I don't think it's that bad at all. I really don't know what goes on during the school day, but when I go to the high school for a game I'm always treated by the students, staff and administrators with tons of respect.
Crazyiness like that happen at every school, not just Gary or Michigan City, La Porte's got the Ashcraft thing, in Valpo they're wacking each other with a machete and teachers coming in drunk...Portage they're doing god knows what on the school bus...and these are all the "model district" schools that the lady talked about wanting to mirror Michigan City after and follow their lead...
I don't think we got it so bad.
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Student uses machete, knife to slash classmates at Indiana school
VALPARAISO, Ind. (AP) — A student carrying a machete and another knife slashed five classmates Wednesday morning as they watched a Spanish class video, authorities said.
Photos Eight Valparaiso High School students were taken to the hospital, including the accused attacker, a 15-year-old freshman, Police Chief Michael Brickner said. All but one of those injured were released by Wednesday afternoon, he said. Five suffered cuts and the others complained of pain from other injuries, authorities said.
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Students leave Valparaiaso (Ind.) High School with an unidentified woman Wednesday after a student carrying a machete and another knife slashed five classmates as they watched a Spanish class video, authorities said.
Authorities did not release any information about a possible motive for the attack, which happened as classes were starting at the school some 20 miles southeast of Gary.
Brickner said that before carrying out the attack, the student asked his teacher for permission to close the classroom door. He shut the door and then started swinging the weapons at his classmates, the police chief said.
"Students began to flee from the classroom, and he fled from the classroom and was tackled to the floor by school faculty members," he said.
Students described a chaotic struggle in a hallway and said they saw blood on the floor.
"The kid, after he stabbed them, he ran out of the room and a bunch of teachers tackled him," sophomore Clark Hogan said. "I saw the lady kick the knife down the hallway. She kicked it against the wall."
Brickner said one of the knives was a machete and the other was a serrated knife. The youth accused in the attack remained in custody.
School Superintendent Michael Benway said the school does not have metal detectors but that school staffers and volunteers monitor the two doors through which the school's 2,000 students enter the building.
"We're not sure exactly how he got them into school," Brickner said.
The boy is an A-B student who started in the Valparaiso school system this year, Brickner said. "I think it's accurate to say that when the teachers learned who this student was, they were very surprised," he said.
The uninjured students were allowed to leave school about 31/2 hours after the attack. Until then, they said, they were kept locked in their classrooms.
"The teachers wouldn't tell us what was going on," said Danielle Boer. "We were scared."
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Police: Teacher drunk in the classroom
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Police: Teacher drunk in the classroom .
..VALPARAISO | A first-grade teacher at Cooks Corners Elementary School was arrested at the school Thursday morning on a charge of public intoxication.
Sharon Duerring, 49, was intoxicated in the classroom and was found with two cans of beer in her purse, said Valparaiso police spokesman Sgt. Michael Grennes.
Her blood alcohol concentration was 0.20, which is more than twice the legal limit of 0.08, police said.
Police were called to Cooks Corners at 10:30 a.m. after school officials learned of Duerring's intoxicated state, Grennes said.
School Principal Susan Cartwright did not return a telephone call Thursday and Superintendent Michael Benway declined comment, saying the case is a personnel matter that has been turned over to police.
Duerring was taken from school to jail, where she was booked, police said. School keys were taken from her and she was told not to return to the building at 358 Bullseye Lake Road, police said.
Duerring's arrest comes just two days after Cooks Corners was named a 2007 Blue Ribbon School by the U.S. Department of Education based on its standing among the top 10 percent in passing rates on the ISTEP.
Duerring was among the teachers celebrating the news during a special ceremony at the school.
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Three Portage High School boys used threats and fear to take over the school bus they rode and then spent much of the school year sexually touching girls, using aerosol cans to make blowtorches and doing other horrible acts, police said.
The “pattern of unspeakable depravity” finally ended when a girl came forward after one of the boys tried to push her face into the exposed genitals of another of the boys, said Portage police Cpl. Troy Williams, school resource officer. An investigation showed that girl and two other girls reported the boys touched their breasts on prior occasions.”