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High school grad Chelsey Ramer is learning the hard way that standing up for what you believe isn’t always an easy path to take. The 17-year old high school student at Escambia Academy High School in Atmore, Alabama was denied her diploma and given a $1000 school fine for...
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A high-end British school’s headmaster (principal) says he’s all for bringing in porn stars as guest speakers for students in his school. Mark Slater is the headmaster for the historical and academically acclaimed educational institution The Leys in Cambridge. He feels that with the onslaught of pornography students can...
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The young man in the video is one Jeff Bliss of Duncanville High School, Texas. Not exactly weird news – but it is on YouTube, it is presently viral and I am a teacher… so there is a tacit connection and besides, it caught my interest. The camera work...
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Parents and students are fuming mad in in Readington Township, New Jersey and it’s all thanks to a newly instituted ban at Readington Middle School… a ban against strapless gowns at the schools upcoming formal dinner and dance. The school principal, Sharon Moffat, has decided that only “dresses with...
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A teacher in Sola, Norway has been fired after bringing in a vial of her own blood and letting students touch it and taste it. The students were in kindergarten and between the ages of 3 – 6. (Now, for the collective cry of WTF??? Gross.) No reason is...
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It’s an award winning program in Canadian elementary schools that is teaching students how to be more empathetic and it uses babies as teachers. Called Roots of Empathy, grade 6 students get a half-hour lesson once a month with an infant. Throughout the year the baby and mom visit...
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Most parents only want what’s best for their kids, and will do just about anything, within reason hopefully, to help them succeed. But this mother from Pennsylvania went above and beyond what’s reasonable in order to help her kids educational standing, and she now faces six felony counts because...
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An English high school teacher was dismissed after his students discovered that he was earning extra money as a stripper. Benedict Garrett’s other occupation was discovered after some of his students stumbled upon a website advertising the services of one Johnny Anglais. It was later revealed that, in addition...
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When it comes to inventive teachers, one could argue that don’t come much craftier than Brookline, Massachusetts high school science teacher Ron Dantowitz. He prepared a mock scenario for his three best students, James Breitmeyer, Brigitte Berman, and Yiannis Karavas in which they had to capture a spacecraft as...
It’s an award winning program in Canadian elementary schools that is teaching students how to be more empathetic and it uses babies as teachers. Called Roots of Empathy, grade 6 students get a half-hour lesson once a month with an infant. Throughout the year the baby and mom visit...
Most parents only want what’s best for their kids, and will do just about anything, within reason hopefully, to help them succeed. But this mother from Pennsylvania went above and beyond what’s reasonable in order to help her kids educational standing, and she now faces six felony counts because...