Mother Complains Math Homework Is Racist

A Philadelphia area middle school teacher thought he was motivating students by putting funny clip art from Google Images onto his math worksheets.

But when he chose an image of a toothless black man in a straw hat and suspenders over top of the misspelled words, “NO WA!!!!”, one parent cried racism.

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In Defense of the Editor Who Reported Teacher’s Dirty Net Comments

A teacher who was spending the school day online posting vulgar comments on a local newspaper’s website has lost his job. So why is everyone mad at the editor who turned him in to school officials?

Kurt Greenbaum of the St. Louis Post Dispatch e-mailed the school when he noticed the it was the source linked to a commenter who had repeatedly tried posting a dirty word for part of the female anatomy. Continue reading »

Teacher Canned for Using “B-Word” on Facebook

A high school English teacher who used the “b-word” on her private Facebook page is out of a job thanks to an anonymous letter sent to school administration.

To top it off - she posted a picture of herself from a European vacation holding a glass of wine. Oh, the horrors. Continue reading »

Kansas Teacher Fired Over Florida Joke

While most eighth graders would agree that sexual innuendo and risque jokes are just part of being a teenager, they are usually shared by classmates, not teachers.  Likewise, getting in trouble at school for an off-color joke is generally the job of kids, not faculty.  But in a science class at Mission Valley Middle School in Prairie Village, Kansas, it was the teacher being inappropriate and the punishment he received was much  harsher than detention. Continue reading »

Teacher Treats Kid Like Dog for Punishment

A seven-year-old was forced to get down on all fours and crawl around his classroom like a dog because his first-grade teacher said she was at her wits end with him. Continue reading »

Teacher Fired for Being Transgender

All he wanted was for kids to call him “Mr.” instead of Mrs. Instead Jan Buterman lost his job as a substitute teacher because school district officials say “a person cannot change their gender.”

Guess what folks - he just did. Continue reading »

Red Sox Fan Forces 9-Year-Old to Flip Yankees Shirt

He’s teaching in upstate New York. So why did a teacher send a 9-year-old to the bathroom to turn his New York Yankees t-shirt inside out?

Because he’s a Red Sox fan. Continue reading »

They Say: Teachers Can Pre-Hate Your Kid

Turns out teachers really do pre-judge your kids based on reputation alone. So your little hellion is in for a hell of a year.

You’re packing up the moving van right now, aren’t you? Continue reading »

What Your Child’s Teacher Will Never (Ever) Tell You

Your child’s teacher will tell you a lot of things:  What last night’s homework was, that your child talks too much in class, or that little Suzy seems to finally mastering her multiplication tables.

But besides being professional educators, teachers are also human.  And there’s often a lot more they’d like to say, but don’t.  Unless, of course, they’re allowed to be completely anonymous.

When Reader’s Digest interviewed teachers from all over the country, they came up with the real list of things your child’s teacher wished you knew.  A sampling:

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Elementary Teacher Tops FBI’s Most Wanted

In all the to-do about Jaycee Lee Dugard and her unfolding tale, I nearly missed the story of another missing person - this one a former third grade teacher who has been on the lam since last year for alleged sexual misdeeds against children. Continue reading »