Weird education related news

Teacher resigns after winning a date with a porn star

Here is an odd ‘teaching’ related news story. Apparently a Monessen High School teacher resigned after winning a date with a porn star during a radio contest. Details of the story were posted on the First Coast News website: “While listening to the “Bubba the Love Sponge” radio show on Sirius satellite radio, Biagini won [...]

The Age have again reported on the story of the substitute teacher facing jail over viewing adult content whilst in the class room. A substitute teacher faces up to 40 years in jail after pornographic website images were displayed to her seventh-grade students. But the conviction of 40-year-old Julie Amero – for four counts of [...]

I stumbled across this fantastic article on the LA times website whilst I should have been working. It provides some interesting and fun ideas for ways in which teachers could use technology, and the internet, to reduce their workload and stress. My personal favorite tip is number seven: Figuring out when rentals are due back [...]

A high school art teacher has been fired after his out of hours activities as a “butt printing artist” became public knowledge. The Associated Press has reported that the Chesterfield County School Board decided to terminate the employment of Stephen Murmer. Murmer, a teacher at Monacan High School, was suspended in December after objections were [...]

The International Herald Tribune have reported that a “12-year-old special education student was charged with disorderly conduct after authorities said she deliberately wet her pants at school.” The girl’s mother has told the media that her daughter had only urinated because she was frightened by the school principal. The whole sorry saga got even worse [...]