From NEAL PENBERTHY, Sp.Ed.Ad., retired School Principal and past president of Missouri Association of Secondary School Principal 1. WE’LL GET SUED. Landmark court cases have shown that schools ...
Tag Archives: students
Legal concerns
The numbers are troubling. In a typical high school classroom, it’s likely that two to three students have made a suicide attempt in the past year. What’s more, a prior suicide attempt is one of ...
School success
Enhancing academics through prevention It’s a troubling thought, one that adults may have a tough time comprehending. The idea that a young person, supposedly in the “prime of their life,” could ...
School-based clinics
Helping the whole child Suicide typically doesn’t occur in isolation. Other factors are usually present such as access to weapons, engaging in unprotected sex, clinical depression, bullying, ...
Cultural disparities
Disproportionately high rates of poverty, unemployment, substance abuse and suicide have plagued Native Americans for decades. On some reservations unemployment is as high as 75 percent, and ...