Clanton, Alabama — Sometimes, wearing rainbow colors isn’t about orientation or politicization. Sometimes, a rainbow is just a rainbow, such as when 10-year-old Hunter Blankenship of Clanton, Alabama, picked out his rainbow-colored glasses. This car-loving, autistic boy wasn’t making a statement, he just loved the look — until the day he didn’t. A few months…
Hundreds of muscle car drivers rally around bullied Alabama boy – CBS News Watch CBS News When a mother desperate to show her 10-year-old son that people care and life can be joyful put out a small request on social media, hundreds of muscle car drivers heeded the call. Steve Hartman has the story in…
WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of Education has just released a new resource to help states, school districts, and schools adopt policies for student use of cell phones and other personal devices on campus. Titled Planning Together: A Playbook for Student Personal Device Policies, the new guide “offers a model process that education leaders can…
PINE BELT, Miss. (WDAM) – Cellphones are everywhere nowadays. But state leaders in Mississippi are considering legislation that will limit their use in schools. “It’s not in any way an exception for when you’re in the classroom,” Mississippi Lt. Gov. Delbert Hosemann said. “That’s when you really learn, not off green dots on the screen.”…
China is outraged after officials in eastern China said that a case in which a boy stabbed his classmate more than 200 times with a sewing awl over three months “did not meet the standards of bullying”. According to the victim’s parents, their daughter was stabbed in her thigh by a male transfer student at…