Tag: Richneck Elementary
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IEPs Are Not a License for Violent Behavior at School
by Kerry Dougherty It may be time to rethink the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA), which was signed into law in 1990 by then-President George H. W. Bush. If the late president had known that some school officials would use a wrinkle in this law to keep psychopaths in the classroom I wonder if…
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Three Warnings? You’re Out of a Job.
by Kerry Dougherty Unbelievable. If what Abby Zwerner’s lawyer said yesterday in her press conference is true, it wasn’t enough to sack only the superintendent of Newport News Public Schools over the near-fatal shooting of a first-grade teacher by an armed 6-year-old. A host of other indifferent school administrators need to join him in the…