High School Seniors Face Uncertainty as Hurricane Helene Impacts Asheville

15-year-old girl shoots teacher and teenager to death at Christian school in Wisconsin

A 15-year-old student opened fire inside a study hall at a small Christian school in Wisconsin, killing a teacher and teenager and prompting a swarm of police officers responding to a second grader's 911 call. A teacher and a teenager were shot to death during a firing by a 15-year-old female student at Abundant Life Christian School in Wisconsin. The …

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3 months ago

A deadly hurricane is the latest disruption for young athletes who already have endured a pandemic

The Independent

The latest headlines from our reporters across the US sent straight to your inbox each weekday Your briefing on the latest headlines from across the US Please enter a valid email address Please enter a valid email address SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. In Canton, North Carolina, the high …

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3 months, 3 weeks ago

Massachusetts high school senior, 17, meets tragic fate after going for solo drive in her car

Daily Mail

A 17-year-old Massachusetts high school senior, who died following a car crash, is being remembered by family and her community as the 'girl with the most contagious smile'. The Straub family mourn the death of the 17-year-old who had a 'contagious smile' after losing Madison's father in 2019 A fundraiser has been set up by Madison's aunt, Corey Straub, to …

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4 months ago

These are the 2 students and 2 teachers killed at Apalachee High School in Georgia

NPR

These are the 2 students and 2 teachers killed at Apalachee High School in Georgia toggle caption Jessica McGowan/Getty Images The four victims of Wednesday's mass shooting in Winder, Ga., were crucial to the interwoven fabric of a high school. All of those who lost their lives in the Apalachee High School attack were loved in their families and community. …

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4 months ago

Heartbreaking texts between boy and his mom during Georgia high school shooting revealed

Daily Mail

Heartbreaking messages between a student at Apalachee High School and his mom have revealed the moment kids learned there was an active shooter. Heartbreaking messages between a student at Apalachee High School and his mom have revealed the moment kids learned there was an active shooter NBC reports two people have died and at least four more are injured in …

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7 months ago

High school student fears dream of university is out of reach as housing, cost-of-living pressures rise

ABC

In short: A 17-year-old regional Victorian says cost of living pressures and the rental crisis are making her reconsider enrolling at a Melbourne university. A 17-year-old regional Victorian says cost of living pressures and the rental crisis are making her reconsider enrolling at a Melbourne university. "With the rising cost of living unstable accommodation, I might not be able to …

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7 months, 1 week ago

Most US students are recovering from pandemic-era setbacks, but millions are making up little ground

Associated Press

ALEXANDRIA, Va. — On one side of the classroom, students circled teacher Maria Fletcher and practiced vowel sounds. Nationally, students made up one-third of their pandemic losses in math during the past school year and one-quarter of the losses in reading, according to the Education Recovery Scorecard, an analysis of state and national test scores by researchers at Harvard and …

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11 months, 4 weeks ago

With a cost-of-living crisis and HECS rising, how do high school graduates of 2023 feel about their future?

ABC

Lilla Pearl Coffey graduated from a pre-university high school program in November 2023 — but didn't apply to uni. Sentiment shifts as enrolments plateau Peter Hurley, director of Victoria University's Mitchell Institute, said there's been a "sentiment shift" in 2023 school leavers — many are asking if tertiary education, and the debt that it brings, is worth it. Arts degrees …

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1 year ago

17-year-old kills sixth grader, wounds five others in Iowa school shooting, police say

Firstpost

Before classes returned on the first day following winter break, a 17-year-old opened fire at a small-town high school in Iowa. Mitch Mortvedt, the state investigation division’s assistant director, said during a news conference that authorities also found a “pretty rudimentary” improvised explosive device and rendered it safe. Shortly before Thursday’s shooting, Butler posted a photo on TikTok inside the …

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1 year ago

1 student dead, 5 injured in US' Iowa after teenager opens fire at high school; kills self

Hindustan Times

A teenager armed with a handgun and shotgun killed a fellow student and wounded five other people at a high school in the midwestern US state of Iowa on Thursday, authorities said. Law enforcement officers respond to a school shooting at the Perry Middle School and High School complex in Perry, Iowa, U.S. The shooting at around 7:30 am triggered …

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1 year ago

These kids want to go to school. The main obstacle? Paperwork

Associated Press

ATLANTA — It’s unclear to Tameka how — or even when — her children became unenrolled from Atlanta Public Schools. “I’m really taken aback that a district would set forth a series of policies that make it actually quite difficult to enroll your child.” In Atlanta, where Tameka lives, parents must present at least eight documents to enroll their children …

