Free Republic

ASHBURN, Va. (DC News Now) — The Loudoun County Sheriff’s Office (LCSO) said a substitute teacher was arrested for indecent exposure outside Stone Hill Middle School Monday morning. LCSO said deputies responded to the school in the 22000 block of Carter Meadow Terrace in Ashburn just before 10:45 a.m. It had been reported that a man was engaging in a sexual act while alone inside a parked car. Man arrested for sexual assault inside Target in Reston, police say The car was about 30 feet from the school’s perimeter fence and 200 feet from the rear entrance, LCSO noted. Wade...

An Ohio substitute teacher was busted for allegedly offering a high school student $2,000 to kill her estranged husband in a bizarre murder-for-hire plot – that was foiled by the teen’s mother. Stephanie Demetrius, 44, was arrested Wednesday on first-degree conspiracy after the student’s mom discovered texts between her son and the sub at Academy for Urban Scholars High School discussing the lethal plan and contacted the police, according to court documents obtained by WSYX. “This particular teacher was attempting to groom this young person into committing murder,” Sgt. James Fuqua, with the Columbus Division of Police, told the outlet....

A beloved Arizona yoga teacher who vanished after he set out for a would-be romantic meetup with a blind date last month has been found dead. The body of Marcus Freiberger, 45, was discovered at a rock quarry in Phoenix, about 6 miles from Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport, on March 19 — nearly one month after the scheduled date, AZ Family reported, citing the Phoenix Police Department. His sister, Tina Hall, broke the news of her brother’s death on Tuesday in a heart-wrenching Facebook post. “It is with a heavy heart that I share the tragic news that Marcus...

Michael Dickerson, who was a social studies teacher at Niskayuna Public High School, has now put in his resignation. But instead of just discussing his political activism, he made an admission that stunned those in attendance. He admitted to the 2017 incident where he said he inappropriately touched two adult women, who were once students at Catholic Central School, where he was teaching at the time.

Public education is facing a crisis as mass teacher layoffs sweep across the country. Thousands of educators are losing their jobs, and the consequences are already being felt in schools and communities. This isn’t just about numbers on a budget sheet. These are real teachers, real students, and real families being affected by decisions that will reshape the future of education in America. In Massachusetts, the situation is especially severe. The Department of Education is slashing nearly 50% of its workforce, eliminating over 1,300 positions. The official reasoning? Cost-cutting and streamlining operations. But critics warn that these cuts will hit...

The U.S. Department of Education announced Monday it cut over $600 million in grants spent on training teachers in “social justice activism,” critical race theory, and diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) ideology. The grants were used to fund institutions and nonprofits involved in training teachers on concepts like “anti-racism” and claims about white privilege and white supremacy. The grants also helped fund discriminatory staff recruiting strategies that targeted candidates based on their race. “It’s hard to overstate how radical these teacher trainings are — we are talking about forcing teachers to talk about their race at work, asking educators to...

The Secret Service is investigating after a New Jersey teacher allegedly threatened President Trump on social media. Fred Wilson, a special education and social studies teacher at Egg Harbor Township High School, allegedly wrote, “I think we are at the moment where assassination is at least a talking point,” on Facebook, according to the Secret Service and reports. The post first came under fire after a screenshot of his account was shared on the Libs of TikTok X account. “The U.S. Secret Service is aware of the incident involving comments made online by a teacher in the Egg Harbor Township,...

It was a horrific murder case that seemed really cut and dry—it was also a true crime story that made the rounds on TV in the mid-2000s. But this one came with a really bizarre twist. Instead of ruling the brutal stabbing death of Ellen Greenberg—a teacher stabbed twenty grisly times—as a homicide, officials called it a suicide. ... And one of the top officials who signed off on this mind-boggling suicide decision was none other than Josh Shapiro, Pennsylvania’s prosecutor at the time and the state’s current Dem governor. What was he thinking back then? Was he just another...

A Brevard County principal and third-grade teacher were arrested after hosting a house party where over 100 juveniles, some drinking alcohol, attended. Police found an intoxicated child needing medical treatment and arrested a juvenile driver for DUI near the scene. Both educators face multiple charges, including child neglect, and have been placed on administrative leave by the school district. COCOA BEACH, Fla. - The principal of a Brevard County elementary school and a third-grade teacher have been arrested, facing multiple charges stemming from an open house party where more than 100 kids attended, some of whom consumed alcohol, police say....

The bullying of Kelaia Turner was so bad that, at one point, even her glamorous teacher allegedly joined in — driving the schoolgirl closer to taking her own life. That's a claim at the heart of a shocking lawsuit against Olivia Grace Bennett and her colleagues at Dr. Phinnize J. Fisher Middle School in Greenville, South Carolina. Kelaia, then 12, faced merciless bullying from five classmates, who called her 'roach,' and 'a man' and physically attacked her, the suit alleges. Rather than stopping the bullies, Bennett, 26, was allegedly 'complicit,' pointing at the abused student as her classmates jeered. In...

