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ONTARIO - The mother of Anthony Soltero on Friday demanded that the De Anza Middle School assistant principal she claims threatened her son with jail time be kept away from children. Louise Corales dropped off a letter at the office of Ontario-Montclair School District Superintendent Sharon McGehee requesting that Assistant Principal Gene Bennett be removed or transferred from his position until an investigation is completed. She was joined by her attorneys and the Anthony's father, Jaime Soltero. "I want the vice principal transferred into a position where he's not around children. I definitely want him transferred during the investigation," Corales...

BREAKING NEWS: SHAW HEIGHTS PRINCIPAL SURRENDERS FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE April 6, 2006 Shaw Heights Middle School Ends Neutral Dress Code Westminster, CO: Due to the exemplary behavior of the students at Shaw Heights Middle School and the progress made throughout the week, as well as Attorney General John Suthers news release regarding the display of flags in schools, Myla Shepherd, Shaw Heights Middle School principal has announced that the neutral dress code will end effective Friday, April 7, 2006 at 8:00 a.m.

A physical education teacher at a San Carlos middle school is behind bars today, suspected of videotaping female students as they changed clothes, the San Carlos Police Department reported. San Bruno resident Neal Sato, 34, was arrested today after an approximately six-week-long investigation into the Central Middle School teacher's alleged improper behavior, the Police Department reported. Police first became aware of the situation after an eighth-grade student reported that she believed Sato, who also serves as the school's athletics director, had secretly been videotaping her while she changed clothes. After obtaining a search warrant, police detectives reportedly seized computers belonging...

BERKLEY, Mich. (AP) — A black parent and the NAACP are criticizing a middle school's choice to perform a song that they say glorifies slavery. The song, "Pick a Bale of Cotton," is on the folk music choir program Wednesday at predominantly white Anderson Middle School in the Berkley School District. The song's lyrics include, "Jump down, turn around, pick a bale of cotton. Gotta jump down, turn around, Oh Lordie, pick a bale a day." Greg Montgomery said he complained to school officials, and when he was dissatisfied with their response, decided to pull his 11-year-old daughter China from...

ROME, SEPT. 8, 2005 (Zenit.org).- As Labor Day passes and summer vacation ends, eighth-graders in the United States might be agonizing over what to wear the first day of school. In Italy, eighth-graders have a harder decision awaiting them -- what to do with the rest of their lives. Unlike the States, high schools are highly diversified in Italy. During the last year of middle school, Italian children have to decide which "type" of high school to attend. This decision sets those 13-year-old feet down a career track leading to higher education or vocational school. Schools designed to accelerate entry...

A teacher at Mountain View Middle School in Mendham Borough left his classroom in June as a man, and plans to return to school next month as a woman. Some parents and teachers have accepted teacher Kerri McCaffrey's decision to embrace his feminine identity and undergo gender reassignment surgery. A few others have concerns about whether middle school-age children should have to deal with such issues. McCaffrey said she can't imagine why she wouldn't come back to school. "I just want to be Kerri McCaffrey, a great teacher like I've always been," said the 41-year-old language arts teacher. "I'm a...

A 28-year-old former math teacher at a Passaic middle school was sentenced to one year in jail for having an intimate relationship with a teenage student. Maria C. Saco of Passaic pleaded guilty to endangering the welfare of a child and was sentenced Thursday to the Passaic County Jail. Saco was teaching remedial math during summer school in 2003 to seventh- and eighth-graders when she met the boy, then 14. The boy went on to high school, but Saco's attorney, Joseph Afflitto Sr., said the boy contacted her through e-mail. The two started a relationship that fall. Saco had even...

Back in 1995, Craig Hohenberger had an idea. A big idea. A 10-acres-big idea. So he spent the next 10 years working singlemindedly -- but nowhere near singlehandedly -- to make it happen. And today the Hilton Bialek Biological Sciences Habitat at Carmel Middle School has become a home to ever-growing populations of native plants and wildlife -- and a "classroom away from classrooms" for 550 middle school students, as well as hundreds of others in Carmel and throughout Monterey County. "It was somebody's dream," said middle school Principal Edmund Gross, referring to Hohenberger. "Somebody who had a passion about...

Zinc may be good for teenagers' brains, according to a paper presented last week at a meeting of the American Society of Nutritional Sciences. In a study led by James Penland of the Agricultural Research Service of the Department of Agriculture, 209 seventh-graders were randomly assigned to one of three groups. The first group received 4 ounces of fruit juice a day containing 20 milligrams of zinc, the second drank the same juice with 10 milligrams of zinc, and the third drank the juice alone with no zinc added. At the beginning and end of the 12-week study, students were...

National Pro-Life T-Shirt Day is Coming by Wendy Cloyd, editorial coordinator On April 26, youth across the nation will boldly declare their stand for the preborn by wearing pro-life t-shirts. Will you join them?The American Life League (ALL) will sponsor its third annual National Pro-Life T-Shirt Day on April 26, with thousands of youth across America sporting a vital message: Abortion kills kids.The goal of the event is to save babies and their mothers from the horror of abortion and by doing so, to glorify God.According to Erik Whittington, director of American Life League's youth outreach, recent Gallup polls show...

