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Here's a tale that will make you think maybe home schooling wouldn't be so terrible after all: A fifth-grade teacher in Queens, New York is in trouble for having her students write holiday cards to her boyfriend—who happens to be in prison and has a record of being into kiddie porn. More »
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If you thought that God had never really given much thought to teacher's salaries, you'd be wrong. At least according to Shadrack McGill, a Republican state senator from Alabama. He spoke at a prayer breakfast recently where he passed along some very interesting wisdom from God regarding what teachers should be paid. He began this ridiculous conversation by speaking about politician's salaries, which, you might be surprised to learn, he thinks should be quite high. The reason—besides the fact that he is one? To prevent them from taking bribes. Well, it's nice to see that McGill has such a high opinion of his colleagues. He then leapt to talk about why he doesn't support a bill to increase teachers' wages: More »
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Remember when all a teacher had to do to be cool was roll up his sleeves and sit backwards on a chair? Those days are over. More »
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Forget trying to help this little old lady across the street: Bernice Bates, who's 91 years old, is probably more spry than you are. Guinness World Records has just awarded her the title of Oldest Yoga Teacher, and she teaches once a week at her retirement center in Florida. The great-grandmother may not actually be the oldest living yoga teacher—there could be an older yogi hiding in some remote location—but she's the oldest one to have filled out all the necessary Guinness paperwork, and that counts for a lot! More »
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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 their Christmas presents are purchased by their parents. (Special message to junior Jezebel readers: This lady was sorely mistaken. And in case you were wondering, Santa has a toy factory in China and he and your mom just have remarkably similar handwriting.) Eng is now calling each child's parents to apologize for making this an exceptionally uncomfortable holiday and planting seeds of doubt about the Easter Bunny and Tooth Fairy. More »
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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 that made it look like Killian's bra had been removed with the pull of a handkerchief. The committee chairman has apologized, and luckily the trick was only seen by about a dozen people who were at the meeting ... and whoever was watching the broadcast on cable TV (i.e. no one). More »
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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. More »
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When it turned out a Pennsylvania high-school English teacher was the author of erotic romance novels, some parents (predictably) freaked out. More »
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"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." More »
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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." More »
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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 included referring to students as "rude, lazy, disengaged whiners." More »
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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. More »
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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." More »
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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? More »
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• Some celebrities give big charitable donations, Forbes reports, but others give less than their foundations cost to run (we're looking at you, Justin Timberlake). • A new Australian study claims that women in menopause gain weight not because they eat more but because they exercise less due to age and lifestyle constraints. • A British man was sentenced to life in prison today for fathering 7 children with his daughters whom he abused over a 25-year period. • More »
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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 boy is to blame, saying, "I resent the term 'child.' You're baby-fying this kid. This kid is a Latino machismo teenager." In the clip above, Davis explains to Good Morning America how the boy was actually Peterson's pursuer, not her victim. (On a side note, Peterson's parents and ex-husband are fighting for custody of her daughter. She left the 8-year-old girl with her parents when she fled to Mexico.) More »
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