Word: homeroom
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...client will nevertheless go forward with her intent to sue the school system. He said that Bermudez complained to the school about bullying eight times, but the school system only acknowledged five of those complaints. Each time, Griggs said, Bermudez complained to the principal and to her son's homeroom teacher. "Who did [DeKalb County Schools] talk to in this independent investigation?" he said...
...members held a screening of “Milk,” the biographical film about gay activist and politician Harvey Milk that recently won two Academy Awards. On Friday morning, they handed out pink triangles—symbols of gay pride—during the students’ homeroom period. Mayor Simmons also spoke at a rally held by students during the first half of lunch...
...middle school lubricated the inevitable unease of Valentine’s Day by allowing students to purchase carnations through the student council and have them delivered to unsuspecting kids in homeroom on February 14. Apparently this was supposed to open our eyes to the wide world of gift giving and displays of romantic affection. Unfortunately for the students of Deer Path Junior High, not all of us were the cool kids who drank beer and made out, and the nerdy pre-pubescent twelve-year-old who gives another nerdy pre-pubescent twelve-year-old a pink carnation on Valentine?...
...decrease the level and degree of misbehavior in the local schools. Although the committee noted that discipline reporting may not be consistent across classrooms, acting Cambridge Rindge and Latin School (CRLS) principal Christopher Saheed attributed the decreases to a school-wide cultural change, referencing his school’s homeroom program. In this initiative, a group of twenty students are matched up with two or more teachers throughout their high school careers. This program creates an informal advising system for students towards the school’s goal of “connection, communication, and community,” Saheed...
...Teacher.com omits any mention of his obsession with molested and murdered girls. But if that document even approximates the truth, the current prime suspect in the 1996 murder of JonBenet Ramsey had hopped between enough jobs and countries over the past decade - glorified nanny in the Netherlands, homeroom instructor in Honduras, to name but two - to raise a bouquet of red flags in any principal's mind...