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Teacher Suspended for 'Racially charged' Comments About Obama
A Marianna middle-school teacher has been suspended for 10 days without pay after he wrote a racially charged interpretation of a commonly used phrase in the presidential campaign of Sen. Barack Obama.
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While some parents and community activists were outraged by the actions of Greg Howard, Jackson County NAACP officials want to gather more facts before the group considers taking action. But some parents feel Howard should be fired. A Marianna middle-school teacher has been suspended for 10 days without pay after he wrote a racially charged interpretation of a comm... more -
Teacher filmed student having sex on school trip
A classics teacher at Shrewsbury School allowed a pupil to have sex in his room while on a school trip then filmed it on a video camera, a disciplinary committee has heard.
Michael Clarkson was in charge of 29 pupils from one of the largest public schools in the country during a tennis trip to Portugal.
Following the incident, Clarkson, who is in his 30's, was sacked from his job at The Shrewsbury School, which was attended by Charles Darwin and famous Radio One DJ John Peel.
Yesterday he was banned from teaching for four years.
A General Teaching Council hearing heard how Clarkson organized the trip, in April 2006, and was the senior teacher among five other members of staff.
He failed to impose curfews on the pupils and allowed them to drink alcohol and stay out at a nightclub until after 4.30am.
On the final night of the trip, Clarkson allowed a 17-year-old male pupil use his hotel room to have sex with a girl he had met in the nightclub.
The pupil used Clarkson's room to have sex with the girl and then returned to the nightclub around 4.30 am.
When the pupil asked Clarkson if he could use the room for a second time, the teacher agreed and told the pupil to text him when he had finished and he would give the female a lift home.
During the second sex session, the teenager noticed a video camera was switched on and pointing at the bed.
He scrolled back through the footage and saw Clarkson setting up the camera and positioning it in the bedroom.
When confronted by the pupil, Clarkson apologized and claimed it was joke, but on their return the boy reported him. A classics teacher at Shrewsbury School allowed a pupil to have sex in his room while on a school trip then filmed it on a video camer... more -
Female teacher gets 6 years in student sex case
elsey Peterson, 26-year-old female teacher from Lexington, Nebraska, plead guilty to federal charges of crossing state lines to engage in sex with a person under and was sentenced to six years in prison.
Peterson was a sixth-grade teacher and coach in small town of Lexington, until Oct. 25 2007, when school officials put Peterson on administrative leave after learning that she might be in a relationship with a 13-year-old student. The school had reason to believe that 25-year-old Kelsey Peterson was having sexual relationship with 13-year-old Fernando Rodriguez.
According to police, correspondence uncovered in an investigation shows the two have had a sexual relationship for some time. Letters allegedly sent by Rodriguez while living at a home for at-risk boys in Alliance refers to teacher Kelsey Peterson as his “Baby Gurl” and says that their relationship is about more than sex. It is also alleged that correspondence written by Peterson and found on school computers supports the allegations against Peterson. ... elsey Peterson, 26-year-old female teacher from Lexington, Nebraska, plead guilty to federal charges of crossing state lines to engage... more -
5 Current Female Teacher Sex Cases In Media
Lisa Robyn Marinelli, 40, a substitute teacher at Mitchell High School in New Port Richey, Florida was arrested and charged with unlawful sex with a minor in March.
Marinelli is accused of having a sexual relationship with a 17-year-old male student. It is further alleged that the boy’s father told investigators that he saw his son “holding his pants together and putting them back in place” after exiting Marinelli’s vehicle late in february.
Stephanie Harris, 27, a teacher at Marble City Schools has surrendered herself to the Sequoyah County Sheriff's Department after a warrant was issued on allegations of her having sexual relations with a minor. Harris allegedly had intercourse with a 13-year-old student. A court affidavit says after that incident, Harris sent the victim several text messages of nude photos of herself. Harris now faces four felony charges including first degree rape. Alleged activity did not occur at the school, but happened during the month of June during the school recess.
Autumn Lee Leathers, 24, an English teacher at Mountain Ridge High School, was arrested for allegedly engaging in sex with a 15-year-old male student. She faces numerous charges, including child abuse, child sexual abuse, and sex offenses. Officers say they were contacted by a resident, who noticed the student at Leathers’ home several times in the late evening. When he was interviewed by officers, the student told them he and Leathers had a sexual relationship that started in May of this year and continued throughout the summer.
