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		<title>Teacher resigns after winning a date with a porn star</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 25 Aug 2007 13:45:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>chalkie</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[	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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Substitute teacher facing jail over adult web content</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Mar 2007 06:43:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>chalkie</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[	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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>10 ways teachers can use technology to reduce stress</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Jan 2007 13:14:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>chalkie</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[	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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Teacher fired for &#8220;butt painting&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Jan 2007 08:48:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>chalkie</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[	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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Girl charged with disorderly conduct for wetting her pants</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Jan 2007 05:28:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>chalkie</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[	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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Man returns library book 47 years late</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Jan 2007 12:41:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>chalkie</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[	In a story reminiscent of an episode from Seinfeld, Mr Robert Nuranen is reported by CNN.com as having returned an overdue library book he'd borrowed for a ninth-grade assignment. Only problem for Mr Nuranen was that the book was due back in 1960. How much was he slugged for the late fees? $171.32. What a [...]]]></description>
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