. No private schooling. I think you're beginning to make my point for me. If you have kids who are born to single-parent moms, then they are most likely going to end up in public school. Unless you're establishing a program to pay single moms to stay at home and homeschool. Which, of course, you're not.
So my original point stands. These kids in this story were (I'd say a CI of .01, chuckle, I crack me up) stuck in their environment. They had no option to be homeschooled. And if that doesn't make you think of the million other forces at work in this story (other than the big bad public school), then you are not trying.
include layers and intensities of anti-Constitutional, anti-Christian, globalist liberalism
quite apart from the School Board and/or Superintendent.
Add in the teachers colleges and universities—the influences are more than considerable.
And yet the local district still gets to choose its curriculum and the principals and directors of curriculum and instruction oversee what is actually taught. All you need is one good principal with a vision and a good knowledge of instruction to take a school and make it a performing school. This includes removing non-performing teachers (Don't say it can't be done, a school in our area "encouraged" 10 or more of a total of 29 to move along to greener pastures by simply requiring accountability for what they were doing in the classroom. Once it became clear to the teachers they couldn't coast into retirement, they retired or moved to other districts.)
With accountability comes performance. If you get a good principal who holds teachers accountable for results, you'll see districts perform. One of the key problems of public schools is that too many principals are managers and not instructional leaders. Thus, they cannot walk into a classroom and tell you if the teacher's doing a good job. Thus there is no accountability for the teacher to actually teach. Just show up. Don't make waves. And eventually retire. Accountability to a trained instructional professional changes all that. Sorry for the rant, but I've seen amazing results from people who are motivated to change their district and actually implement instructional plans to do just that (with a heavy focus on reading at the elementary level).
Homeschooling is not necessarily cloistering. You cannot say that all homeschoolers are not cloistered.
You don't like generalizations about homeschoolers but have no problem with them when applying them to public schools. Pourquoi?
“Why are parents sending children to a school that needs “school police”?”
Why people send their children to churches that have armed guards? Why do they let them shop in malls or stores that have to have security or armed guards?
Can they do that in your state? They can't in mine. Teachers aren't allowed to prescribe drugs, or even suggest students might need them. It's considered "practicing medicine without a license" or something similar.
Maybe you need to be talking to your state lawmakers.
I will note that while these were students, this didn't happen at school, or even on school property. It happened after the students were effectively "home".
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