Approximately 4 million children suffer injuries at their school every year, and only by bringing these incidents into the spotlight can we can begin to enforce more efficient safety regulations to ensure
our children are safe at school.
Eighty - eight percent of parents feel
their children are safe at school — the highest figure ever recorded by the poll — compared to the 66 percent who believe their children are safe playing in their neighborhood.
Ensuring
children are safe at school is a top priority for education professionals and parents alike, with many going so far as to argue that first aid should be added to the school curriculum.
Use a positive attitude when approaching the school and consider yourself a part of the team that will work together to make sure
your child is safe at school.
«Parents feel
their children are safer at school than at play in their own neighborhood, but recent acts of school violence have ignited debate over school safety.
At funerals, Moskowitz said, «parents all said, «I thought
my child was safe at school.»
Not exact matches
Be pre ¬ pared, in the event that there
are school closures, to allow workers flexible schedules or other accommodations so they can mind their
children and keep them
safe at home.
The shooting
at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High
School in February has reignited the debate about how to keep
children safe from a future attack, with President Trump and gun rights activists saying the best solution
is to let teachers carry guns.
Antonia Tully
is the mother of six
school - age children and co-ordinator of SPUC's Safe at School cam
school - age
children and co-ordinator of SPUC's
Safe at School cam
School campaign.
Safe Kids Connecticut is dedicated to keeping children safe and sound at home, school or at p
Safe Kids Connecticut
is dedicated to keeping
children safe and sound at home, school or at p
safe and sound
at home,
school or
at play.
There
are a number of strategies to help keep your
child safe at school.
He realized that there
were many other food allergic
children across the state whose parents
were trying to keep them
safe at school each day!
After dinner pack
school lunch - sized servings in appropriate containers that will keep food
at a
safe temperature from the time your
child leaves for
school until they
are ready to eat lunch.
YWCO After
School at Oconee County Elementary in Watkinsville, Georgia seeks to provide a nurturing, high quality,
safe and fun learning environment that
is fit for the
child's overall growth and development.
In Colorado, Nicole
was the driving force to get Senate Bill 09 - 226 introduced and passed into law requiring all
school districts to have a policy to keep food allergic
children safe at school.
The Task Force continues to this day helping to ensure that the district guidelines for keeping food allergic
children safe at school are followed, and that we continue to raise awareness about food allergies.
Those companionable,
safe moments of connection invite whatever your
child is currently grappling with to the surface, whether it
's something that happened
at school, the way you snapped
at her this morning, or her worries about tomorrow
's field trip.
He
was a key person in the passage of SB 09 - 226, a law in Colorado requiring all
school districts to have a policy to keep food allergic
children safe at school, and helped flipped senators and representatives from a «no» to a «yes» vote through his testimony.
Yet some families have managed to find certain
safe foods for their
child to eat
at school, and all
is going well.
Sometimes, keeping a
child safe and included
at school may require restricting foods, especially when
children are smaller.
And it gives you, the parent, comfort that your
child will
be safe at school from the first day.
But what about the
child who
is sent the message, we
're going to do this thing that isn't
safe for everyone because you deserve to have cupcakes
at school for your birthday?
For example, a health impact assessment conducted by the Kids»
Safe and Healthful Foods Project found that when
schools implement healthier standards for snack and a la carte foods, students
are more likely to purchase a
school meal — a change that improves
children's diets and
school budgets
at the same time, because
schools earn reimbursements for meal sales.
Todd Mahr, MD, FAAP, discusses how parents of
children with food allergies can keep their kids
safe while they
're at school.
If your
child is being harassed or threatened
at school, you must enlist the help of the teacher and principal in keeping your
child safe.
«Every
child deserves a
safe learning environment and every parent has the right to know that his or her
child is safe while
at school,» Bloomberg said.
«This report
is evidence of the strong determination the City Council and the Department of Education share to ensure that the
children parents entrust to
schools» care, return to them
safe at each day's end,» said Council Member Robert E. Cornegy, Jr., the law's lead sponsor.
Bullied has
been endorsed by Charles Haynes, Senior Scholar
at the First Amendment Center; Kevin Gogin, Program Coordinator, Support Services for LGBT Youth, San Francisco Unified
School District; Sandra Lee Fewer, Commissioner, San Francisco Unified
School District and these organizations: Alabama
Safe Schools Coalition, Anti-Defamation League, Committee for
Children, Encompass, Fortunate Families, GLSEN, Groundspark, Mississippi State
Schools Coalition, National
Safe Schools Coalition, NEA, New York State United Teachers, PFLAG National and Welcoming
Schools / HRC.
