Serious Concerns Emerge in Debate over “Red Flag Laws”
Red flag laws or “Extreme Risk Protection Orders” have become an intensive topic of discussion and debate after the 2018 Parkland, Fla., shooting as well as the more recent shootings…
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Multiple States Seek to Expand Invasive Mental Health Screening in Schools
In the wake of multiple horrific school shootings — particularly the Parkland, Fla., massacre where 17 people were murdered by a student long-known to have mental issues — states all…
Dangerously Flawed “TeenScreen” Mental Health Program Returning to Schools
As the push for more school-based mental health intervention increases after recent high profile school shootings, one particularly controversial and inaccurate mental health screening instrument, “TeenScreen”, is starting to make…
Violent Attack in Fla. School Shows Danger of Obama-Era Discipline Policy
Andrew Pollack — father of Meadow Pollack, one of the seventeen students and staff murdered in the Parkland shooting last February — recently posted a two-part video of a fight…
New Report on Parkland School Shooting Leaves Many Questions Unanswered
A heavily redacted report was released in recent days reviewing the Broward County Public Schools’ (BCPS) handling of the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooter under federal and state special education…
Students’ Privacy Under Serious Threat in Era of School Shootings
As the number of school shootings increase, social media and mental health data are becoming very hot commodities. The federal School Safety Commission talked about how data sharing can be…
Screen and Medicate More Students? School Safety Commission Gets Wrong Message
If the White House School Safety Commission is to make wise and helpful recommendations to protect school children, it needs to have good information. Sadly, most of the witnesses chosen…
“Stunning” Report: Parkland Superintendent Misled Public About Shooter’s Past
Despite statements to the contrary by Broward County, Fla., Superintendent Robert Runcie and Sheriff Scott Israel, it has now been reported by WLRN that the Parkland school shooter, Nikolas Cruz,…
Florida Seeks to Expand Ineffective Mental Health Screening in Schools
As discussed a few weeks ago in this space, the state of Texas is ramping up its school-based mental health screening and research using students as guinea pigs. And as…
The Triumph of David Hogg — And the Death of Civil Discourse
The American tapestry is woven extensively with stories of conflict — from the first settlement at Jamestown, to the Civil War and the numerous battles in-between that took place as…
Expanding Unproven “Social Emotional Learning” Will Not Make Schools Safer
The National Commission on Social, Emotional, and Academic Learning, a joint effort of the Aspen Institute and the Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning (CASEL), has recently released more…
Parents Beware: Mental Screening of Students Ramps Up in Texas
While federal, state, and local officials are trying to improve student safety in the wake of the tragic Parkland, Fla., school shooting, the heightened concern over student mental health has…
One Thing President Trump Can Do Now to Make Schools Safer
The School Safety Commission ordered by President Trump that will discuss and recommend ways to keep schools safer after the tragic Parkland, Fla., school shooting in February is set to…
The Real Fix to School Shootings: Bring Back the Missing Fathers
This article began as a discussion of the effects of fatherlessness on our education system. But then, before the ideas had even taken shape, Nikolas Cruz walked into a school…
Florida “School Safety” Bill Would Make Schools Anything But Safe
Sadly, the great wisdom contained in Ben Franklin’s maxim, “Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety” was entirely lost…
Why the First Amendment Is at Much Greater Risk Than the Second
This article was originally posted at Townhall. Our nation’s elites are waging war on the American people, wielding the institutions they’ve spent several decades capturing to punish those who disagree with their preferred…
The 3 Biggest Forgotten Issues in the Gun Debate
It’s been two weeks since the school shooting in Parkland, Fla., and the country is still searching for answers — and solutions. For one side, the problem is with guns:…
Turning Teachers Into Psychotherapists Will Not Prevent School Shootings
In the rush to “do something” to respond to the horrific and tragic Parkland shooting in Florida, a Florida Senate committee considered bills on Monday that greatly expand mental screening…
A Tale of Two Discussions
Earlier this week I was transfixed by the drama of the White House “listening session” with President Trump and survivors of school shootings. Here were people on different sides of…
