All posts tagged "Teacher"

Headlocks, slaps and whispered threats that “I will hurt you”: This is what New York fifth graders faced from a tenured public school teacher the city’s Education board is trying to fire, court records claim.

New York City's Board of Education is demanding the ax for a Brooklyn teacher found guilty in a probe of slapping a student – only to have an arbitrator recommend a slap on the wrist, according to a petition filed by the city's Department of Education Friday in New York Supreme Court.

“Given the inappropriateness of the Respondent’s alleged conduct, to wit: slapping students in the face, grabbing a student around the neck, putting students in headlocks, and making threatening comments to a colleague to the effect of “catch me outside, I’ll cut you b--ch,” the only rational penalty to be imposed is termination or at least a penalty that would be corrective in nature,” the petition states. ...

Two students in Kansas were suspended after they said a teacher accidentally showed a pornographic image in class.

A teenage student shot a teacher and a police officer dead, taking more than 20 other children hostage at a school in Russia’s capital Moscow on Monday, before he was disarmed and detained.

Three students were expelled from their elementary schools in Fresno, California Saturday afternoon for attempting to harm their teacher with rat poison in her coffee and cupcake's icing.

LONDON — A primary school teacher who filmed himself sexually abusing girls during one-on-one reading sessions was jailed on Tuesday.

A ninth grade algebra teacher was suspended from a Texas school district after making offensive comments to a Muslim student in front of the entire class.