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Superintendent: district reports low counts of serious incidents, plans Parent Academy on youth phone use
Summary
The Rutherford superintendent told the school board the district’s year-end Student Safety Data System totals showed relatively few serious incidents and outlined plans for a parent-education program informed by Jonathan Haidt’s book The Anxious Generation; the board was also told the district will undergo the state QSAC review.
The Rutherford Board of Education heard a report from the superintendent on school openings, student-safety data and plans for parent education.
The superintendent said the district recorded small numbers of serious incidents in the reporting year under the state Student Safety Data System (SSDS): "six total incidents of some kind of a physical altercation, one suspension due to vandalism, 14 for substances and two for weapons," which he said involved pocket knives. He described the overall totals as "not alarming" given the district’s size and added that…
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