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Elementary School Teacher Shows 'Saw' to His Class, Says "This Will Be Your First Horror Movie"

Jacob Hall — Tue, 11 Jun 2013 19:02:52 +0000

We've all had that teacher at least once in our lives. You know the one. The oddball. The eccentric. The one whose bizarre worldview and teaching methods have a lasting (and not always positive) impact on his or her students. However, the award for the year's strangest teacher undoubtedly has to go to Jean-Baptiste Clément, a sixth grade math teacher who subjected his students to James Wan's horror film 'Saw.'

Teacher Says She's Dying So She Can Get Out of Work for an Entire Year

Drew Weisholtz — Fri, 31 May 2013 16:53:51 +0000

Ashley Barker lied so she could skip work. Now, she doesn’t have to worry about having a job to go to at all. Barker, a first-grade teacher at Laurel Elementary School in Florida’s Polk County, is under fire for telling her superiors she and her father were both dying, just so she could get out [...]

Angry Student Lecturing Teacher on How to Teach Goes Viral

Emerald Catron — Fri, 10 May 2013 12:30:39 +0000

This kid’s got big brass ones. Or maybe he was just fed up. Actually, we figure it probably requires a combination of both to pull off a stunt like this.This student at Duncanville High (on the outskirts of Dallas, Texas, in case you were wondering where such an accent comes from) was clearly sick of [...]

Second Grade Teacher Allegedly Taped Students' Mouths Shut

Donald Deane — Wed, 08 May 2013 12:56:17 +0000

Sure, kids can be a handful sometimes, but a second grade teacher in Colorado may have taken things too far when she allegedly taped the mouths of 28 students shut because they were being noisy.

Watch Miley Cyrus Surprise a Music Teacher with a New Piano [Video]

Jeff Giles — Wed, 01 May 2013 12:49:00 +0000

We hear a lot about how American schools continually need to battle for resources on behalf of their students, and few people would argue that we could do a better job of meeting those needs. That's where the Real Change Project comes in -- and with the help of an assortment of stars that includes Justin Bieber, Miley Cyrus, Pitbull, and Jason Mraz, they're helping make a difference.

Is It Okay For Teachers To Spank Our Children? [POLL]

Mark Richards — Wed, 10 Apr 2013 08:47:00 +0000

When I was in junior high school I was sent to the principle's office for a paddling. It still stings today. I don't remember what I did to deserve a whack on the butt but I do remember that I thought it was excessive punishment for kids. Now, a 63-year-old elementary school teacher in the San Antonio Texas has been arrested and charged with knowingly causing injury to a child, a third-degree felony.

Kindergarten Teacher Fired for Letting Students Taste Her Blood

Drew Weisholtz — Fri, 08 Mar 2013 15:29:56 +0000

It wasn’t your run-of-the-mill show and tell. A kindergarten teacher from the Norwegian town of Sola has been fired because she let kids touch and taste her blood that she brought to school. The woman had brought in a blood sample taken earlier in the day and poured it out onto a plate for kids. [...]

Eye-Opening Study Finds Teachers Do Not Want to Bring Guns to School

Drew Weisholtz — Thu, 28 Feb 2013 18:03:38 +0000

Keeping students and teachers safe has become a hot button issue in the US since the Sandy Hook shooting in December. Now, teachers are opening up about what they’d like to do to protect themselves in a School Improvement Network poll of nearly 11,000 educators from all 50 states. More than 72% claim they would [...]

Teenager Shocked After Catching Teacher on Video Stealing from Students' Backpacks

Drew Weisholtz — Wed, 27 Feb 2013 16:01:46 +0000

Sure, teachers may be underpaid, but there’s got to be a better way for them to make some extra money besides stealing. From their students. A sophomore at Linden High School, in Linden, California, caught her gym teacher taking money out of students’ backpacks and managed to capture it on video. Justine Betti said students [...]

Mean Teachers Tricked Their Students Into Thinking They Were Going to Disney World

Chris Chaberski — Mon, 25 Feb 2013 13:28:47 +0000

A pair of teachers (not pictured) at Roseland Public School in Ontario, Canada, pulled a mean prank on their students. They told the eighth-graders that their end-of-the-year school trip would be to Disney World. The next day, they announced that the trip would merely be to a bowling alley. Ha ha?

