Last week during a geography lesson at George W. Miller Elementary School in Nanuet, NY, children in Leatrice Ann Eng's class told her that they know about the North Pole because that's where Santa Claus lives. Deciding that it was high time the second-graders faced reality, Eng informed them that Santa isn't real and…
A school committee chairman in Abington, Massachusetts — let's just call him Michael Scott — likes to open meetings with a magic trick, but now he's in trouble for a mildly risqué prank. Without consulting them beforehand, he had school committee member Ellen Killian and teacher Steven Shannon participate in trick…
Resourceful teacher Marta Rivera Alanis calmed down her kindergartners by singing a song from Barney and Friends as a shootout raged in their city of Monterrey, Mexico. No one at the school was harmed in the shootout, and this is one of the only uses of a Barney song that we can actually approve of.
When it turned out a Pennsylvania high-school English teacher was the author of erotic romance novels, some parents (predictably) freaked out.
"A Roane County kindergarten teacher who reportedly told students to encircle a classmate, call him a pig and make pig noises because the boy is messy, received a one-day unpaid suspension and had a letter of reprimand placed in her file."
34-year-old Brooklyn high school teacher Sabrina Milo was held Saturday on $100,000 bail after prosecutors revealed she had threatened a machine-gun rampage that would be like "Columbine all over again."
Blogs Natalie Munroe, the teacher who was suspended after her personal venting came to light, "While I never in a million years would have guessed that this many people would ever see my words, and I didn't even intend them to, I stand by what I wrote and I think it's good that people are aware now." What she wrote…
A Welsh teacher is accused of an inappropriate relationship with her female students, after she gave them presents, texted them, and took a shower with them.
High Society has offered Melissa Petro, the former prostitute recently removed from her Bronx teaching job, $60,000 to pose nude. They claim it's a statement against Mayor Bloomberg: "We thought he really undressed her by taking away her job."
An elementary school teacher has been reassigned for publicly revealing her past as a stripper and prostitute. Does this confirm her claim that society is afraid of sex workers?
Kelsey Peterson, a 26-year-old 6th grade math teacher, plead guilty yesterday to having a sexual relationship with her 12-year-old student, Fernando Rodriguez, and fleeing with the boy to Mexico to evade the police. This morning, Peterson's lawyer, James Martin Davis, argued in an interview with Star Jones that the…
