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A high school teacher has been fired from her job after she let female students take topless photos for an art project. Emma Wright, 41, was working as an art teacher at Huxlow Science College in Northamptonshire, England, back in 2017 when the classroom photoshoot took place.

The York-Poquoson sheriff’s office has arrested a York County teacher on two counts of taking indecent liberties with a student. No photo description available. According to a news release from the sheriff’s office on Thursday, Kristen McAllister, a teacher at Tabb High School, was detained after the sheriff’s office received a report of an inappropriate relationship between a teacher and pupil. McAllister, 32, faces two felony counts of indecent liberties with a kid by a person in custody or supervisory connection, as well as two misdemeanor counts of contributing to a minor’s delinquency. Tabb High School and York County school...

A Pennsylvania high school music director who replaced a teacher who had been charged with sex crimes against students has been charged with having an inappropriate physical relationship with a student herself.

After an investigation of "inappropriate conversations" between a Renaissance Academy elementary teacher and her former students, the educator and school officials have mutually agreed to part ways.On Friday evening, Mark Ursic, executive director of Renaissance Academy, released the following statement: "Jenna Hall previously submitted her resignation for the 2022-2023 school year on April 19, 2022. Subsequent to the investigation earlier this week, we have mutually agreed to end our employment relationship for the current school year, effective immediately."

Some of America's most highly regarded teachers are speaking out against Florida's "Parental Rights in Education" bill, and a growing number of LGBTQ teachers and allies across the country are worried about the impact this and similar legislation could have on students [3-7 age].

On April 14, retired Missouri teacher Nedra Jeffress, of Independence, wrote a letter to state Rep. Chuck Basye, the Rocheport Republican who is pushing hardest to ban transgender girls from school sports. “I’m wondering if there is data supporting the need for bills regulating this in Missouri or if this (is) a solution in search of a problem,” Jeffress wrote. “As an educator who has worked at the middle school and high school level in Missouri, I know how hard it is for transgender students to be accepted by peers, parents, churches and some teachers. If they are able to...

A Manor Independent School District teacher was arrested Tuesday after the district said they [sic] were seen hitting a student “several times.”... The district said a student was trying to enter the building through a doorway, when a teacher stopped the student from coming in. The teacher tried to tell the student to use another door, but the student refused and pushed past the teacher.That’s when the teacher “was then observed striking the scholar several times,” the district said.

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A fourth grade teacher in from the McMinnville Elementary School in Oregon has been arrested for two counts of attempted rape of a child in Redmond, Washington. Andrew Bert Hammond, a 50-year-old male, was arrested during an undercover operation. Hammond has been charged with four counts of communication with a minor for immoral purposes, second-degree attempted rape of a child, and third-degree attempted rape of a child. He's being held on $100,000 bond at the King County Correctional Facility, according to local news. Police had created fake profiles on social media and dating apps that were location-based. Hammond was on...

Officials announced Monday the arrest of an Oregon elementary teacher “for communicating with minors for immoral purposes” and allegedly trying to rape a child. Washington’s Redmond Police said detectives performed an undercover operation with decoy profiles on social media and dating apps to make contact with and meet the suspect in the case. Redmond Detectives arrested an Oregon elementary teacher on Friday, March 25 for communicating with minors for immoral… Posted by Redmond WA Police on Monday, March 28, 2022 The operation initially began in October when Andrew Hammond, 50, was told he was chatting with a 14-year-old girl, and...

Pamela Ricard received a three-day suspension and reprimand for 'bullying by staff' after referring to a biologically female student who identified as male with the prefix “Ms.” despite the student never formally requesting to be addressed differently.FORT RILEY, Kansas (LifeSiteNews) – A math teacher in Kansas is taking Fort Riley Middle School to court for punishing her because she referred to a gender-dysphoric student by her actual sex despite the lack of an official school policy on “gender identity” designations at the time. The Daily Caller reported that Pamela Ricard alleges that in April 2021 she received a three-day suspension...