Teacher In Hot Water After Facebook Photo Surfaces of Students With Mouths Duct-Taped Shut

Jeremy Taylor — Thu, 24 Jan 2013 13:36:02 +0000

It’s a Facebook photo middle school math teacher Melissa Cairns wished she never posted. The snap, which has since been removed from her page, showed several of her students with duct tape over their mouth. ”Finally found a way to get them to be quiet!!!,” read the caption. It was meant to be a joke. What [...]

Teacher With Fear of Children Fighting Forced Retirement

Jeremy Taylor — Wed, 16 Jan 2013 13:50:26 +0000

Language teacher Maria C. Waltherr-Willard suffers from pedophobia, which means she is afraid of young children. When the 61-year-old is in the presence of the little tykes she experiences symptoms which include anxiety, chest pains and vomiting. Given her unusual affliction, her Cincinnati, Ohio, school district assigned her to high school, because older children don’t engender such extreme [...]

Teacher Owns Students in Dance Battle With Irish Jig

Donald Deane — Mon, 29 Oct 2012 12:15:39 +0000

It's been our experience that high school teachers generally frown upon pranks. But one teacher at Whitney Young High School in Chicago eagerly joined in when seniors staged an unauthorized dance battle. If only our teachers were this cool.

Autopsy Results Expected In Shooting Of Proctor Teacher

Kristine Bellino — Wed, 29 Aug 2012 14:04:13 +0000

Utica, NY (WIBX) - New York State Police say the physical examination is complete but the autopsy report is not yet finished in the shooting death of a Proctor High School teacher. 30-Year old Catherine Koestner was shot and killed in Old Forge this past weekend. There are still unanswered questions in the shooting. Police say [...]

Georgia Teachers Go Way Above and Beyond By the Call of Duty By Offering Free Tutoring This Summer [VIDEO]

Shauna Wright — Tue, 19 Jun 2012 13:01:50 +0000

Even after an $89 million budget cut forced the Gwinnett County school system in Georgia to cut 600 jobs, some teachers there are so dedicated that they’re now volunteering their time to tutor kids for free. Every Wednesday this summer between 8 a.m. and noon, teachers from the Benefield Elementary School in Lawrenceville, GA are [...]

Teachers Verbally Abusing Autistic Kid [VIDEO]

Don Deane — Fri, 27 Apr 2012 13:42:14 +0000

Confused by reports that his autistic son had suddenly become violent at school, New Jersey dad Stuart Chaifetz made the child wear a recording device in an attempt get to the bottom of things. Shockingly, he discovered that a teacher and a teacher’s aide were verbally abusing learning-disabled children at Horace Mann Elementary School in the town of Cherry Hill.

Mother Sues Teacher for Stealing Son's Lunch Money

Shauna Wright — Mon, 26 Mar 2012 10:22:56 +0000

When Baltimore mom Lynsai Green found out her second-grader had a negative balance with the school cafeteria, she was confused — until her son told her one of his teachers was routinely stealing his lunch money. In a lawsuit Green filed against teacher Marcelius Lockes, Gwynn Falls Elementary School, the Baltimore School Board and the [...]

Brave Teacher Rescues Toddler from Burning Car

Don Deane — Thu, 22 Mar 2012 20:05:48 +0000

As further proof that teachers don’t get paid nearly enough, a heroic elementary school teacher recently rescued a toddler from a SUV that had caught fire in the pickup lane at Cameron Ranch Elementary School in Carmichael, CA. video platformvideo managementvideo solutionsvideo player Second grade teacher Elaine Johnson was directing students after school dismissal on [...]

Are Teachers Overpaid or Underpaid? – Survey of the Day

Jeremy Taylor — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 14:43:49 +0000

Although it varies from state to state, the average salary of a public school teacher in the United States is about $50,000 a year. For comparison sake, the average full-time worker in any profession has a median personal income of about $39,000 a year. Are teachers getting the better end of the stick?

France In Need Of Male Teachers

Dave Wheeler — Wed, 05 Oct 2011 16:13:46 +0000

They may have French Fries, and the Eiffel Tower in France, but the one thing they don’t have is male teachers. Apparently there’s a huge shortage of male teachers and officials are worried that boy students will end up suffering. How I wonder? According to The Time, the idea is that boys don’t have enough [...]