I cannot believe anyone took this email seriously: “I am a devout Muslim, and was once against violence, but I have teamed up with a local jihadist cell as it is the only way I’ll be able to accomplish my massacre the correct way.”
During my senior year of high school, a kid who sat behind me in class scrawled “Jailyn is black. Colored people suck. Niggers love Kool-Aid” into the wood-grain of his desk. On the day I found the writing, my phone had died and I was sitting in AP Biology trying to entertain myself with anything other than…
Isabel Khan, a former science teacher at Imagine School in West Melbourne, Fla., pleaded guilty to having been in a months-long sexual affair with a then 14-year-old student.
The parents of five-year-old Connor Ruiz have vowed to sue the Indian River Central School District in Philadelphia, New York, after their “out of control,” “combative” son was handcuffed and shackled by police officers at his elementary school.
The Hawkins County School District in East Tennessee has reportedly launched a new district-wide meat inspection program after apparently serving six-year-old pork to their students. “It’s not clear,” WATE reports, “if it was tainted.”
San Diego police arrested Linda Lira, an after-school assistant at Lemon Grove Academy, after she allegedly locked herself into a classroom Wednesday with 14 students and began undressing (and redressing) herself.
Mayor Bill de Blasio announced on Wednesday that two days in the NYC public school year will be turned into days off in observance of Muslim holidays Eid al-Adha and Eid al-Fitr.
In an intriguing new report by CNN, St. Joseph's Indian School has been "exposed" using less than honest sob stories and fake names in their letters to prospective donors—to the tune of $50 million last year. Turns out that "Josh Little Bear" didn't write you a letter begging for his continued sanctuary from poverty…
The New York Times business section reports today on the mild controversies surrounding the use of ClassDojo, an application that enables schoolteachers to upload a running log of every student's behavior into a cumulative scoreboard:
A Mobile, Ala., mom says school officials forced her daughter to sign a contract promising not to commit suicide or harm others after the kindergartner "drew something that resembled a gun," then pointed a crayon at another kid and said "pew, pew!"
A teacher at McKinley Middle School in Washington, D.C. sent their sixth grade students home with an assignment from a "war and peace" section in the curriculum: compare and contrast Adolf Hitler and former U.S. President George W. Bush in a Venn diagram. "Both men abused their powers," the teacher apparently…
The father of a British schoolboy says his son has been screwed out of a bus pass because the local council is stubbornly enforcing a policy down to the last decimal place. Jon Lawson, age 11, lives 1.999 miles away from school. Students who live 2 miles out are eligible for free passes.
A former Portland State University undergraduate has filed a $1 million lawsuit against her faculty mentor for sexual harassment over the professor's alleged obsession with the student's experiences as a BDSM model and sexual-abuse survivor.
The parents of El Paso elementary schoolers are still trying to figure out why their kids got a strange take-home assignment that involved reading several bleak passages in which a child possibly gets abused, a wife discovers her husband is cheating, and a mother learns of her son's death at war.
You teach high school math for 30 years, and everything's cool. But you pull ONE wood-carved cock-and-ball sculpture out in class, and it all falls down.
When you have children of your own, you realize for the first time what your own parents went through, things you couldn't possibly have understood when you were a child—and really are better off not having understood, because the knowledge would have been debilitating. There's the abyssal terror at having brought a…
Millennials these days are so busy fiddling with their technological gadgets and maintaining their #personalbrands, they have basically forgotten how to read like grown-ups. The youth of today are eschewing realism and historical fiction in favor of fantasy, horror, and sci-fi novels. As part of NPR's month-long look …
Oregon teenager Grant Acord will be charged with attempted aggravated murder after he was found with six bombs in his bedroom, which he allegedly planned to use on an attack on his school.
The Heights High School senior class president was suspended from school and banned from graduation ceremonies after he posted a tweet that insinuated his school's athletics were nonexistent.
Parents in Dietrich, Idaho, aren't very happy with the way science teacher Tim McDaniel is teaching their children human anatomy.
