Former OKC teacher arrested again, this time for alleged possession of child pornography

"A former Oklahoma City teacher accused of having a sexual relationship with a 17-year-old student has been arrested again for possession of child pornography," KOCO reports.

Oklahoma City teacher arrested for alleged sexual relationship with student

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‘Appalled’ parents accuse Kingston Public Schools of ignoring hazing, sexual assault

"Leaders at Kingston Public Schools knew about but were 'deliberately indifferent' to stopping 'traditional freshman hazing initiation' that subjected female basketball players to sexual assault, two parents in Marshall County are alleging," NonDoc reports.

Former Drumright teacher arrested on multiple sex abuse charges

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‘The modern education system is probably the single biggest threat to the mental health of children’

“The modern education system is probably the single biggest threat to the mental health of children,” Eli Stark-Elster writes in a viral Substack essay. “At the very least, the evidence for its negative effects is unambiguous.” For example:

In March 2020, COVID was born, and students were removed from school. Generally, we view COVID as an absolute scourge upon the mental health of young people. But when children stopped going to school, something interesting happened. Their suicide rates plummeted and remained low throughout the summer. In the fall—when most schools returned to in-person instruction—they started killing themselves again.

For adults aged 19-25, the resumption of in-person school had no effect on suicide rates. For teenagers, though, it’s a different story.

This data on the effects of COVID—or rather, the effects of escaping and then returning to school— is incredibly telling. The reported shifts appear specifically for adolescents who returned to school, not for their peers who remained at home during the same period. It is causation, not correlation.

But the correlations are interesting too. For decades, researchers have noted the calendar effects on child suicide and mental health visits. From 1990-2019, suicide rates among young people have always dropped precipitously during the summers and spiked again in September. Adults show no such trend.

For English students, stress-related presentations in emergency rooms also rise during school periods and drop during holidays. This is true for both girls and boys across four years of data.

In short, he writes, “school sucks so much that it reliably makes students want to hide at home, visit the ER, and take their own lives. The data has been completely clear on these points for years.”

Stark-Elster gives a tip of the cap to Boston College psychology professor Dr. Peter Gray, who has written on this topic for years. “The evidence is now overwhelming that our coercive system of schooling plays a large role in these [suicide] deaths,” Dr. Gray wrote in Psychology Today in 2018. Moreover, “actual suicides and emergency mental health admissions are just the tip of the iceberg of the distress that school produces in young people.”

Kingston schools face lawsuit over student's sexual-hazing allegation

A civil lawsuit has been filed against Kingston Public Schools over allegations that a former student was sexually hazed, KTEN reports.

Shawnee substitute teacher investigated for alleged inappropriate behavior

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Former Mustang High School teacher to stand trial

"A former Mustang High School teacher accused of multiple sex crimes involving a former student is scheduled to go on trial Monday in Canadian County," News 9 reports.

Lawton special-needs teacher faces charges related to abuse of student

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