Brawl breaks out at public school involving 600 people, police in riot gear respond

A fight that broke out at a troubled South Los Angeles school escalated into a campuswide brawl involving as many as 600 students
before it was quelled by police in riot gear.

Music teacher Reggie Smith described to the Los Angeles Times a chaotic scene where it was difficult to distinguish between trouble makers and those trying to avoid the mayhem.

"The kids were crazy, running from place to place jumping on other kids," Smith said. "Some of my kids were crying because they were walking to class with friends and they got jumped."

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15-year-old accused of plunging a kitchen knife into the back of a classmate at Houston public school

HOUSTON, TX -  teen is accused of stabbing another freshman Wednesday in a hallway shortly after students were dismissed from the last class of the day.

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/metropolitan/5768872.html

Two suspended in Houston Public school fist fight

HOUSTON, TX - According to Karen Collier, spokeswoman for Humble Independent School District, one boy hit another in the head with his hand or fist when a second boy joined the fray in support of the original assailant.

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Suspect in Houston public school stabbing sought

HOUSTON, TX - Dickinson police on Thursday released the name and a photo of a 15-year-old boy wanted for the stabbing of a fellow student at Dickinson High School earlier this week.

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Stabbed boy recovering, but 'scared,' family says - Houston Chronicle

HOUSTON, TX - "I was very upset that an adult can walk into a school carrying a weapon and maliciously attack a child."

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Loaded gun found at Houston public high school; student arrested

HOUSTON, TX - Loaded gun found at Angleton High; student arrested - Houston Chronicle

BREAKING NEWS: Gun found at Angleton HS

More than 20 Houston public schools promote tolerance for gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender youths

HOUSTON, TX - The Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network has registered five participating schools in Katy, at least two in the Clear Creek school district and more than 20 in the Houston area. The organization estimates that more than 6,000 schools and several hundred thousand kids will keep silent Friday.

"It's sad because we can't have a day of silence for prayer, but we can have a day of silence for that," she a public school parent.

PHOTO: Gerald Rich, 18, and Mauria Atzil, of Emery/Weiner High School, last week participated in a Day of Silence, a national event to promote tolerance for gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender youths.

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Teen sexually assaulted girl on public school bus, police say

Three Florida teens were arrested Thursday on charges they sexually assaulted a female classmate aboard a school bus parked at the high school they attend.

Authorities say the two younger male teens (15 and 16-years old) boarded the bus and acted as lookouts as the third (18-years old) "sexually battered the victim despite her resistance and protestations."

http://www.cnn.com/2008/CRIME/05/08/schoolbus.assault/index.html

Teen stabbed inside Houston public school

HOUSTON, TX -- A student has been stabbed by another student inside Dickinson High School.

Dickinson police have confirmed the attack occurred this afternoon. The injured student was taken to an area hospital by medical helicopter. There's no word on student's condition.

It's unknown if police have taken the attacker into custody. Stay with ABC13 Eyewitness News for more on this developing story.Teen stabbed inside high school

abc13.com: Teen stabbed inside high school 5/07/08

3 public schools, 3 girls, 1 day - pervert exposes himself to public school girls

HOUSTON, TX -- Spring Branch Independent School District students are on the lookout for a man who police said exposed himself to three different girls at three different campuses in the district, KPRC Local 2 reported Monday.

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Public school kindergarten classes ordered to positively portray transexuals, homosexuals, and bisexuals

New California laws will eventually demand that all public school activities and instruction be positive in their portrayal of transexuality, bisexuality and homosexuality, even when teaching children in kindergarten.

According to the Web site www.rescueyourchild.org, SB 777 will affect everything on campus – classroom instruction, curriculum materials, guest speakers, sex education, drama and music, assemblies, athletics and clubs.

Even public school insiders have joined the campaign. For example, veteran public school teacher Nadine Williams of Torrance said she will remove her grandchildren from public schools because of the new indoctrination laws.

