The video, filmed at Carson Elementary School in Cincinnati, Ohio, is said to show Gabriel Taye being punched to the floor before being ignored for seven minutes. Students can be seen prodding and poking the youngster, with lawyers for Carson Elementary in court Wednesday in an attempt to dismiss a lawsuit filed by Gabriel’s family over his January 2017 death. Lawyers for the school say they should be immune from liability because they cannot be responsible for violence between students. Gabriel’s mother Cornelia Reynolds found him hanged next to his bunk bed, with the grieving family’s lawyers accusing Carson Elementary of covering up ‘rampant’ bullying there. Jennifer Branch, the attorney representing the family, said: ‘The school district still,...
Arlando Henderson indicted on 34 counts of financial institution fraud, theft, embezzlement and misapplication, making false entries and money laundering Henderson, an aspiring rapper, is accused of stealing $88,000 while working for a Wells Fargo branch in Charlotte, North Carolina, this summer Indictment says he used a portion of the stolen cash to buy a 2019 Mercedes-Benz, and falsified bank statements to get a car loan Henderson's social media accounts are filled with photos of the suspect posing with large stacks of cash, his new car and expensive clothes An aspiring rapper with a taste for expensive clothes, jewelry and stacks of $100 bills displayed on social media has been accused of stealing $88,000 from Wells Fargo while manning the bank's...
As a teacher myself, I feel your pain when a capable student chooses -- yes, chooses -- not to perform well academically. Cajole as we might (and do…) to convince kids like these on the merits of academic accomplishment, many of them look at us with that blank expression of adolescence that speaks volumes in its silence. What they don't say are things like these: "School is irrelevant to what I'll eventually do in life, and we both know it. Tell me how linear algebra will help me become a better attorney." "If you really cared to help me, you'd let me test out of what I know how to do so that I had time to pursue stuff that is important to...
