High school

Dundalk High School Teacher Charged With Assaulting 2 Students

May 19, 2022 by baltimore.cbslocal.com Leave a Comment

BALTIMORE (WJZ) — A Dundalk High School teacher is accused of assaulting two students, authorities said Thursday.

Andrew Lawrence Rader, 30, of Baltimore, was arrested Wednesday on assault charges in connection with the accusations, Baltimore County Police said.

Police said detectives continue to investigate an unspecified incident and are looking to find out if there are other victims.

Rader was taken into custody on a warrant charging him with two counts of second-degree assault, court records show.

Court records show the 30-year-old was released after posting $3,500 bond.

Specific details about the nature of the incident that resulted in Rader’s arrest weren’t immediately released Thursday.

MORE NEWS: Man, 41, Charged With Attempted Murder In April Shooting, Baltimore Police Say

Anyone with information about this case is asked to call police at 410-887-7720.

This elite Bay Area private high school is going remote as COVID infections rise

May 19, 2022 by www.sfchronicle.com Leave a Comment

An elite private high school in Oakland will go remote for the last week of classes, a precaution to stave off rising COVID-19 infections among the student body, administrators said Thursday.

Beginning Thursday morning, teachers at The College Preparatory School held classes online, hoping that the school’s 372 students would return to campus for finals on May 27, followed by in-person events to celebrate graduation.

“We’re just trying to be prudent,” Sara Sackner, the school’s director of advancement, told the Chronicle. With cases rising in the Bay Area , fueled by new, infectious variants that relentlessly spawn every four to six months, Sackner and other staff saw an opportune moment to shut down and beat back the surge.

By the middle of May health officials were reporting 2,500 coronavirus cases a day across the Bay Area — an underestimate, some experts said, because people are testing themselves at home or not getting tested at all.

Sadly, Sackner said, online education “is a skill we have had to acquire.”

She noted that although classes have shifted to computer screens, the school’s campus remains open. Sackner and other faculty worked there on Thursday.

It wasn’t immediately clear whether College Preparatory School’s decision would be a bellweather for other districts. Spokespeople for Oakland and San Francisco Unified School Districts were not immediately available for comment Thursday afternoon.

Rachel Swan is a San Francisco Chronicle staff writer. Email: [email protected] Twitter: @rachelswan

Vietnamese language included in Korean school’s career counseling for students

May 19, 2022 by en.vietnamplus.vn Leave a Comment

Students in a Vietnamese language lesson at the Myeonmok High School (Photo: VNA)

Seoul (VNA) – The Vietnamese language has since 2019 been taught at the Myeonmok High School in the Republic of Korea (RoK)’s Seoul capital, making this the first non-specialised school in the RoK to teach the language to high school students.

Principal Song Hyun-seop said Vietnamese has been included in the school’s curriculum as a second foreign language since April 2019.

Explaining this decision, he said Vietnam and the RoK enjoy many historical and cultural similarities, noting that the Ly clan from the Southeast Asian nation came to his country very early, forming the first foundation for bilateral connectivity.

Over the last 30 years, Korean enterprises have poured huge investment into Vietnam, which has created a large Korean community in Vietnam. In return, there are also many Vietnamese people in the RoK.

Therefore, the Vietnamese language skills have become highly useful, and including it in career counselling for high school students is of great necessity for them to gain momentum for learning and future development, Song noted.

With the employment of two Vietnamese-language teachers who have high capacity and deep understanding of the Korean culture, Myeonmok has held weekly meetings with all of its teachers to improve their knowledge of Vietnam and help students shape their vision.

Through these events, teachers have become more familiar with the language while more students have chosen to learn Vietnamese and paid attention to the country, according to the principal./.

VNA

Ohio high school students disciplined for posting “Whites only” and “Blacks only” signs above water fountains

May 19, 2022 by www.cbsnews.com Leave a Comment

Students at an Ohio high school have been disciplined after hanging racist signs in the school’s hallway and posting images on social media. Administrators at Colerain High School near Cincinnati say the signs were posted above water fountains for about 30 seconds on May 5, before being removed by the students who put them there.

According to social media posts, the signs above the water fountains said “Whites only” and “Blacks only” – harkening back to racist segregation-era rules.

In a statement, administrators said upon being notified about the incident, district and school officials immediately began investigating and that school officials also notified parents by letter that day.

“Those who participated in this tasteless and hurtful act have been issued significant disciplinary actions,” the statement reads. The administrators also said they take this matter very seriously. “This type of behavior is not and will not be condoned or tolerated,” they said. “The actions that were displayed do NOT reflect the values and the culture we’ve worked so hard to cultivate in all of our schools across the district.”

About 30% of the high school’s 1,730 students are Black, according to U.S. News and World Report. About 49% is white.

CBS News has reached out to the school’s principal for more information and is awaiting response.

Several high schools across the U.S. have investigated similar incidents of racism in the past few months. In Chicago, racist and anti-Semitic slurs and symbols were drawn on the wall of a school bathroom at Oak Park and River Forest High Schools earlier this month. Police were called to the school to investigate, CBS Chicago reports.

And this week, students at Coosa High School in north Georgia are suing the school after they were allegedly suspended for wearing Black Lives Matter T-shirts and protesting, CBS Atlanta reports. The students say white classmates used racial slurs and waved a Confederate flag in response to them, yet were not disciplined.

In Pearl River, New York, the superintendent said in February some of his students made “monkey noises” at Black players during a high school basketball game against Nyack High School, CBS New York reports. Administrators were already investigating complaints about a similar incident from just a few days prior.

In Forth Worth, Texas, a teacher who was involved in a racist incident earlier this year was placed on leave. The pre-AP English teacher at Paschal High School had allowed a student to repeatedly use a a racial slur during a class presentation, CBS Dallas Fort Worth reports.

Caitlin O’Kane

Caitlin O’Kane is a digital content producer covering trending stories for CBS News and its good news brand, The Uplift .

‘Blacks only,’ ‘whites only’ signs posted over water fountains at Cincinnati high school, students disciplined

May 19, 2022 by www.nbcnews.com Leave a Comment

Students at a Cincinnati high school who taped “Blacks only” and “whites only” signs over water fountains and posted pictures of the signs on social media will be disciplined, the district announced after the incident was broadcast by a local news station.

Northwest Local School District said officials were made aware of the racist incident at Colerain High School on May 5.

The district started to investigate and learned that the signs over the water fountains were posted for about 30 seconds, while the students responsible took photos. They then took the signs down, and posted photos of their handiwork online.

“Those who participated in this tasteless and hurtful act have been issued significant disciplinary actions,” said the district’s statement, which noted that “information regarding this incident was shared on the news today.” The statement was issued on May 16.

Parents at the 9-12 school were made aware of the incident in a letter from the school on May 5.

“Any student, including those who are found to have taken part in sharing the post online will also be subject to disciplinary action,” said the letter. “The actions that were displayed do not reflect the values and culture of Colerain High School or the Northwest Local School District.”

Jim Crow laws, segregating Black people from white people, were enforced in the South until 1965.

Colerain High School, which has about 1,700 students is 30 percent Black and 50 percent white, according to U.S. News and World Report .