A New Jersey law that removes a requirement for teachers to pass a reading, writing and mathematics test for certification will go into effect on Jan. 1, 2025. The law, Act 1669, was passed by Democratic New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy as part of the state’s 2025 budget in June in an effort to address a shortage of teachers in the state... Individuals seeking an instructional certificate will no longer need to pass a “basic skills” test ... Just months earlier, Murphy signed a similar bill into law that created an alternative pathway for teachers to sidestep the testing requirement....

A South Dakota schoolboy posed as a 14-year-old girl to ensnare a teacher after his friend said the educator was allegedly sending her uncomfortable messages. Huron Middle School teacher Zachary Kaderabek, 28, was arrested and placed on unpaid leave after he allegedly sent at least four photos of his penis to the boy, who was not identified, according to Keloland News. The boy made a fake Snapchat account under the name Kate after his 12-year-old female friend told him the teacher had added her on the social media app and had sent her a message that 'made her feel uncomfortable,'...

A Pennsylvania woman allegedly shot both of her elderly parents in the head before mutilating their bodies with a chainsaw over the course of nine days, officials said. Verity Beck, 49, was charged with double homicide after police found her parents, Reid and Miriam Beck, in “different stages of dismemberment,” Montgomery County District Attorney Kevin R. Steele said Wednesday. An autopsy found that the couple, both in their 70s, was each shot once in the head at close range. Police found the graphic scene at 10:30 p.m. Tuesday after Verity’s brother called for police to conduct a wellness check on...

A Mississippi teacher is “no longer employed” after serving dog treats that she apparently thought was beef jerky to students, leading to at least one child getting sent to the hospital. The teacher gave eight high school students at least one bite of the canine treats during a class birthday party on Wednesday, Calhoun County School District superintendent Dr. Lisa Langford told WTVA. While the school district did not identify the faculty member in question, they did state that the teacher is “no longer employed,” local anchor Wayne Hereford said:

An Oxford trainee teacher who shared over 1,000 videos of newborn babies being raped has walked free. Jacob Chouffot, of Iffley, distributed and received more than 1,000 of the most serious Category A films and photos between 2015 and 2019 Yet despite the severity of the offences, the 26-year-old was not given a custodial sentence when appearing in Oxford Crown Court this week. This was because the judge said he was not a direct danger to the public after Chouffot admitted 14 counts of MAKING, possessing and distributing child abuse images. Chouffot was arrested in November 2022 and quit his...

BREAKING: Parents blasted the @StHelensSD school board after discovering that a teacher who was arrested for allegedly s*xuaIIy abusing students was LET BACK IN THE CLASSROOM while still under investigation without the school even informing parents. Why are schools covering for child pre*dat*rs?!

KAPOLEI (Hawaii News Now) -- The race for the White House is reaching local classrooms and one lesson has some parents raising their eyebrows. The controversy is over a two-page document that was handed out to classrooms at Kapolei Middle School. It broke down where the U.S. presidential candidates — Democratic Vice President Kamala Harris and Republican former President Donald Trump — stand on the issues. The state Department of Education confirms the document was put together by a group of teachers at the school who simplified the information in a candidate comparison article in the New York Times. The...

The Democrat Party is pushing to increase “literacy” on climate change-related material in America’s schools while students are performing poorly with respect to actual literacy. The party’s education platform mentions the importance of “climate literacy” for American K-12 students several times, emphasizing the purported need for students to be able to understand and interpret information relating to climate change. Meanwhile, the average reading score for both fourth and eighth grade students in 2022 had fallen by three points relative to 2019, according to the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP). “We will equip students with the knowledge and skills to...

Democratic Vice Presidential nominee Tim Walz’s story about why he first decided to get involved in political campaigns contradicts public records and statements reviewed by the Washington Examiner.Walz, who previously had a career as a social studies teacher, has long repeated a story about how he and two of his students were refused entry to a reelection rally for former President George W. Bush in 2004, saying that the incident was ultimately what inspired him to get involved in politics, according to the Examiner. However, Walz himself was not refused entry, according to a source who spoke anonymously with the...

Democratic vice-presidential candidate and Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz touts his credentials as a former public school teacher on the campaign trail — but the North Star State’s education performance has deteriorated under his leadership, critics told The Post. Since Walz entered the governor’s office in 2019, students’ comprehension statewide for reading and math has plummeted, while his administration has come under fire for pushing what’s been described as an extremist, ideology-influenced curricula in the classroom. “He spent most of the last two years working to accommodate far-left demands in his party rather than working to address real education issues in...