Author: Nelson Rosario

There is a heritage-listed sandstone house on Old Northern Road in Castle Hill, built around 1844, that most people drive past without a second thought. It is called Castle Hill House, and for the last several years it has served as a vocational campus for Redeemer Baptist School. The restoration was done largely by hand — by church congregation members, the school says, logging more than 120,000 volunteer hours. It’s an impressive number. It also raises questions that the financial reports sitting on the Australian Charities and Not-for-profits Commission’s database can’t quite answer on their own. Redeemer Baptist School has…

On June 22, three students entered the school in Tacloban City, Leyte, and failed to return home. It is said that two of their classmates, who were 14 and 15 years old, entered their classroom, raised their guns, and started shooting without saying anything. Later, about forty shell casings were found at the location. Three pupils lost their lives. Three were hit by bullets. In the frantic attempt to flee, four more people were hurt. It’s the kind of incident that is nearly impossible to comprehend, particularly in a nation where school shootings are, by most accounts, incredibly uncommon. Colonel…

It was a Monday morning, mid-session, at a government school with more than 1,500 enrolled students. Children were in their seats. Teachers were going about their routines. Then, somewhere around 9 a.m., gunshots broke through the ordinary noise of a school day at San Jose National High School in Tacloban City — and everything changed. Two students, aged 14 and 15, both Grade 9 learners, walked onto the campus carrying firearms. One had a 9mm pistol. The other carried a .38 caliber revolver. They entered a classroom and opened fire. When students scattered in panic, the two suspects reportedly chased…

A specific type of pressure is absent from all course catalogs. Stress related to financial aid is not the cause, though it does exist. Although first-year students are familiar with the feeling, it is not academic anxiety. The burden of being the first is something more subdued. The first member of your family to enter a university, take a seat in a lecture hall, and possibly earn a degree. Fundamentally, that is what it means to be a first-generation student. You bear the stigma and all that goes along with it if neither of your parents completed four years of…

The principal is almost always present when you enter a South African school before seven in the morning. not going over lesson plans. failing to put together a motivational assembly. Probably dealing with a roof leak in the classroom, a parent’s complaint from the previous evening, or a staffing shortage that no one had alerted them to. The list is already lengthy, and the day hasn’t even officially begun. In public discourse, school principals are frequently viewed as administrative figures who sign paperwork and uphold order. That image is lacking, and to be honest, it belittles the qualities that these…

The scene is familiar to anyone who has observed a middle school student attempting to use a phone to manage four different classroom apps, a school email account, and a Google Classroom stream. Tabs piling up. Notifications are blending together. Somehow, a class announcement from three weeks ago overshadowed an assignment that was due tomorrow. It has nothing to do with discipline. It’s a design issue. The Hapara Student Dashboard is worthwhile because of this. The Hapara Student Dashboard is essentially an online school planner designed to bring together the disparate elements of a student’s digital learning experience in one…

Being a college student who knows they need a professional website but can’t quite justify the expense can lead to a certain kind of frustration. A design school portfolio. A journalism course blog. A storefront for a handcrafted jewelry company that began as a hobby during quarantine and managed to survive. There is ambition. Less so is the budget. The Squarespace student discount is intended to bridge that exact gap, and it’s a more substantial offer than most people are aware. Verified students can currently receive 50% off the first full year of an annual website plan from Squarespace. Not…

Detectives didn’t wait for the school day to end on a Friday morning in Auburn, western Sydney. While classes were in session, they entered the Auburn campus of Amity College and arrested Matthew David Eagleton, a 54-year-old sitting teacher. When the details are revealed, it’s the kind of moment that shakes a community, first quietly and then loudly. Eagleton was a campus instructor for Year 2. young kids. Even though the police made it clear that none of his students were involved in the charges, that detail still carries a lot of weight. Detectives from the sex crimes squad confiscated…

Schools that genuinely address their own shortcomings have something noteworthy about them. Not through rebranding. Not by sending out comforting newsletters. However, by reviewing the data, acknowledging its findings, and taking the more difficult step of altering the way kids are taught. One of those institutions is Portside Christian College, which is tucked away in Adelaide’s northwest suburbs. The college is an independent, interdenominational, coeducational Christian institution that serves students in Early Learning through Year 12. Its lack of affiliation with any particular denomination gives it a seemingly intentional theological openness—faith as a foundation rather than a barrier. The school’s…

At San Jose National High School in Tacloban City, the morning of June 22 began like any other. Pupils filed into their classrooms. Instructors recorded attendance. Nobody anticipated that three teenagers would be dead in a matter of hours and that the 250,000-person city would be attempting to comprehend an unprecedented event. Two 14 and 15-year-old students entered a classroom and started shooting. No cautions. No words were spoken. Only gunfire. By the time the mayhem subsided, three students had died, three more had been shot, and four more had been hurt while trying to flee. From the scene, about…