For years, I was an active elementary school volunteer. Although I never dove headlong into the often intense world of the Parent Teacher Association (PTA), for more than a decade, I dutifully served as a room parent for one or more of my four children’s classes. Now, my youngest child is moving on to middle
My first internship gave me a simple task: Email a press release to a large list of reporters. I followed the meticulous formatting instructions from a binder, and hit send. Minutes later, a supervisor let me know that I had botched this most basic responsibility. I needed to BCC the list of recipients, something I
MINNEAPOLIS — Documents released a year after the deadly shooting at a Minneapolis Catholic church and school provide a detailed account of the swift and widespread response by law enforcement officers — who arrived within minutes and began triaging injured students. But the nearly 1,500 photos and hundreds of pages cataloging witness interviews, evidence and
Two people have been killed in a “domestic violence incident” at a school in the town of Gosen-Neu Zittau near the German capital Berlin, local police have said. Brandenburg state police said they arrested a 19-year-old German man, who is “considered a prime suspect”. They said it was not a “mass shooting”, without specifying what
My daughter is heading off to college in Southern California in late September, and I’m doing what I suspect many parents do when a child reaches this milestone: trying to be genuinely excited while quietly wondering how I’m supposed to get used to an emptier house. So last month, I took her on a “collegemoon”
CHICAGO — They arrived in a kaleidoscope of colors, but one won. For decades, the American school bus has maintained such a standard look that “school bus yellow” is national shorthand for their deep, glossy hue. No act of Congress mandated the color, with its slight orange tint. Rather, a 1939 conference of transportation officials