Allanah Benton-Wells, 42-year-old elementary school teacher and mother, is accused of having sex with a 12-year-old boy who was a student her sixth grade class. It is alleged that Benton-Wells had sex with the sixth-grade male student on two separate occasions around Halloween of 2007. Reportedly the boy was in her class and she was supposed to be tutoring at her home. The boy's mother found out about their relationship after intercepting a phone call between the two.
Adrienne LaFlamme, a 60-year-old science teacher at the Brevard County Juvenile Detention Center was formally charged this week with 25 felonies and two misdemeanors in connection with a series of sexual encounters with 17-year-old and 14-year-old boys. Palm Bay police said Laflamme met a 17-year-old inmate in April at the Juvenile Detention in Sharpes where she taught science.She is charged with lewd and lascivious conduct, exhibition, battery and molestation of the 14-year-old she allegedly engaged in a threesome with herself and the older boy.
Amy Northcutt, 26, a former history teacher at Turlock Christian School in Turlock, California along with husband Justin Northcutt was arrested in early June on suspicion of distribution or exhibition of lewd material to a minor and annoying or molesting a child under 18. The Northcutts are alleged to have sent sexually explicit cell phone messages and photos to a 16-year-old female student in an effort to arrange group sex with the girl. The Northcutts came to the attention of authorities by way of the girl’s mother, reportedly after Justin Northcutt was spotted talking to the alleged victim while she attended a family gathering. Lisa Robyn Marinelli, 40, a substitute teacher at Mitchell High School in New Port Richey, Florida was arrested and charged with unlaw... more -
200,000 kids are spanked at school every year.
More than 200,000 children were spanked or paddled in U.S. schools during the past school year, human rights groups reported Wednesday.
"Every public school needs effective methods of discipline, but beating kids teaches violence, and it doesn't stop bad behavior," wrote Alice Farmer, the author of a joint report from Human Rights Watch and the American Civil Liberties Union. "Corporal punishment discourages learning, fails to deter future misbehavior and at times even provokes it."
The highest percentage of students receiving corporal punishment was in Mississippi, with 7.5 percent of students. The highest number was in Texas, with 48,197 students.
"When you talk to local school officials, they point to the fact that it's quick and it's effective and that's true," Farmer said. "It doesn't take much time to administer corporal punishment, and you don't have to hire someone to run a detention or an after-school program."
But she said, "We need forms of discipline that makes children understand why what they did was wrong."
In addition, corporal punishment can be linked to poverty and lack of resources. For instance, the report said, "Teachers may have overcrowded classrooms and lack resources such as counselors to assist with particularly disruptive students or classroom dynamics."
The punishment is disproportionately applied to black students, according to the organizations. During the 2006-07 school year, for instance, black students made up 17.1 percent of the nationwide student population but 35.6 percent of those paddled at schools.
Black girls were paddled at twice the rate of their white counterparts in the 13 states using corporal punishment most frequently. And although boys are punished more often than girls, the report found that African-American students in general are 1.4 times more likely to receive corporal punishment.
In addition, special education students with mental or physical disabilities were more likely to receive corporal punishment, according to the ACLU and Human Rights Watch.
Evangelical leader James Dobson's influential Focus on the Family group is among those stopping short of calling for a full ban on paddling in schools.
"Corporal punishment is not effective at the junior and senior high school levels, and I do not recommend its application," Dobson said on the organization's Web site.
"It can be useful for elementary students, especially with amateur clowns (as opposed to hard-core troublemakers). For this reason, I am opposed to abolishing spanking in elementary schools because we have systematically eliminated the tools with which teachers have traditionally backed up their word. We're now down to a precious few. Let's not go any further in that direction."
Andrea Cancellare said her then-13-year-old son was paddled -- or "swatted" -- three years ago for flicking rubber bands in class, despite the fact she had written a letter directing school officials in Alpine, Texas, not to use corporal punishment against him. School officials told her they could not find the letter when she complained.
When she approached the principal and superintendent, Cancellare said, they told her that "most parents like this because it takes care of the punishment. It gets the kids back in class. It doesn't disrupt instruction. It's like the quick and dirty way of dealing with discipline problems."
"It works on some, and it doesn't work on others," Cervantes said. "If you're one of the individuals that it does work on, yes, it will become a deterrent."
