June 21, 2018, Sun Prairie (WI) Courier: Marshall School District plans safety upgrades, awaits status of grant http://www.hngnews.com/waterloo_marshall/news/article_9b41fe74-9a06-5674-ab14-7e22221fb348.html To be proactive on school safety, the Marshall School District and the Village of Marshall Police Department worked together in June to examine the safety needs of the school, police Lt. Kristine Quam reported at the June 12 Village of Marshall board meeting. Officers Daniel Schuster and Quam walked through all four schools and made safety recommendations. The main purpose was for the school safety grant submission. The Marshall School District applied for the maximum of $80,000, which includes $20,000 for all four schools. The grant will provide $100 million for school safety projects that is available to all school districts through a Department of Justice grant application process. … “Marshall School District has done an amazing job being proactive for many years on the safety of the schools,” Quam said. Quam reported that one of the recommendations was numbering the doors to the classrooms, …for an amount of $2,600…. Marshall School District Business Director Bob Chady added that the district is working on updating and enhancing the use of security cameras …for a total of $34,000…. The biggest grant request is shatter resistant glass film application in the main entrances and for all other entrances into schools… for a total of $27,930. Also requested was additional key fob access …which totaled $15,000. … Chady said that the district will not be denied the grant as they are basically guaranteed at least $20,000 per school, an $80,000 total. …
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Childhood Lost
Children today are noticeably different from previous generations, and the proof is in the news coverage we see every day. This site shows you what’s happening in schools around the world. Children are increasingly disabled and chronically ill, and the education system has to accommodate them. Things we've long associated with autism, like sensory issues, repetitive behaviors, anxiety and lack of social skills, are now problems affecting mainstream students. Blame is predictably placed on bad parenting (otherwise known as trauma from home).
Addressing mental health needs is as important as academics for modern educators. This is an unrecognized disaster. The stories here are about children who can’t learn or behave like children have always been expected to. What childhood has become is a chilling portent for the future of mankind.
Anne Dachel, Media editor, Age of Autism
http://www.ageofautism.com/media/
(John Dachel, Tech. assist.)
What will happen in another 4 years? How can we go on like this? This is a national (and international) problem of monumental proportions. We have an entire new class of children who cannot be accommodated by the system: many are manifestly neurologically impaired. Meanwhile, the government and the medical profession sleep on regardless.
John Stone,
UK media editor, Age of Autism
The generation of American children born after 1990 are arguably the sickest generation in the history of our country.
Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
It seemed to me that with rising autism prevalence, you’d also see rising autism costs to society, and it turns out, the costs are catastrophic.
They calculated that in 2015 autism cost the United States $268 billion and they projected that if autism continues at its current rate, we’re looking at one trillion dollars a year in autism costs by 2025, so within five years.
Toby Rogers, PhD, Political economist
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