As parents across America deposit their kids back in school with a sigh of relief, think about this: We disrespect teachers every single day, using money. It’s a fact!

At a public forum on Wednesday, a teacher asked Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev why teachers earn so little while cops earn so much, relatively—according to the Moscow Times, the starting monthly salary for educators is 10,000-15,000 rubles ($150-$225); law enforcement officers earn 50,000 rubles ($750) per…

Tomorrow, the Chicago Teachers Union will hold a one-day walkout to protest budget cuts, pay, and contract issues. “It has been death by a thousand cuts,” one teacher says. “But recently it’s felt more like, I don’t know, chopping off our arms.”

In San Francisco and Silicon Valley, housing is expensive and in short supply. All throughout the Bay Area, cities are discussing where the hell all their schoolteachers are supposed to live.

The worst part about today’s video of a Success Academy charter school teacher berating a small child isn’t just that it happened, but that the school appears fine with this shocking behavior as a matter of policy. If you used to teach at S.A. and have more to share, we’d like to hear from you.

School was scheduled to start Wednesday for more than 50,000 Seattle students, but they’re all staying home or heading back to day camps because Seattle Public Schools has asked teachers to work longer hours, with less recess, for a minimal increase in pay. The teachers, who have gone six years without even a…

A high school English teacher was arrested Thursday for feeding pot brownies to two female students even though come on it’s called high school what did you expect.

A Georgia middle school teacher was arrested Tuesday, accused of letting kids have sex with one another in his math classroom’s storage closet.

A middle school substitute teacher has been “removed from the classroom” after he was caught on video Friday hitting students with his belt as they scrambled away from him. The district took action after the footage ended up on LiveLeak, YouTube, and fight-video clearinghouse WorldStarHipHop.

A West Virginia high school teacher may be in trouble after letting students pick a movie to show in class as a reward for their good performance. Turns out the kids’ tastes are very ... singular. You wouldn’t understand.

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.

Cops say a lunch lady at a Chicago high school did more than serve lunch to a pair of brothers, one of whom was apparently underage at the time.

This painful video is going around today as a story about a teacher who lost his job after accidentally bashing a student in the nuts with the flat side of an axe during a classroom demonstration. But according to someone who was there, it was actually the teacher with his sack on—or rather, just a little too close…

In a story that, if we're being honest, could not have happened outside of Boston, a high school dean who also worked as a youth minister was just arrested for allegedly shooting a teenager in the back of the head over a drug deal.

On Monday morning, a popular photography teacher at El Dorado High School in Valencia, California was found hanging in her classroom by students, the Orange County Register reports.

If you find your college classroom un-taught today, do not be alarmed: it's for a good cause.