This article was originally published by The Post and Courier. By Maura Turcotte mturcotte@postandcourier.com and Angela Wang Special to The Post and Courier Lisa Philbeck, a fifth grade teacher at B.D. Lee Elementary in Cherokee County, was in disbelief a few weeks ago when she pulled apart her students. They were fighting over water. Her class was walking to the school cafeteria for lunch when two excited students began squirting each other with water from their water bott

Christine Mason, Executive Director of the Center for Educational Improvement, Martha Staeheli, Director of the School Mental Health Program at the New England MHTTC, and Meghan Wenzel, CEI Senior Writer and Researcher Teen suicide has been a huge concern for a long time. Suicide is now the second leading cause of death for youth between the ages of 10-24 (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2022). Moreover, according to a representative survey of over 13,000 high sch