His family deserves answers — and all Rochester families deserve to know that their
children will
be safe at school,» said Attorney General Schneiderman.
«The truth
is that all parents want their
children to
be safe at school.
Parents work hard to get into the «right»
school mostly in the belief that the «right»
school will have more students
at a similar level of academic development to their
child that
is also more
safe, and has programs and resources that will foster more student growth as a result.
In his first interview as a candidate, Katko took aim
at the New York
SAFE Act, a strict gun - control law that Gov. Andrew Cuomo signed one month after 20
children and six adults
were shot dead
at Sandy Hook Elementary
School in Newtown, Conn..
«I would like to
be convinced that Sen. Felder's legislation
is the best way to make my
children safer at school.»
«This study shows how our teams
are leveraging synthetic biology not only to reprogram microbes to create living cellular devices that can carry out useful functions for medicine and environmental remediation, but to do this in a way that
is safe for all,» said Wyss Institute Founding Director Donald Ingber, M.D., Ph.D., who
is also the Judah Folkman Professor of Vascular Biology
at HMS and the Vascular Biology Program
at Boston
Children's Hospital, as well as Professor of Bioengineering
at the Harvard John A. Paulson
School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS).
Say to your
child, «I
'm really sorry this
is happening to you, and I want to help you feel
safe at school.
Often
children are at home alone after
school and
are instructed to stay in the house because it
's not
safe outside, so they watch TV or use the computer and snack, snack, snack on empty calorie food.
«We will continue to scrutinise action in this area and work with others to hold those responsible to account for any failure to ensure that all our
children are safe and can thrive
at school.
Nancy, a teacher
at Coleytown Elementary
School in Westport, Connecticut,
is helping the
children revisit their early efforts to build a
safe, caring, and joyful learning community.
At Stadia Sports, we believe it
's vital that
schools, parents, and
children are aware of the risks associated with playing rugby and that a
safe environment and equipment
is provided for pupils.
«While this may mean their
children never get a certified education,» Adelman says, «
at least parents feel the
school is part of their own community and they feel
safe sending their
children there.»
«Few educators or philosophers of education would argue that
schools» sole purpose
is to keep
children safe,» writes Sadowski, a faculty member in education
at Bard University.
The qualification has
been designed specifically for
schools, to help them improve the standards of e-safety amongst staff and young people, and follows a 2010 report2 by Ofsted that recommends that
schools should: • audit the training needs of all staff and provide training to improve their knowledge of and expertise in the
safe and appropriate use of new technologies • work closely with all families to help them ensure that their
children use new technologies safely and responsibly both
at home and
at school • provide an age - related, comprehensive curriculum for e-safety which enables pupils to become
safe and responsible users of new technologies.
All
schools should share the same ethos that every
child deserves to
be happy,
safe and successful
at school.
Featured on stand D260
at Bett 2018, educational not - for - profit the LGfL (London Grid for Learning) will
be updating
schools on its range of new initiatives to help
schools save money, keep
children safe online, tackle educational inequality and energise teaching and learning.
But it can also bring risks, which
is why we must do everything we can to help
children stay
safe online -
at school and
at home.»
Chris Hume, partnership manager
at GoSafe, said: «Our continued focus on 20mph limits around
schools is part of our commitment to
safer communities, and to protect the most vulnerable road users; our
children.
Lesley Hinds, City of Edinburgh City Council's transport convener, said: «The whole aim of
School Streets
was to create a
safer, more relaxed atmosphere around
schools, encouraging
children to walk and cycle and parents to leave their cars
at home.
For
schools, they have found that there can
be a number of benefits for lockdown facilities, not just in terms of emergency situations, but for providing additional protection for the
children and staff
at the
school, or using lockdown outside of hours in order to ensure that the building
is safe and on site assets
are protected around the clock.
To help all students feel
safe and supported
at school, to help every
child feel free to discover who they
are without judgment, and to promote a
school climate of respect and inclusivity, it
is important to do the following:
Former police sergeant Henry Platten has designed GoBubble to provide young people with a
safe alternative to Facebook following the news that increasing numbers of primary
school children are logging on to social media
at least once a day.