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25% of high school girls in fights

In 2003, 25 percent of high school girls said they had been in a physical fight in the past year, according to a survey by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. (The figure for boys was 40.5 percent.)

A Justice Department report released in 2006 showed that by age 17, 21 percent of girls said they had assaulted someone with the intent to cause serious harm.

Suspects in video beating could get life in prison - CNN.com

Public school teacher gives class anti-Christian remarks, lawsuit filed

A federal lawsuit has been filed against a California teacher for alleged anti-Christian remarks made during classroom lectures.

This is not the first time a parent has complained about the teacher to the school district or the principal.

"Jesus glasses" obscure the truth and that Christians are more likely to commit rape and murder."
-- Capistrano Valley High school history teacher James Corbett

Student sues California teacher for anti-Christian remarks (OneNewsNow.com)

Nine-year-olds plotted to tie up, hurt public school teacher

ATLANTA (Reuters) - Nine-year-olds at a school in the U.S. state of Georgia brought a broken steak knife, handcuffs and electrical tape to school in a plot to injure their teacher, authorities said on Tuesday.

Nine-year-olds plotted to tie up, hurt teacher

Little Kids Getting in More Trouble Than Adults

Adults get away with it, but not these little toddlers.

Little kids labeled as sexual harassers - Washington Post- msnbc.com

Houston public school teacher fired for molesting student in his care

HOUSTON, TX - Westfield High School Spanish teacher admitted to improperly touching a student on campus.

Teacher Gets Deal After Inappropriate Relationship - Houston News Story - KPRC Houston

Houston public school: girl has baby, throws into trash, baby dies

HOUSTON, TX - Grief counselors help students and staff at a Baytown school deal with the death of a newborn in a bathroom on the campus, KPRC Local 2 reports.

Counselors Help Students Deal With Baby's Death (NBC-2 News)

Houston public schools rank third-lowest in the United States

HOUSTON TX - Houston eighth-graders posted a five-point gain on the writing portion of the National Assessment of Educational Progress, but still lagged behind many of their peers in other U.S. urban school systems. Only middle schoolers in Cleveland and Los Angeles posted 2007 scores lower that HISD's 143.

HISD 8th-graders improve in writing, but still lag behind U.S. (Houston Chronicle)

Houston-area public school student brings gun to public school

SUGAR LAND TX - A 13-year-old boy who had an unloaded revolver in his locker at a Fort Bend County school has been charged in juvenile court with possession of a firearm.

Fort Bend boy, 13, charged in school gun incident

Conroe Teen Charged In Bus Stop Attack

CONROE, Texas -- A teenager has been accused of trying to abduct a 17-year-old girl after she got off a school bus, KPRC Local 2 reported Wednesday.

Teen Charged In Bus Stop Attack - Houston News Story - KPRC Houston

Houston public school worker charged in child porn case

HOUSTON, TX - The Texas Attorney General's Cyber Crimes Unit arrested 56-year-old Richard Hulbert at his west Houston home on Tuesday.

Hulbert, who worked as a technology technician at West Briar Middle School, was accused of sharing sexually explicit images of children online.

HISD middle school worker charged in child porn case | Chron.com - Houston Chronicle

Houston public school assistant principal sneaking around and peeping at girls

SUGAR LAND, Texas -- Thursday morning, Sugar Land police arrested now former Garcia Middle School Assistant Principal Jon Jeffrey Jones and charged him with disorderly conduct for looking at two young girls (7- and 11-year-old) through a bent mini-blind in the closed blinds covering the window in their room.

A spokesperson for the Fort Bend Independent School District said Jones resigned Friday. He had been with the district for 17 years, including three as assistant principal.

Mom: Assistant Principal Was Peeping At Daughters - Houston News Story - KPRC Houston

Public middle school principal in Missouri City concurs that discipline is a "tremendous issue" on campus

MISSOURI CITY, Texas - Missouri City Middle School Principal Trevor Lemon said that discipline has been a "tremendous issue" on campus compared to the early 1980s when Lemon attended the same school.

