In this video of Jackie Evancho singing the aria ‘O Mio Babbino Cara’ on Americas Got Talent the 10 year old got a standing ovation and may have entered the ranks of Susan Boyle.
The video of Jackie Evancho can be deceptive – you are so sure that this voice cannot be coming from a ten year old who began singing after she saw a performance of Phantom of the Opera. … Continue Reading
David Benke – A Colorado middle school teacher named David Benke tackled a gunman in the midst of shooting several middle school students as school let out.
Dr. David Benke, a math teacher, tackled a deranged man who had already shot two middle school students in the parking lot of Deer Creek Middle School in Littleton, Colorado.
Benke confronted the 32-year-old gunman, Bruco Strongeagle Eastwood, after hearing what sounded like firecrackers going off as students left school for the day.
He tackled the gunman as Eastwood was pulling on his bolt-action rifle to reload for another shot and then pinned him to the ground with the help of another teacher.
His heroic act stopped what could have been a much more violent encounter in a city all too familiar with tragic school shootings as the Columbine school shootings happened only three miles away roughly eleven years ago.
“Unfortunately he got another round off before I could grab him,” Benke told reporters. “He figured out that he wasn’t going to be able to get another round chambered before I got to him so he dropped the gun and then we were kind of struggling around trying to get him subdued.”
The two students survived Tuesday’s school shooting, but one student remains hospitalized.
The victims – students Reagan Webber and Matt Thieu – were both treated at Littleton Adventist Hospital, where spokeswoman Christine Alexander said Webber was treated and released to her home. Matt Thieu was transferred to The Children’s Hospital, where he was listed in critical condition.
Benke told a TV station that he took part in drills after Columbine and recalled thinking that if the same thing happened, “I hope that I could go after him.”
Denver station KUSA-TV reported that the gunman, Bruco Strongeagle Eastwood, attended Deer Creek Middle School in the early 1990s.
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School Spies On Students With Webcams – A Philadelphia school district gave out laptops to students, then used the webcams attached to covertly spy on them.
According to a class-action lawsuit, the school system spied on the students in school and at home via the laptop’s webcams which could be activated remotely at any time by teachers or administrators.
Neither the students nor their parents were told about the remote webcam activation, which could see anything happening within range of the laptops including the student’s bedrooms.
Te case, Blake J. Robbins v. Lower Merion School District, was filed after one of the school’s vice principals disciplined Robbins’ son for “improper behavior in his home,” using a photo taken from the camera as evidence, according to the filing.
The laptops were issued to 1,800 students at three high schools in the district, each with a built-in webcam that, according to the lawsuit, administrators can activate remotely and covertly.
The suit is a class action, brought on behalf of all the students and their parents.
They’re seeking damages for invasion of privacy, theft of private information, and unlawful interception and access of electronic information.
