It seems inconceivable: Educators calling cops on elementary school kids for typical child behavior. Temper tantrums. Fighting with other students. Stealing spare change and crayons.
But it happens.
A USA TODAY analysis of federal crime reports identified more than 2,600 arrests in schools involving kids ages 5 to 9 between 2000 and 2019. That’s an average of 130 children a year and surely a vast undercount. usatoday.com/in-depth/news/…
Our reporters analyzed 28 million arrest records from more than 8,000 law enforcement agencies that participated in the FBI’s reporting system over two decades. Reporters talked to criminologists, psychologists and attorneys to interpret the results. usatoday.com/in-depth/news/…
After skiing out in the first run of the slalom Wednesday, Mikaela Shiffrin has now failed to finish in back-to-back technical races. It is the first time Shiffrin has failed to do so since 2011, when she was 16 years old.
Following the slalom, Mikaela Shiffrin said on NBC she was still "processing" what happened. bit.ly/3uFHYZR
Still, Shiffrin has three medals from her first two Olympics, two of them gold, and is widely considered one of, if not the best, technical skiers of all time. bit.ly/3uFHYZR
Daniel Paz fled Honduras in 2018 with his wife and two children after gunmen tried to kill him for being politically active.
After crossing the U.S.-Mexico border near El Paso, Border Patrol agents separated him and his daughter, Angie, then 7 years old. They remained separated for 50 days until they were reunited.
Today, the family lives in Ohio. Three years later, Angie still experiences traumatic symptoms from the separation. She has nightmares where she loses her parents at a mall and bangs her bedroom wall in her sleep.