It was Read Across America week, and the second graders in the Hinds County School District in Mississippi were waiting for an administrator to read to them. The administrator had forgotten it was her turn, said Toby Price, the assistant principal at Gary Road Elementary School in Hinds County, who was in his office at the time. He decided to fill in. Mr. Price, 46, quickly grabbed a book — “I Need a New Butt!” by Dawn McMillan, one of his children’s favorites — and began reading it to the roughly 240 second graders over Zoom. Later that day, on...

A Chicago mother who the teachers' union claimed died when a COVID-positive student was sent home to quarantine as they rallied for more COVID protocols actually died of alcoholism, it emerged on Monday. Denisha Henry, the 32-year-old mother of an eighth-grade student at Jensen Elementary Scholastic Academy in the East Garfield Park district of Chicago, died on September 24.

A south Florida teacher was taken to the hospital last week after she was attacked by a 5-year-old student, leaving her "dazed" and "unresponsive," officials said Monday. The unidentified instructor was found by first responders “sitting on the ground against the wall" and "appearing to be in a faint state" at Pines Lakes Elementary School, about 15 miles southwest of downtown Fort Lauderdale, according to a heavily redacted Pembroke Pines Police Department incident report. The victim was "clearly weak and dazed," able to "blink and breathe regularly but at no point was able to vocally respond or show signs of...

The high wages of teachers in Boston, where nearly 3,000 are paid six-figure salaries, reflects the strength of their union and suggests that a district plagued by “chronic underperformance” may be more geared toward the adults running it than the children it serves, watchdogs say. A Herald analysis of payroll data found that 2,905 teachers earn more than $100,000 annually, compared to the average per capita income of $44,690 in Boston in 2019, the most recent year for which the U.S. Census Bureau has statistics. Those teachers earned six figures in a city where 18.9% of the population – about...

A Virginia substitute teacher has been suspended after expressing approval of Russian President Vladimir Putin's decision to invade Ukraine and urging students to read Russian propaganda outlets including Sputnik News. Arlington Public Schools suspended John Stanton, 65, who made the comments during an eighth-grade Spanish lesson on Friday at Swanson Middle School. Stanton told the Washington Post he offered an opposing viewpoint about Russia's barbaric invasion of Ukraine for the first 10 minutes of a 90-minute class while expressing approval of Putin's decision to invade.

A photograph came across my screen today that perfectly encapsulates what's wrong with modern, traditional education. (I use the word "traditional" as a contrast to Montessori or Waldorf schools.) In it, we see that a child gave a correct answer to an ambiguous question, only to be told his answer was wrong because the teacher was unable to see beyond the confines of her answer book. Things like this turn students into the kind of mindless drones who think as Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez does.Here's the photograph:If it doesn't come through clearly, what you see is that the child was given the...

A disgraced Louisiana teacher has pleaded guilty to "horrific crimes" against children and admitted to serving her students cupcakes that contained sperm from her ex-husband, who is awaiting his own trial on child sex crime charges, according to authorities. Cynthia Perkins, 36, agreed to plead guilty and testify against her ex, 44-year-old former Livingston Parish Sheriff’s Office SWAT member Dennis Perkins, who is also charged with dozens of child sex crimes, according to prosecutors. "She not only waived any right to appeal, and attempt to avoid conviction, but she also spared the victims from reliving her horrific crimes during this...

It seems like every single day we see a new example of government schools, particularly in Virginia, being run by people who are totally obsessed with exercising their power to force terrible Covid regulations that prevent kids from learning.This latest example is from a teachers' union boss in Fairfax, Virginia who is celebrating higher rates of Covid because it means that they can continue to keep kids masked:Her air quotes aside, she is still celebrating HIGHER Covid rates because it means that the teachers will be able to continue exercising their power to muzzle kids in schools.Most sane people would...

Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky and American Federation of Teachers (AFT) President Randi Weingarten both said Tuesday they do not support ending mask mandates for school children, amid a growing trend by states to end masking in schools. Weingarten said she would support the end of masks if there is no transmission in schools. “So, the real question becomes, how do we make sure that people can plan for it and what are the measures so that everybody knows, so it doesn’t feel like it’s based upon politics, it feels like it’s based upon...