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Cancellare disagrees. "I don't think it's the school's place to make decisions like that," she said. "I'm not necessarily in favor of that kind of punishment in the house either, but I feel like if somebody makes that decision, it should be the parent." More than 200,000 children were spanked or paddled in U.S. schools during the past school year, human rights groups reported Wednesday... more -
Female teacher pleads guilty to sex acts with fifth-graders
Brandy Lynn Gonzales, 28, a former fifth-grade teacher at Piney Point Elementary School in Houston, Texas pleaded guilty in august 2008 to four counts of aggravated sexual assault of a child and one count of indecency with a child. Gonzales' husband, Johnny Gonzales, 34, admitted to one count of sexually assaulting a student. The ex-teacher has been charged with three counts of aggravated sexual assault of a child younger than 14 and two counts of indecency involving a child.
Police said the five victims were all male students from Piney Point Elementary who were between 11 and 13 when the assaults allegedly took place. Students alleged that Gonzales would touch and fondle them under their desks during class and in the movies. Prosecutors also said the boys' parents would leave them at the theater with Gonzales, thinking she was a good teacher.
According to criminal complaints filed against her, Brandy Gonzales allegedly forced at least one child to have oral sex with her. The documents also allege that her husband sodomized another child who was also abused by his wife in a separate incident. Brandy Lynn Gonzales, 28, a former fifth-grade teacher at Piney Point Elementary School in Houston, Texas pleaded guilty in august 200... more -
Female Teacher Accused Of Sending Girl Explicit Messages
Amy Northcutt, 26, a former history teacher at Turlock Christian School in Turlock, California along with husband Justin Northcutt was arrested in early June on suspicion of distribution or exhibition of lewd material to a minor and annoying or molesting a child under 18.
The Northcutts are alleged to have sent sexually explicit cell phone messages and photos to a 16-year-old female student in an effort to arrange group sex with the girl.
Authorities say relatives of the student caught on before anything physical happened.
"If family members didn't jump in on time, who knows what this could have led to," said Deputy Royjinder Singh of the Stanislaus Sheriff's Department.
The Stanislaus County district attorney’s office indicated on Tuesday that the Northcutts will face criminal charges although the exact nature of the charges was not revealed. Amy Northcutt, 26, a former history teacher at Turlock Christian School in Turlock, California along with husband Justin Northcutt was... more -
Chinese teacher sent to labour camp for earthquake photos
A Chinese teacher has been sent to a labour camp over his internet photographs of schools that collapsed in the Sichuan earthquake, a rights group said today.
Liu Shaokun was ordered to serve a year of "re-education through labour", according to Human Rights in China. The system does not require a formal charge or criminal trial and there is no appeal.
He is believed to be the third person held after posting material questioning why so many schools were destroyed in the May 12 earthquake, in which around 70,000 people died.
Scores of schools across the south-western province collapsed following the 7.9 magnitude shock. In many cases, other buildings around them remained intact, prompting questions about the quality of their construction.
The authorities initially responded to a wave of public outrage by promising an inquiry into whether shoddy building work was linked to corruption.
But they have subsequently silenced critics, ordering the state media not
to report on the subject and preventing parents from protesting.
In recent weeks, police have dragged grieving relatives away from demonstrations in some areas. Families have been pressed to sign contracts granting them compensation, which include commitments not to protest or attempts to sue the authorities.
"Instead of investigating and pursuing accountability for shoddy and
dangerous school buildings, the authorities are resorting to re-education
through labour to silence and lock up concerned citizens like teacher Liu
Shaokun and others," said Sharon Hom, executive director of Human Rights in China.
The group said that Liu, a teacher at Guanghan middle School in Deyang City, was detained on June 25 for "disseminating rumours and destroying social order". His wife, who has not been allowed to see him, was told last week that he had been sent to a labour camp.
He had travelled through the quake zone taking pictures of the ruins of
schools and circulating them on the internet, along with criticism of
shoddy building work.
The public security bureau in Deyang told the Guardian it was trying to
find out more about the matter and the propaganda department of the
Guanghan City people's government said it had not heard of the case.
But an official with the general office of the Guanghan school where Liu
worked told Reuters: "He was detained late last month by people from
national security bureau for deliberately inciting families of victims to
petition and disseminating anti-government rumours. They searched his home and found evidence."
China uses the labour camps to detain suspects for up to four years. Critics say it is unfair and is used to detain political
and religious activists.
