Something as simple as teachers giving kids extra time in class to work on homework often turns into scrolling through Instagram, TikTok or replying to Snapchats. The addictive nature of cellphones affects all students, she said. She said such a new policy “takes a lot of pressure off of the teachers, and that’s just one battle that they don’t have to fight every day.”īranum pointed out that banning cellphones is not a “good kid versus bad kid” issue. Some students hide their phone behind Chromebook screens, so teachers cannot tell if students are taking notes or texting with friends. Berkner High School and STEM Academy Lake Highlands High School Memorial Park Academy Pearce High School Richardson High School Christa McAuliffe Learning Center. It has become almost impossible for teachers to stop students from using their phones in class, said Kristy Cage, principal at LV Berkner High School. While RISD’s current cellphone policy, in place since 2012, already prohibited students using the devices in classrooms without permission, use during the school day was still a “pervasive issue,” said Matthew Gibbins, assistant superintendent at RISD. Issues caused by cells add to teachers’ wear-down, Choat added. The district has not verified those statements, only saying in their statement to parents the guns were not on campus and praising the person who called 911.“Almost 90% of the discipline issues that we’ve dealt with last year started with a cellphone,” said Chris Choat, principal at Richardson High School. Two parents who were at the school Wednesday said the school district had an issue with the student earlier this school year. The student who was arrested is under the age of 17, so his name will not be released. I don’t want her to feel uncomfortable, so we will see what happens.' 'It’s going to be tough because that’s a safe place, a school. Her age, trying to figure out like the process of trying to have this conversation,' he said. 'I am going to talk to her today and let her know what happened, but its 19 kids, man.

With multiple children and teachers being killed hundreds of miles to our south, the conversation of school shootings is once again in the spotlight.įor Namasaka, he's struggling to come up with the words to explain what’s going on to his young children. Due to substantial storm damage, power outages and unsafe conditions, all RISD schools will be closed on Monday, October 21. Police charged the boy with unlawful carrying weapons in a weapon-free school zone. The high school and nearby elementary school were put on lockdown. I have a 5-year-old I picked up from Pre-K, I’m speechless,' Namasaka said.įOX 4 has learned Richardson police had contact with the juvenile in recent months, but sources did not have any details on the nature of that interaction with officers. Officers also found a replica AR-15 style Orbeez rifle. Police said the gun found in the car appeared to be an AK-47 style pistol. Investigators said the student did not have a weapon with him in the school, but said that a loaded firearm was found in the boy's car, which was parked across an intersection from the campus.įOX 4 cameras were there when a Volkswagen Jetta in the parking lot where police were investigating was towed from the scene. 'I heard the sirens from home and everything because I am close by,' Namasaka recalled. 19.1 of students were enrolled in bilingual and English language learning programs. 56.4 of students were considered at risk of dropping out of school. As of the 2021-2022 school year, it had 2,393 students.

The police have been alerted and are prepared to deal with any assailant who intends to kill people in schools. Berkner High School is a high school in Richardson, TX, in the Richardson ISD school district. Within minutes, police swarmed the campus, identified the underage student, and took him into custody. By Samuel Sasu Berkner High School and Springridge Elementary are on lockdown After Ramos, a young teenager went on a rampage to kill 21 individuals including two teachers and 19 kids in Texas.

Richardson police said Wednesday morning, just before 11 a.m., a 9-1-1 call came in saying a male was walking towards Berkner High School while holding what appeared to be a rifle. READ MORE: Texas school shooting: 19 children, 2 adults killed before gunman shot A day after the deadly mass school shooting in Uvalde, parents, students, and educators in Richardson had a scare of their own.

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