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1 year ago

Junior year of high school is the worst. How to survive it

LA Times

This column is the first installment in a new series on parenting children in the final years of high school, “Emptying the Nest.” When I was younger, one of my most hideous dreams involved being informed that my college degree and subsequent career had been rendered null and void because, through some administrative snafu or other, I had neglected to …

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1 year, 1 month ago

UNLV students build makeshift barricades as gunman opens fire

LA Times

University of Nevada, Las Vegas, students observe police activity after a shooting was reported on campus Wednesday. “It’s one of those things,” said law student Carlos Eduardo Espina, “that you want to think, it’s not gonna happen.” Then it does. “We assumed it was construction,” the broadcast journalism major said, “because there’s always construction going on.” But the bangs continued, …

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1 year, 2 months ago

After deaths of four Pepperdine students on Pacific Coast Highway, a memorial and a call to action

LA Times

Pepperdine University students embrace one another at Firestone Fieldhouse on Thursday before a vigil honoring four students who were killed in a crash on Pacific Coast Highway in Malibu. “Each departed student brought a unique gift and spirit to the University,” Pepperdine President Jim Gash said in a statement, “and we deeply grieve the unfulfilled hopes and aspirations of our …

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1 year, 4 months ago

Student who won free place at top public school hails ‘life-changing experience’

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1 year, 4 months ago

US grapples with attendance crisis as millions of kids miss weeks of school

Hindustan Times

When in-person school resumed after pandemic closures, Rousmery Negrón and her 11-year-old son both noticed a change: School seemed less welcoming. More than a quarter of students missed at least 10% of the 2021-22 school year, making them chronically absent, according to the most recent data available. Some of the things that prevent students from getting to school are consistent …

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1 year, 6 months ago

These high school grads are the COVID Class of 2023 and have the stories to prove it

LA Times

LAUSD graduating senior Estrella Salazar speaks about her high school years during the pandemic at the InnerCity Struggle office in Los Angeles. “You’re not accustomed to having that if you don’t have that in your own home.” Graduating senior Kevin Valladares speaks about his experience in the LAUSD system at the InnerCity Struggle office in Los Angeles. Graduating seniors Kevin …

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1 year, 7 months ago

This school reopened quickly after COVID. Kids’ reading was still behind

Associated Press

COLUMBUS, Kan. — Students spread out in their rural Kansas classroom, answering questions with a partner about invaders atop elephants attempting to sack Rome more than 2,000 years ago. “I have kids,” Noel said midway through the year, “that legitimately cannot read.” Noel is used to adapting to students’ needs, and she has been pulling out all the strategies in …

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1 year, 8 months ago

Never had anything like this happen : Shooting at Alabama teen birthday party kills 4 people, injures 28

India Today

Alabama law enforcement officers Sunday were imploring people to come forward with information about a shooting that killed four people and injured 28 others during a teenager’s birthday party. Philstavious “Phil” Dowdell, a Dadeville High School senior who had committed to Jacksonville State University, was celebrating at his sister Alexis’ party before he was shot to death, his grandmother Annette …

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1 year, 9 months ago

After Denver school shooting, an outcry erupts over security

Associated Press

DENVER — Outraged Denver students and parents demanded better school security and pushed for tighter firearm controls Thursday, a day after a 17-year-old student shot and wounded two administrators at a city high school beset with violence. More than 1,000 students rallied at the Colorado Capitol to push gun reform legislation, while school board members endorsed the district superintendent’s abrupt …

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1 year, 9 months ago

Denver High School Shooting Seriously Injures 2 Faculty Members

Huff Post

LOADING ERROR LOADING Two administrators were seriously injured in a shooting at East High School in Denver, Colorado, on Wednesday, when a student produced a handgun during a search and opened fire. Denver Police Chief Ron Thomas told reporters both staffers were transported to Denver Health Medical Center where one is listed in serious but stable condition. Thomas said the …

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2 years, 7 months ago

‘Online or not, high school definitely isn’t the best time of your life. Nor should it be.’

LA Times

Watching “High School Musical” or “Glee,” one might think high school is a dream and the best time of your life. Online or not, high school definitely isn’t the best time of your life. Even online school can impart valuable life lessons about work ethic, staying motivated and spotting really good loopholes. High school online is obviously not ideal, but …

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2 years, 7 months ago

‘I was locked up alone with myself, and I found peace. Through the struggle I gained confidence.’

LA Times

When I was a freshman, I expected a normal high school experience, as anyone would. The latter half of my sophomore year was the start of the lockdown — or what we were told at first, “a two-week break.” I still remember feeling helpless and being told “it gets better,” but what did they know? I was locked up alone …

2 years, 7 months ago

‘I realize connection is exactly what our world is missing.’