The family of Huang Qi, a long-standing human rights activist from Sichuan, said this month that he had been formally arrested for "illegal possession of state secrets" after helping bereaved parents and posting articles about structural failings of schools on his website.
His wife, Zeng Li, told reporters he had not been allowed to see a lawyer or relatives since his detention on June 10.
One of his articles was about the detention of Zeng Hongling, a former
academic detained on subversion charges after she posted online essays attacking shoddy construction, according to the Hong Kong-based Information Centre for Human Rights and Democracy. A Chinese teacher has been sent to a labour camp over his internet photographs of schools that collapsed in the Sichuan earthquake, a ... more -
Female counselor admits to sex with girl student
Melody Ybona Gawliu, 24-year-old teacher's aide at El Camino High School, Melody Ybona Gawliu, has pleaded no contest to one count of oral copulation with a 16-year-old female student.
A Daly City high school counselor was involved in an inappropriate relationship with a 16-year-old student she met at summer church camp, according to prosecutors who said the woman had naked photos of the girl on her cell phone.
Gawliu worked as a teacher’s aide at El Camino High School in South San Francisco when, between Sept. 1, 2007 and Jan. 25, she engaged in a romantic relationship with a teen student she met that summer while serving as a counselor, according to the District Attorney’s Office.
Teachers reported the situation to Child Protective Services after becoming suspicious of Gawliu after she brought balloons to school for the girl’s 17th birthday and Daly City police reported finding nude photos of the girl on Gawliu’s phone as well as a text message telling the girl to say to authorities nothing happened between them.
Gawliu was initially charged with two counts of digital penetration with a person under age 18, attempting to dissuade a witness and felonious possession of sexual images of a person under age 18. Melody Ybona Gawliu, 24-year-old teacher's aide at El Camino High School, Melody Ybona Gawliu, has pleaded no contest to one coun... more -
Kenya: Government Should End All Corporal Punishment
The government should make it a priority to end violence against children whether in the home, school or elsewhere, five human rights organizations said today in joint letters to Kenya’s ministers of education, gender and children affairs, and justice.
Even though officials in 2007 welcomed a UN study on violence against children, little has been done to implement the study’s recommendations.
“Corporal punishment must be abolished in all settings,” said the letter signed by Human Rights Watch, African Network for the Prevention and Protection against Child Abuse and Neglect (ANPPCAN), The Cradle, Kenya Alliance For Advancement of Rights of Children (KAARC), and Children Legal Action Network (CLAN). The organizations said a full ban on corporal punishment could be achieved “through amendments to the Children’s Act and the Education Act, which are currently being prepared for vote in parliament.”
The letter stressed that the new ministers will have a crucial function in protecting the rights of young Kenyans. The ministers were appointed as members of a coalition government in April 2008 following extensive political violence in Kenya.
Corporal punishment in schools continues, though physical abuse was outlawed in 2001, and a legal notice specifically prohibits corporal punishment in schools. In interviews carried out in 2007, pupils described to Human Rights Watch how some teachers cane children, while others resort to different forms of physical punishment; some children have suffered lasting injuries.
The letter also urges the new government ministers to provide training, raise awareness, and institute programs that better monitor teachers and others responsible for or working with children; and to ensure compliance with the ban on corporal punishment. It calls on the government to “take a lead in implementing the recommendations of the UN Study on Violence against Children, and for that purpose, set up a task force to develop and implement a national strategy or plan of action on ending violence against children.”
The UN Secretary-General’s Study on Violence against Children, presented to the UN General Assembly in October 2006, was welcome by the previous Kenyan government, which hosted a regional launch in 2007. However, Kenya has failed to take any meaningful steps to implement the study’s recommendations. The government should make it a priority to end violence against children whether in the home, school or elsewhere, five human rights ... more -
Virgin School for Men
I know is weir but what can you say. I was not even aware that so many man still don't know about this. Well in England you can hire a teacher for it! I know is weir but what can you say. I was not even aware that so many man still don't know about this. Well in England you can h... more
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Naughty Teacher Gets Jail
Stephanie Ann Stein 32 years old mother of two, a former teacher at Plymouth Christian Academy, in Canton, Michigan was sentenced today in Wayne County Circuit Court to three to fifteen years in prison on two counts of third-degree criminal sexual conduct.
