Posts Tagged ‘ Teachers ’

Students at an Australian school were asked to plan a terrorist attack “to kill the MOST innocent civilians in order to get your message across” as part of a class assignment, Australian Associated Press (AAP) reported Wednesday. The society and environment teacher at Kalgoorlie-Boulder Community High School in Western Australia asked Year 10 students...
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Even teachers play hooky to work on their tans. More than a dozen Department of Education employees were busted in the past two years for faking illnesses to take paid vacations, records show. Two newlywed teachers jetted to Italy for a honeymoon. Another couple flew to sunny Aruba for a romantic getaway. And a...
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A Glendale teacher says that he was saddened by the death of one of his students in a school drowning but that he is not to blame for the teen’s death. Tim McKee, a nine-year physical-education teacher at Ironwood High School, said Peoria Unified School District officials are trying to say he is responsible...
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A Freeland High School student testified Thursday that he decided to “tell the truth” about teacher Marcie L. Rousseau having sex with him after coming to believe she was having sex with “everyone else,” including Freeland High assistant principal J. Barry Weldon Jr. Rousseau “was telling me it’s going to be OK, that she...
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An untenured Brooklyn, N.Y., high school teacher catapulted herself down a school stairwell in a wacky attempt to avoid a classroom observation by her supervisor, the New York Post reported Tuesday. Staffers at the high school told investigators that first-year teacher Ilene Feldman was so petrified about a scheduled classroom observation — coming in...
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Police in central Pennsylvania say a middle school teacher lied for years about having an inoperable brain tumor. Fifty-one-year-old Leslie Herneisey (her-NY-zee) of Middletown is accused of faking documents to take sick leave. She faces 12 counts of forgery. Police say Herneisey missed work at Middletown Middle School over the years for treatment of...
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A teacher in Australia is claiming half a million pounds in compensation because she says she permanently damaged her larynx yelling at rowdy children. Her voice was damaged, she says, during her attempts to shout over the noise in her classroom as she tried to control the pupils, aged around 11. The claim by...
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Greg Stewart went from mentor to inmate for reasons he still can’t explain. The once-admired London elementary school teacher’s spectacular fall ended with the short walk across a courtroom Friday into custody. Before sentencing Stewart to six months in jail for sexually assaulting a 14-year old female pupil, the judge said the former Orchard...
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Shannon Young, a former Kansas teacher and volleyball coach, is charged with having sex with a 17-year-old student. The 36-year-old was arrested Tuesday morning and charged with three counts of unlawful sexual relations. Leavenworth County prosecutors allege Young had consensual sexual intercourse with one of her students between August 2009 and June 2010. cbsnews.com
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A former high school teacher in Freeland, Michigan, has been arraigned in two counties on 29 counts of sexual misconduct with an underage student, a Midland County prosecutor said Wednesday. Marcie Rousseau, a 33-year-old married mother of two, is accused of having sex with a then-16-year-old student from May 2009 to February, according to...
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