LA Times

In 2020, I bitterly reflected on the high school experience that the pandemic stole from me: hugging friends each day, engaging in discussions without a mute button and proudly placing a printed essay in my teacher’s hands. It reinvigorated my classmates’ appreciation for connection, creating a vibrancy on campus that makes us cherish the moments we do have together. However, …

High School

2 years, 7 months ago

10 Survivors Of School Gun Violence Share How It Still Reverberates Through Their Lives

Huff Post

LOADING ERROR LOADING Since the Columbine High School shooting in 1999, at least 185 children, teachers and other people have lost their lives in campus shootings across the country, according to The Washington Post. “I remain hopeful through all this that at some point we will ‘do something,’ but it has to be soon and it will take everyone who …

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2 years, 7 months ago

Daughter and her best friends ‘are all gone now,’ dad says

Associated Press

UVALDE, Texas — Jacklyn Cazares hadn’t yet reached her 10th birthday, but she was already a tough-minded “firecracker” always looking to help people in need, her father said. “They were like, ‘No, she’s gone.’” Cazares fought back tears as he pondered how long his daughter was in the classroom with the gunman before she was killed. Ramirez’s Facebook page includes …

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2 years, 7 months ago

Ramos’ high school class had visited elementary school earlier in week but he skipped ceremony

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2 years, 10 months ago

How Children and Teens are the Most Affected by Pandemic?

News 18

Entering high school for the first time, starting to write with a pen instead of a pencil, entering the premise of your college for the first time, or attending a fresher party. Time and the situations that entailed resulted in this transitioning category of adolescence and youth to be known as the ‘COVID Generation.’ The lack of planning in the …

Young People

2 years, 11 months ago

School reopening: How to ease children's anxiety and help them re-adjust

Hindustan Times

As schools and colleges across the country are gradually re-opening amid receding third wave of Covid-19, children no wonder are excited about meeting their friends and teachers after a significant gap of two years. We must keep in mind though that after two years of online classes, even coming back to school is a transition that children may take time …

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3 years, 1 month ago

Hiring shortages and COVID complicate schools’ year of recovery

LA Times

Teachers say it has been harder than expected to help students, largely because of school staffing shortages. Schools in some cases have been putting multiple classes together in an auditorium, cafeteria or library, where they are being supervised but not taught, said Kisha Borden, president of the San Diego Unified teachers union. “Unfortunately, teachers are feeling like they don’t have …

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3 years, 3 months ago

Senior school students in Queensland frustrated and distracted by COVID-19 home quarantine

ABC

Students from a Brisbane high school have revealed the frustrations and distractions of being forced to self-isolate in the wake of Queensland's latest COVID-19 cluster. Key points: Hundreds of senior school students are learning in home quarantine ahead of final exams Students have not been told if they will be given special considerations Three men who were believed to have …

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3 years, 5 months ago

COVID lockdowns have been hard for many year 12 students but the class of 2020 is stepping in to help

ABC

Amid the term 3 gloom of empty schoolyards, deferred exams and lockdowns, a message of hope landed in the inbox of Rosebank College in Sydney's inner west. Key points: The college's 2020 graduates have recorded messages with advice and support for the current class An educator says the videos are giving students a sense of encouragement Class of 2020 student …

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3 years, 5 months ago

Has COVID killed the dream of a 'full college experience' for university students hoping for so much more?

ABC

When Macey Holland signed up to do an agriculture degree at university she was looking forward to making new friends, getting her hands dirty on the farm as part of her course and enjoying everything university life had to offer. As universities around the country start pitching to their 2022 recruits, they're promising the "full college experience" for country students …

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3 years, 6 months ago

Hopeful, resilient, nervous: Youth of the pandemic share their thoughts after having faced a year of global crisis

Firstpost

They are among a group of young people who first spoke with The Associated Press last year, just as the pandemic started to grip the world. “We thought that the entire human population will be finished,” 10-year-old Advait said in a video interview recently filmed for the AP by the boys’ parents. That’s still very hard.” The pandemic has caused …

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3 years, 7 months ago

Unusual school life may affect children's social behaviour: Experts

Deccan Chronicle

HYDERABAD: Child psychologists suggest that several outgoing school students could face difficulties in adopting normal social behaviour as they enter college in an offline setting. Students in several schools have expressed their disappointment over not being able to meet friends and classmates like usual and even missing out on big school events and functions like investiture ceremony, sports functions, and …

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3 years, 9 months ago

Why some high school students aren’t ready to go back to school, despite the isolation

