A number of middle school students from Matoaca Middle School in Chesterfield County rushed home recently to tell their parents of a reported “inappropriate comment” their teacher made regarding school safety and a threat of gun violence. The uncommon threats regarding “killing all the students” outraged parents causing the abrupt removal of the male teacher […]
Teachers need to be more careful than ever these days. One instructor at Balderas Elementary in Fresno, Calif., learned this lesson first-hand as three fifth grade students were expelled Saturday for attempting to poison their teacher. According to Fresno TV station CBS47, two boys and one girl attempted to feed their teacher rat poison in […]
A Brooklyn female school teacher was charged with raping a male student and plying him with drugs and alcohol, police said Wednesday. Sixth-grade humanities teacher Claudia Tillery, 42, was arrested at her three-bedroom home about 5:30 p.m. Tuesday. She lives with her teenage daughter and young son, according to the building superintendent. Tillery was charged […]
A New Hampshire high school student used a nipple clamp to zap himself with an electrical shock and may have “permanent brain damage” and will now sue. It happened at school and he blames the teacher, and claims the school should warn of the dangers of electricity and nipple clamps. Kyle Dubois is the student […]
How would the nation’s school system be different if teachers were paid like engineers? Secretary of Education Arne Duncan proposed last month that a significant boost in teacher salaries could transform public schools for the better by luring the country’s brightest college graduates into the profession. Teachers should be paid a starting salary of $60,000, […]
Richmond area school systems are reviewing ways to add guidelines for social media to their policies manuals, according to the Associated Press. Communicating via Facebook status updates and Twitter feeds is as common today as email was a generation ago, but none of the Richmond area’s four largest school systems has a specific policy outlining […]
Oprah Winfrey is back in the USA after spending time with her “girls” at the school she opened in South Africa, but don’t fear, ladies, Miss O will be returning soon in the role of teacher. “They were all stressed for tests, but doing fine,” Oprah emailed fans about her students. “No major crisis this […]
At least 178 teachers and principals in Atlanta Public Schools cheated to raise student scores on high-stakes standardized tests, according to a report from the Georgia Bureau of Investigation. Award-winning gains by Atlanta students were based on widespread cheating by 178 named teachers and principals, said Georgia Gov. Nathan Deal on Tuesday. His office released […]