Missouri City school eyes uniforms | Chron.com - Houston Chronicle

17-Year Old Girl Nearly Abducted After Getting Off Bus

CONROE, Texas -- A girl was nearly abducted after she got off her school bus, KPRC Local 2 reported Friday.

Montgomery County sheriff's deputies said a man tried to get the 17-year-old in his vehicle after she got off the bus on Pearson Road near Crowley Road at about 5:30 p.m. Wednesday.

Girl Nearly Abducted After Getting Off Bus - Houston News Story - KPRC Houston

Public school student sexually assaults classmate

Teen Accused Of Sexually Assaulting Classmate - Orlando News Story - WESH Orlando

Cops: public school teen's gun jams as she tries to shoot teacher

The Miami Herald says a school shooting was averted Wednesday when a 14-year-old girl's gun jammed as she tried to shoot a teacher in the parking lot of North Dade Academy in Opa-Locka, Fla.

Cops: Fla. teen's gun jams as she tries to shoot teacher - On Deadline - USATODAY.com

Public school student brings gun to school, causes school lockdown

A high school student was in custody Saturday after a day-long school lockdown caused by witness accounts of a gun in his hand, ...

Calif. student arrested after school lockdown

Texas public school teachers threatened with sexual violence, parents not warned of threat

DALLAS, TX - The sexually-charged notes have been mysteriously showing up at the school over the past few months.

A number of female educators are frightened to be alone on the school's campus.

Despite the concerns, parents were unaware of the problem.

Letters targeting teachers with sexual threats pop up at Dallas elementary schools | TOP STORIES | KHOU.com | News for Houston, Texas

Fight and gunshots inside Miami public school

Police in riot gear responded this morning to a local Miami high school after reports of a fight and possible gunshots inside the school.

ABC News: Cuffed Students Led From Miami School

Conroe public school teacher sexually assaults 15-year old girl

CONROE, Texas - Eric Foster, an algebra teacher, is accused of sexually assaulting a 15-year-old girl.

Conroe High teacher quits amid child sex case

Fifteen students fight at Houston public school, 1 hospitalized

HOUSTON, Texas - Several students were involved in a fight at a local high school, resulting in one student being taken to a hospital.

Fifteen students involved in fights

Houston public school violence: 8 students fight, cause lockdown, arrested

HOUSTON, Texas - Eight students are involved in several fights at a Fort Bend County high school, leading to a lockdown and arrests, KPRC Local 2 reports.

"Somebody outside slammed on the ground busted his head. He bled all over. There were food fights. People getting jumped," said ninth-grader Terrell Dixon.

School Fights Lead To Lockdown, Arrests

Fight brings police to Houston-area public school campus

Police were called to Thurgood Marshall High School today after a fight broke out on campus during the lunch break...

Fight brings police to Fort Bend campus | Chron.com - Houston Chronicle

Houston public school teacher verbally abuses her students, caught on tape

Teacher: "You are all just stupid kids. I swear to God," the teacher says."You are just all stupid kids."

HOUSTON, Texas - When Diana Mijares secretly bugged her foor-year-old daughter's backpack, she uncovered her child's teacher verbally abusing the students. 

ABC News: Crafty Mom Catches Teacher on Tape

Principal reprimands 4 instructors for physical contact with kids

The students at Martin Luther King Elementary in Hopkinsville were asked to remove their shoes and socks during a search. Some were patted down and had their pockets checked.

Some parents were angered by the Feb. 15 searches, which did not turn up the missing money at the western Kentucky school."The way they treat our students is ridiculous," said Zlatko Skuljan, the father of a 9-year-old girl in the class...

