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Former Penn State Assistant Football Coach Jerry Sandusky was sentenced this week to 30 to 60 years in prison. The sentence essentially guaranteed that the 68-year-old Sandusky would die in prison. Sandusky, the jury determined, had abused 10 boys — all of them from disadvantaged homes. Sandusky used his connections to...
I was excited and filled with hope when I landed a job as the superintendent of a small suburban school district. My ideal, if not naïve, attitude set my compass squarely on creating a climate in the school — one where the teachers, even those whom in my opinion not...
I have no doubt that schools around the country are anxiously reviewing their student sexual harassment policies before school starts again after the summer. Two recent major verdicts — one that found Jerry Sandusky, the football coach at Penn State University, guilty of 45 counts of sexual abuse, and another...
How an Education Law and School Safety Expert Can Help Determine Liability in Sexual Abuse and Harassment Cases: Years ago, when I taught preschool, I saw two of my kids skip off toward the bathroom together. “One at a time in the bathroom, please,” I called out to Ray and Kim....
The Incidents: The gate: Mr. Finkel’s mind was racing as fast as he was driving. What would he see when he got to the school? Would his daughter be screaming in pain? How badly was she bleeding? Did she lose all her fingers? Three minutes earlier, the school nurse had called him...
All Sawyer wanted to do was to protect himself from bullies and the mean kids in middle school. He wrote to his guidance counselor, “I would like to let you know that the bullying has increased. I would like to figure out some coping mechanisms to deal with these situations,...