In an effort to highlight the people who are leading colleges and universities across the nation, we at Watch The Yard reached out to Middle Tennessee State University and did an interview with Jada K. Powell the 2022-2023 Student Government Association president. The position of SGA president is a highly respected role and there is […]
A graduate of North Carolina A&T State University, has been appointed the principal at Movement Middle School in Charlotte, North Carolina. Kenneth Gorham, 24, becomes the youngest person to become the school’s principal. “I’m 24 years old. I actually turned 25 next week,” he told WCNC Charlotte. “I was in my head absolutely about my […]
A North Kingstown, RI teacher is now being investigated after a few middle school boys felt uneasy about the way he was interacting with their female counterparts and took the initiative to do something about it. It began as early as sixth grade. The boys noticed behavior they weren’t comfortable with from the beginning. On […]
A Michigan man has been sentenced to prison time for allegedly shooting a 6-year-old child for being on his lawn with his siblings. Ryan Le-Nguyen plead no contest in March after discharging a firearm and causing injury to a 6-year-old who was playing on his yard. He was sentenced in April by 14 to 40 months to […]
Erin Lee said in the video that her daughter was invited to a Genders & Sexualities Alliance (GSA) club and was told to keep the conversations that are held during the meetings a secret. During an interview with a conservative magazine, The New American Magazine, Lee revealed that her daughter was told that if she […]
“One of the reasons we went this route is to get it out there that this is not gone. It is still very much alive, and it is still very much happening,” Burris said. Alyssa says the chants from the other students were loud enough that she couldn’t hear her own voice. The teen told reporters it […]
Last week a substitute teacher in a Dallas suburb was injured in an encounter with “several” students in a DeSoto middle school located in Desoto, Texas classroom according to FOX 4. This incident caused school officials to start its spring break immediately, canceling all classes for last Friday. Several videos and photos have gone viral […]
The Lakewood Middle School basketball team of 19 mostly Black girls was up against a mainly white team 30 miles away at Russell O. Brackman Middle School when the incident took place on Jan. 12. Inzelbuch says the first two quarters were played without any issue until the third quarter, when the students alleged the […]
Jim Finch has decided to drive down to Mayfield, Kentucky and cook food for the people dealing with the aftermath of the tornadoes that hit the state over the weekend according to Newsweek. As of now, the total number of people who died due to the tornadoes is unclear and some fear it could be […]
After an ProPublica’s investigation into the juvenile justice system in Rutherford County, Tennessee, Judge Donna Davenport has faced some consequences due to the investigation. The investigation exposed Davenport’s 2016 policy that all children charged with crimes be processed at the local detention center. After the article was published, several Tennessee’s lawmakers have called out the judge […]