Students searched by teachers over missing $5 - Education- msnbc.com

More allegations against teacher

HOUSTON, Texas - A teacher was caught on tape insulting her students. Now, more parents are coming forward with complaints against the same teacher at Memorial Elementary School.

abc13.com: More allegations against a teacher allegedly caught on tape berating young students 2/27/08

Find criminal incidents at public schools

HOUSTON, Texas -- It's a frequent complaint we hear from parents. Your child comes home from school with frightening details of a violent fight on campus or reveals that police confiscated weapons from students. Many of you asked KPRC Local 2 investigative reporter Amy Davis why you never get that information from the school or district office.

"Today my kids informed me that yesterday, 2/21/08, there was police activity at their high school. Apparently some kids were caught with some firearms and rumors were spreading about a planned school shooting."

Ask Amy: Find Criminal Incidents At Schools - Local 2 Investigates News Story - KPRC Houston

Digital recorder catches teacher

A local teacher was caught on tape allegedly berating 4 and 5-year-olds [From Digital recorder catches teacher]

Conroe public school teacher charged with sex assault of child

Conroe ISD confirms Eric Foster, 39, is a math teacher at Conroe High School.

Conroe teacher charged with sex assault of child | TOP STORIES | KHOU.com | News for Houston, Texas

Police admit failure to notify public schools of criminals in class

HOUSTON, Texas - Police agencies and courthouse officials are moving to fix a serious breakdown that Local 2 Investigates found -- criminals put in classrooms without the knowledge of school officials. 

Randy Burton, the founder of advocacy group Justice for Children said, "Those are all the kinds of things that put their fellow students at risk, and clearly the schools should know about that."

If the students are released from jail, he said, "The schools can't do what they have to do to protect other students."

He called it "a serious danger."

While declining to speak about the lapse on camera, HPD Juvenile Squad Captain John Mokwa told Local 2 Investigates, "We have not been adhering to (Section) 15.27 as we should have." He said HPD had been failing to notify schools of arrests for years, adding that the department is "in sore need of having procedures ... to get it done."

"My fear is that many children were exposed to people that were dangerous," Burton said.

The Harris County District Attorney's office reported that 15,706 children were charged with crimes in 2007, including 121 on suspicion of sex crimes, 14 accused of homicide/murder and 762 felony drug charges. All of the charges would have required notices being sent by police to schools immediately after arrest.

Police Admit Failure To Notify Schools Of Criminals In Class

Public school students in Utah hide guns, head to class

The student gets dressed and decides which gun to conceal under his clothes. "After Virginia Tech, I thought 'I'm not going to be a victim,' " he said, explaining why he takes advantage of Utah laws permitting students to carry guns on campus.

Utah students hide guns, head to class

Teen injured due to fight at Houston public school

HOUSTON, Texas - A student was injured as a result of a fight at Clear Creek High School. 

A 16-year-old boy who was involved in the incident was struck and hit his head as he fell the floor. He was knocked unconscious. Life Flight and other emergency crews were called to the scene.

ABC-13 News: Teen injured due to fight at school

Meth-laced Ecstasy handy, plentiful in public school

Ecstasy is back after years of decline with a major pipeline through Canada, law enforcement officials say. Most alarming, they says, is more than half of all ecstasy seized in the U.S. last year was laced with meth. "It's easy to get," one New York teen told CNN.

Meth-laced Ecstasy handy, plentiful in schools

Houston school teacher under arrest for sex with a student

It may look like just the same old story, another teacher accused of having sex with a students, but in the Heights, the news still comes as a shock.

Teacher accused of having sex with student makes bond | TOP STORIES | KHOU.com | News for Houston, Texas

Houston public school teacher charged with sex assault

HOUSTON, Texas - Police say the teacher's father-in-law was the academy's principal when the alleged assault of a 15-year-old student occurred in May 2007.

Christopher Evans, 26, faces two counts of sexual assault and one of indecency with a child, police said.

HOUSTON CHRONICLE: Houston school teacher charged with sex assault

Public school teacher sent to prison for molesting 5 different students

A former middle school teacher was sent to prison for six years Tuesday for having sexual encounters with five teenage boys.

ABC News: 5 Student Sex Encounters, 6 Years Jailed