The Governor of Ohio, Mike DeWine, signed a bill on Monday that will make arming teachers and school staff easier by reducing the hours of training required. The bill will reduce the training requirement from 700 hours to just 24. In a briefing DeWine reasoned that the 700 hours is intended to train law enforcement, and largely irrelevant to a school setting.
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March For Our Lives Protest Across
The Country
Thousands of demonstrators took the streets and protested against gun violence at the March for Our Lives events held across the country on Saturday, June 11. These protests come in the wake of multiple mass shootings that have happened across the country in the last year, including the tragic massacre in an Uvalde, Texas Elementary school, and in Buffalo, New York. Protesters have called for stricter gun laws, and carried signs with slogans such as “I want freedom from getting shot.”
How to Support Students’ Mental Health After Covid-19
As the Covid-19 journey comes to an end, we are left facing the damaging impact it had on our mental health. A huge percentage of the population was forced to isolate itself. Many have lost people that they loved. Uncertainty and dread became our new normality, as we understood that the world as we knew it could have changed forever.
New York Teachers Asks Supreme Court to Block Vaccine Mandates
On Thursday, a group of public school teachers in New York are asking the Supreme Court to block the New York City vaccine mandate that is set to be effective on Friday afternoon.