Wayne County Circuit Court Judge Craig Strong also sentenced Stein to 30 to 48 months on the using the Internet to communicate with a minor to commit a crime count and 16 to 24 months on the count of distributing obscene material of a sexual nature to a minor. These latter two sentences are to run concurrent with the sentence on criminal sexual conduct. Stephanie Ann Stein 32 years old mother of two, a former teacher at Plymouth Christian Academy, in Canton, Michigan was sentenced toda... more -
Female Teacher sentenced to 8 years
Monica Ann Cluck, 25, a kindergarten teacher at Woodrow Wilson Elementary School, in Paragould, Arkansas, was facing two counts of sexual assault in the first degree, and it took the jury only one hour of deliberation to return a verdict of guilty on all charges against Monica Cluck. Cluck was sentenced to 8 years in prison.
Her victims were two boys, 17 and 15 years old, members of a church group Cluck taught at Marmaduke First Baptist Church.
Cluck came to the attention of authorities when her husband Jeffery Cluck provided sheriff’s deputies with a bag of items include love letters, used pregnancy test and used condoms and an videotape which reportedly shows her having sex with a teenager and providing the teen with alcohol ... Monica Ann Cluck, 25, a kindergarten teacher at Woodrow Wilson Elementary School, in Paragould, Arkansas, was facing two counts of sex... more -
Pro-palestinian activist found dead in a lake.
Riad Hamad, a Austin, texas teacher was found dead in a lake. Tape was found around the eyes, and the hands and legs were loosely bound. The Austin Police ruled it a suicide. Riad Hamad is a non-violent activist in Austin, Texas. He holds multiple Master’s degrees and has never been arrested. Click the link for more on this story Riad Hamad, a Austin, texas teacher was found dead in a lake. Tape was found around the eyes, and the hands and legs were loosely boun... more
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The 2000 Dolls Teacher
"Photographer and filmmaker Veena Rao re-visits her now retired second grade teacher and her over 2,000 dolls who all live together in a vinyl sided house in an "active adult community" deep in the heart of suburban Illinois. Via her dolls, who are all named, dressed and positioned all over the house and in every inch of her basement turned doll museum, we learn about the evolution of girls and society." "Photographer and filmmaker Veena Rao re-visits her now retired second grade teacher and her over 2,000 dolls who all live togeth... more
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Teacher framed on drug and weapons charges
FULLERTON – The teacher arrested and then cleared in what authorities now describe as an elaborate setup said this morning that his mood had swung from paranoia and fear to gratitude for the support he received. Police have named Abbott’s wife, Devon E. Abbott, and a male acquaintance of hers as persons of interest. FULLERTON – The teacher arrested and then cleared in what authorities now describe as an elaborate setup said this morning that his mo... more
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STOP THE WITCH HUNT
Anthony Westbury: What's really going on in that classroom?
PORT ST. LUCIE — There are so many questions I want to ask about exactly what happened in Wendy Portillo's kindergarten class between her and Alex Barton, 5.
I'm not getting many answers.
Portillo herself isn't talking. That'd be contrary to St. Lucie School District policy and, I guess, might be reason in itself for her termination.
The school district isn't saying much either, because it can't.
Barbara Slaga, assistant superintendent for exceptional student education & student services cites confidentiality concerns that prevent her from discussing any specifics in this case.
Pity, because it's the specifics we all want to hear.
What Slaga could tell me was rather generic. The process of evaluating a student with behavioral issues is long and complicated. Assessment experts from the district office tend to get called in by teachers or principals who notice unusual behaviors in class. What stage of the assessment process was Alex Barton at? Slaga couldn't tell me, but professional advisors would determine whether a child should be kept in a regular class or assigned to special education classes.
Should he have been in Wendy Portillo's class at all? We simply don't know.
Of the hundreds of online comments, both on our tcpalm.com Web site and others (including one at the Chicago Tribune), many people are demanding Portillo's head. They want her fired — or worse. Many think she should never stand in front of a class of students again.
They might be right, but I'm not willing to bury the lady until I've heard the other side.
I did take a look at Portillo's personnel file. It revealed absolutely nothing out of order.
On the contrary, many of her annual evaluations refer to "an awesome teacher," "exemplary" and other superlatives.
It was more than a decade ago (1996), but I was struck by her "superior" scores (the highest possible) in "effectively manages student conduct," and "demonstrates appropriate student-teacher interaction."
