Showing posts with label Teachers. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Teachers. Show all posts

Tuesday, November 18, 2014

Charming

November 18, 2014 Conservative Tribune , Ferguson 0 Comments
Black Teacher Learns Her Fate After Telling Whites To “Kill Yourselves”

Conservative Tribune, Nov. 18, 2014

The Dallas-area teacher who sparked a firestorm of controversy over her offensive tweets last week has been fired.

Vinita Hegwood submitted her resignation Monday, but the Duncanville Independent School District voted unanimously to reject it, choosing to terminate her instead.

The trouble began when the Duncanville High School English teacher tweeted Nov. 7 about the ongoing troubles in Ferguson, Mo., and others responded in a way that she considered “threatening and racist.”

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Thursday, November 13, 2014

Parents not told full story

November 13, 2014 Coverup , Drinking 0 Comments
Report: Drunk Teacher ‘Wet Himself’ During Class In Front Of Students

Victor Skinner, Nov. 10, 2014, Education Action Group

The Southington High School principal sent a letter to parents about an incident at the school Thursday in which a teacher “behaved in an unprofessional manner … and was removed immediately from the classroom,” WTNH reports.

But an “insider” at the school told the news station there’s a lot more to the story than school officials are letting on and alleges they’re attempting to sweep the situation under the rug.

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Monday, October 27, 2014

Teachers unions NOT happy with story

October 27, 2014 Haley Sweetland Edwards , Teacher Tenure 0 Comments
TIME: The War On Teacher Tenure

Haley Sweetland Edwards, Oct. 23, 2014, TIME.com

On a warm day in early June, a Los Angeles County trial-court judge, Rolf M. Treu, pink-cheeked beneath a trim white beard, dropped a bombshell on the American public-school system. Ruling in Vergara v. California, Treu struck down five decades-old California laws governing teacher tenure and other job protections on the grounds that they violate the state’s constitution.

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Monday, April 7, 2014

SamOHi Kids Defend Teacher Accused In Wild Fight (Video) -At LAUSD, the kid's just "willfully defiant" (sarcasm)

SamOHi Kids Defend Teacher Accused In Wild Fight (Video) -At LAUSD, the kid's just "willfully defiant" (sarcasm)

April 07, 2014 Academia , Caught On Tape 0 Comments
SANTA MONICA (CBSLA.com) — A video showing a teacher and wrestling coach at Santa Monica High School fighting with a student that was captured on cell phone video has gone viral.

While the teacher and coach has been placed on leave, scores of students took to social media on Saturday to support him.

In a letter to parents, Sandra Lyon, the superintendent of the Santa Monica-Malibu Unified School District, said the altercation happened in a classroom Friday morning.

“A deeply disturbing incident involving a teacher and student occurred in a classroom at Santa Monica High School, resulting in the Santa Monica Police Department being called to the campus.


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Sunday, March 30, 2014

Students Sue The State Of California For Giving Them A Lousy Education--Seek Changes in Teacher Tenure

March 30, 2014 California , Education 0 Comments
By Emily Husley, Mar. 29, 2014, IJReview.com

Nine public school students are suing California for failing to provide them with a good education:

Vergara v. California, a case brought by nine California public school students against five state statutes they say keep ineffective teachers at the front of the class, concluded Thursday with an emotional closing argument by the plaintiffs’ lead co-counsel Marcellus McRae.


“Just because you have a license, doesn’t mean you can win the Indy 500. Just because you have a credential, doesn’t mean you are an effective teacher. That argument is done,” said McRae.

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Tuesday, March 25, 2014

Videos Show Students Laughing About How They Got Their Teacher FIRED--'Tutorials' So Other Kids Can Do The Same

March 25, 2014 Education , False Complaints 0 Comments

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