LA Times

Mina Lee, a junior, plans to finish the school year remotely, even as secondary schools in L.A. prepare to reopen. “We’ve made it this far; we can make it another two and a half months.” To date, 20% of California high school students have an option to return to school. “I don’t really know if I would want to go …

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3 years, 9 months ago

LAUSD students suffered ‘alarming’ academic harm during pandemic, report says

LA Times

Students at all levels have suffered academically since the Los Angeles Unified School District closed its campuses more than a year ago, with the greatest harm falling on younger ones and those who were faring worse before the pandemic, a new report has concluded. “The consequence of moving into the fall semester without an understanding of students’ academic and social-emotional …

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3 years, 9 months ago

In poor districts, pandemic overwhelms school counselors

Associated Press

BRIDGEPORT, Conn. — To help her students keep up with school this year, counselor Nadia Pearce has tried it all. “‘So you have to get it together, now.’” School counselors everywhere have played important roles in guiding students through the stress and uncertainty of the pandemic, but the burden has been especially heavy in urban, high-needs districts like Bridgeport, Connecticut, …

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3 years, 9 months ago

'It's exhausting.' A year of distance learning wears thin

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For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. “The first 30 minutes of class, I won’t really …

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3 years, 10 months ago

School Counselors Predict How COVID-19 Will Change Our Kids

Huff Post

Justin Paget via Getty Images For nearly a year, the lives of children in the United States, and around the world, have been turned upside down by the COVID-19 pandemic. “Middle, high school definitely and even college-age kids are living through an enormous amount of sudden change and unpredictable change that leaves people just generally anxious,” Oglesby said. “They’re kind …

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3 years, 10 months ago

For Parkland Seniors, High School Years Bookended By Tragedy

Huff Post

LOADING ERROR LOADING FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — They were baptized by gunfire their freshman year, bonded as they spent hours hiding under desks, inextricably linked by tragedy. They’d dream about what high school would bring while listening to the Miley Cyrus song “The Climb.” Price’s family moved to North Carolina for her junior year, hoping for a fresh start. “At …

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3 years, 10 months ago

For Parkland seniors, high school years bookended by tragedy

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3 years, 11 months ago

Sleepless nights. Double shifts. COVID-19 is forcing high school students to help support families

LA Times

Stephanie Contreras-Reyes, 17, center, a senior at Orthopaedic Hospital Medical Magnet High School, eats homemade pozole with her family at their home in South L.A. Rachel Varty, Stephanie’s college counselor at Orthopaedic Hospital Medical Magnet High School, said students as young as 14 have been requesting work permits. A quarter of San Francisco International High School’s 64 seniors are working …

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3 years, 11 months ago

Third of students dissatisfied with life in pandemic

NL Times

One in three students in the Netherlands are currently seriously dissatisfied with their lives, giving life in general a failing grade. This is mainly due to the coronavirus pandemic and the consequences of the lockdown, student association ISO reported after surveying 7,500 students. "They live in a new student city where they haven't made any friends yet," Janse said. And …

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4 years ago

A high school student and her brother are helping seniors feel less lonely with notes and care packages

CNN

Want more inspiring, positive news? To support lonely seniors and remind them of how much they’re loved, she began delivering care packages to nursing homes in her town of Paoli, Pennsylvania. “I knew I needed to remind them that they aren’t alone, and I did everything I could to make sure they knew that.” The teenager’s efforts are a part …

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4 years ago

What schools leavers and high school graduates are anxious about going into 2021

ABC

Arki Twyford got early acceptance to study arts at the University of Sydney, but after this year she's having second thoughts. Between the uncertainty of employment options and the skyrocketing prices of an arts degree after the Federal Government's "job-ready" graduate package was introduced, her passion seems less viable than this time last year. Sydney student Patrick Vizy wanted to …

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4 years, 1 month ago

Fewer high school graduates enrolled in college this fall amid COVID-19 pandemic, study shows

LA Times

Naomi Shacham waves to her teachers during a drive-up graduation ceremony for the Class of 2020 at the New West Charter School in Los Angeles in June. The number of students enrolling in college immediately after high school plunged nearly 22% this fall over last year, hitting high-poverty, urban schools hardest — a likely reflection of the coronavirus-related toll on …

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4 years, 1 month ago

Cut off: School closings leave rural students isolated

Associated Press

CUBA, N.M. — The midday arrival of a school bus at Cyliss Castillo’s home on the remote edge of a mesa breaks up the long days of boredom and isolation for the high school senior. The closing of classrooms and the switch to remote learning because of the coronavirus have left Castillo and other students in this school district on …

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High School Seniors Face Uncertainty as Hurricane Helene Impacts Asheville

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