SOUTH HADLEY - The new dress code at Michael E. Smith Middle School that seeks to limit the amount of skin pupils may bare in class had its genesis last year after some female students fell out of their tops. "We had girls fall out of their shirts in the sixth grade," principal Melodie L. Goodwin said during a recent interview at the school about the code, which takes effect March 21. Some male teachers expressed concern about the amount of flesh being displayed, and Goodwin started gathering input to develop a new dress code "They were a little uncomfortable...

Students at a Palo Alto middle school learned more than school officials ever expected when a recent "career day" speaker extolled the merits of stripping and expounded on the financial benefits of a larger bust. The hubbub began Tuesday at Jane Lathrop Stanford Middle School's third annual career day when a student asked Foster City salesman William Fried to explain why he listed "exotic dancer" and "stripper" on a handout of potential careers. Fried, who spoke to about 45 eighth-grade students during two separate 55-minute sessions, spent about a minute explaining that the profession is viable and potentially lucrative for...

PLEASANTVILLE, N.J. (AP) - A middle school basketball coach who presented a "Crybaby Award" trophy to a 13-year-old player has been fired from his coaching job, and the board of education wants him out entirely, officials said Wednesday. James Guillen, 24, must make a public apology, attend sensitivity training and hold a second banquet to give out a proper award, School Superintendent Edwin Coyle said. But he said he opposed firing him as a teacher. The boy's father, Terrence Philo Sr., said that just before the April 24 banquet, Guillen called the boy and told him he would be getting...

Eighth-grader chastised for taking literal stand for Jesus By MELISSA TRESNER The preacher said to take a stand for Jesus, and that's just what Cory Bean did. The Judson Middle School eighth-grader climbed onto a table Thursday in the crowded cafeteria and shouted, "I love Jesus!" In front of God and his fellow classmates, Cory, 14, let it be known that he is a Christian. After a few seconds of shocked silence, Cory said the other students started clapping and chanting, "We love Jesus. We love Jesus." Many in the cafeteria had attended the same worship service as Cory on...

SAN DIMAS, Calif. -- Several parents recently have been wondering how come their children know so much about the cost of illegal drugs. Blame it on a classroom project. Students at Lone Hill Middle School were assigned imaginary careers and salaries and told to figure out how much various drug habits would cost them. "Samantha came home Wednesday and told us she's addicted to marijuana and has a $300 drug habit," said one parent, Diana Mitchell. "My husband and I were both stunned." Assistant Superintendent Mitch Hovey said the teacher of the seventh-grade math class was pushing an anti-drug message...

OCALA -- Raymond Andrews had no idea that the bracelets his sixth-grade daughter purchased this summer were related to sex. However, after speaking to other parents, he learned this new fad among middle school students was something he didn't want his kids involved with. His daughter promised to do away with the bracelets, but not before asking some pretty uncomfortable questions. "That gets me concerned," said Andrews, whose children attend Belleview Middle School. "If they need to ban these jelly bracelets, they need to ban them." A new trend, which has some parents and school officials concerned and may very...

The 34-year-old principal of a local middle school collapsed and died Saturday during a game of flag football. Roger Slagle, principal of Sellman Middle School in Madeira, died from an undiagnosed heart problem, WLWT Eyewitness News 5 reported. Slagle worked in the district for nine years. He is survived by his wife and two daughters, ages 5 and 7. Slagle's wife is expecting the couple's third child in April, WLWT reported. Students at Sellman spent Sunday writing farewell messages and leaving flowers on the school's steps. "Everybody was crying because he was always there for us," student Christy Spink said....

A head teacher has angered parents by asking them to stop their daughters from wearing thongs to school.Anna Roxburgh, the head of Hamp Junior High School in Bridge Water, Somerset made the plea to parents of 6th Grade Girls, ages 10-11.In a letter she said she had no objection to thongs personally.But she was concerned about the girl possible embarassment while changing for Physical Education Class, falling over in the playground or doing handstands. Hamp Junior High is a mixed -sexes school with 270 puplis. One mother said the letter was 'unbeliveable.' She added: 'Schools lay down enough rules without...

(West Haven-WTNH, Apr. 30, 2003 Updated 3:55 PM) _ A middle school student is facing criminal charges and may be expelled from school after witnesses say they saw him waving a weapon at a school bus stop. The unidentified 15-year-old boy was found carrying a BB gun that resembles a .45 caliber handgun. The teen was charged with carrying a weapon and breach of peace. The boy's grandmother says the boy was walking to the bus stop with his girlfriend at the time. She says he should have known better, that weapons are not allowed in the house. The boy's...

Just got off the phone with my 6th grade, 12 yr old daughter "B__"'s dad. Seems at school lunch Monday, she sat down at the table with her usual group of friends and one of them said "Why is B__ here?" My daughter B__ said "because I have friends here?", at which point they all got up and moved to another table, telling her she wasn't welcome in "the group" anymore. She didn't tell me or her father this until last night at dinner when he took her out just the two of them, breaking into tears three times hysterically....