Has Portillo turned into a monster since 1996? I doubt it.
Along with the online comments about Portillo's future, I've received a few from teachers (or their spouses). Perhaps not surprisingly, these were a lot more sympathetic to Portillo than the rest.
Judith Fleming, a former high school teacher with 30 years (23 of them in St. Lucie County) under her belt, said, "I can't tell you how many classes were ruined by the actions of one or two students. Everyone keeps writing about that child, who according to articles spent many hours in the principal's office for inappropriate behavior, but no one is writing about how the learning of other students was affected by this child."
She suggests Alex should be assigned to a special class "with others like him until he can learn to function in a mainstream class. All too often the interests of 'special education' students outweigh those of every other student."
Many online readers, on the other hand, are appalled at the very thought of putting kids like Alex in special classes. It's the teacher who's at fault here, they say.
I don't know the answers to any of these questions, and (I suspect) nor do you. Perhaps we should put this witch hunt on hold until we do. Anthony Westbury: What's really going on in that classroom? ... more -
LOCAL EDITOR SPEAKS ON TEACHERS BEHALF AFTER SHE HAS BEEN ACCUSED OF VOTING STUDEN...
I'd been out of town for a few days over the holiday weekend, so I was catching up on the sun-bleached newspapers that had been littering my front yard.
A name suddenly caught my eye: Wendy Portillo of Morningside Elementary School in Port St. Lucie.
The name — and the reason for the story that mentioned her — made me catch my breath.
Portillo is accused of allowing her kindergarten class at Morningside to "vote out" a 5-year-old fellow student who apparently has a history of behavior problems in the classroom. The student, David Barton, is undergoing diagnosis for possible autism, which makes what happened in Portillo' s classroom even more difficult to understand.
The original story attracted more than 300 comments online. Many expressed outrage, some were downright unpleasant. There were calls for her firing, even for the child's parents to sue her individually.
The reason my heart skipped a beat was that I know Wendy Portillo and I simply cannot connect the lady I met with the person I read about in the paper.
I've spoken to Portillo several times on the phone and met her in person about three weeks ago. I was put in touch with her by a fellow teacher at Morningside.
After winning the state championships against schools from as far afield as Key West, Portillo and her team of third- through fifth-grade students have been invited to the world championships of Odyssey of the Mind at the end of this week at the University of Maryland.
Odyssey of the Mind is an almost 30-year-old organization that sets up academic problem-solving competitions for students from kindergarten through college level all over America and in 28 or so other countries around the world. The Morningside kids and their coach Portillo deserved some press coverage, the teacher told me.
The Morningside students had to create a humorous stage performance that explains the evolutionary demise of the dinosaurs in a grand total of eight minutes or less. The kids have to write the script, build the props and create the costumes. They've been working on "DinoStories" since last October, meeting several times a week. As Portillo told me, "there's a lot of sacrifice involved" and team members have to be extremely dedicated.
I meet a lot of people in my job and like to think I'm a fairly good judge of character. I like to think I can smell a rat a mile away.
Wendy Portillo gave not a whiff of anything amiss.
On the contrary, she seems a loving, caring person who genuinely wants only the best for her students. She certainly gave me the impression she's the sort of kindergarten teacher you'd remember with affection later in life.
And yet, here she finds herself in crisis, removed from her classroom. Reportedly, she admitted to holding the classroom vote, but now school board protocol prevents her from airing her side of the story. The Port St. Lucie Police Department and State Attorney's Office have both declined to press charges of child abuse.
There's obviously another side to this story and maybe one day we'll hear it. In the meantime, I'm suspending judgment. I think after teaching our kids for 12 years in St. Lucie County — nine of them at Morningside to some pretty lofty levels — we owe her that. I'd been out of town for a few days over the holiday weekend, so I was catching up on the sun-bleached newspapers that had been l... more -
One in Eight U.S. Biology Teachers Teaches Creationism
"The results of the first national survey of teachers about evolution in their classrooms are in. Darwin would quiver in his boots to learn that in this day and age, one in eight American biology teachers teach creationism and intelligent design as a sound alternative to his theory. In fact, 13 percent of the country’s teachers think they can run an excellent biology class without even mentioning Darwin or evolution. "
Oh god. "The results of the first national survey of teachers about evolution in their classrooms are in. Darwin would quiver in his boot... more -
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