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School aim to fire counselor of 15 years because she’s married to a woman – parents and students are furious

In an interview on Monday, Fitzgerald explained to WTHR that her private life was made public when someone sent her 2014 marriage license to a school administrator. Said administrator then sent the license to the ...

Teacher spends all night on Easter surprise for students – when they walk in my heart breaks

The simple act of going to buy Easter gifts for his students would be a kind enough gesture in anyone’s book. After all, many of the kids in Walker’s class come from families who can’t ...

High school students’ incredible dance to classic movie is celebrated as one of the best ever

At the end of September, dance students from the Walden Grove High School in Sahuarita, Arizona, performed an unforgettable number before a sports match in their school gymnasium. And it was a show few would ...

Jim is school’s strictest teacher – when students discover his double life, they’re shocked

Jim O’Connor is a strict Vietnam veteran and tenured math teacher whom you don’t want to mess with. He sports a short, military-style haircut and has sharp, watchful eyes that regularly scan his classroom. At ...

Disobedient students will now have to face a serious punishment — do you agree with this old technique?

© Shutterstock The Three Rivers Independent School in south Texas is the first to provide its teachers with paddles, as it thinks it will help discipline misbehaving children — even though, there’s not much evidence to ...

Teacher forces students to write names of classmates they hate – but nobody was prepared for the next step

A teacher asked her students to bring some tomatoes in a plastic bag to school. Each tomato was to be given the name of a person whom that child hates. So, the number of tomatoes ...

Teacher writes inspiring messages on her students’ desks before a difficult test

Image Source Everyone who’s ever taken a standardized test knows how nerve-wracking it can be. And I’m sure that every year, fifth graders in New Jersey get stressed out by the state’s PARCC standardized test. ...

Teacher glues tennis balls on students’ chairs – the reason why is pure genius

Raymond Ellis Elementary School Amy Maplethorpe is a speech language pathologist at Raymond Ellis Elementary School. When she saw a chair with tennis balls glued to it on the internet, Amy realized that the special ...

Daycare teacher fired for slamming students’ heads into desk

An educator from Lasalle, Canada, was discovered using physical force when she slammed two of her students’ heads into a classroom table.  The episode was caught on tape, showing the educator trying to get the students ...

The school’s success recipe: Meditation instead of detention makes students calmer

Giving misbehaving students detention or suspension may be a good basic concept, but according to some experts, this tactic fails on the long term. The Robert W. Coleman School gained insight into this about two ...