NJ high school teacher accused of pocketing $1,400 from students who wanted better gradesAugust 31st, 2009 NJ teacher accused of selling grades for $1,400TRENTON, N.J. — A New Jersey social studies teacher has been charged with accepting cash from students looking to improve their grades.
Two Calif. schools locked down after teacher with replica rifles mistaken for gunmanAugust 15th, 2009 Teacher with gun replicas prompts school lockdownSAN DIEGO — A teacher who brought plastic replica rifles to his class prompted a lockdown of two San Diego schools when a staff member thought he was a gunman. Police spokeswoman Monica Munoz says officers responded to a report Friday from Marston Middle School that a man had two rifles on campus.
15 eighth-graders denied diplomas for protesting teacher layoffs at LA graduation ceremonyJune 23rd, 2009 15 who protested LA teacher cuts denied diplomasLOS ANGELES — The Los Angeles school district says 15 students were denied diplomas at their eighth-grade graduation because they protested impending teacher layoffs. The students at Liechty (LAY'-stee) Middle School in East Los Angeles turned their backs on school board President Monica Garcia during Thursday's ceremonies.
Michigan teacher spending 65 hours in tree to reward students' fundraising effortsMay 13th, 2009 Michigan teacher spends 65 hours in treeROCKFORD, Mich. — David Buth is rewarding the tree-mendous fundraising efforts of his Michigan middle school students by spending 65 hours in a perch 40 feet above ground.
Michigan teacher spending 65 hours in tree to reward students' fundraising effortsMay 13th, 2009 65 hours in tree for Michigan teacherROCKFORD, Mich. — David Buth is rewarding the tree-mendous fundraising efforts of his Michigan middle school students by spending 65 hours in a perch 40 feet above ground.
Christopher Reeve's 'Superman' suit to go on autionMay 12th, 2009 LONDON - Comic book fans will be able to get their hands on a piece of superhero history when the suit late actor Christopher Reeve wore as 'Superman' will go under the hammer in Australia. The red, blue and yellow outfit that was donned by Reeve in the 1983 film 'Superman III' is now being offered for sale in Melbourne by a private collector, reports contactmusic.com.
NYC middle school teacher barricades self inside classroom, surrenders after 3 hoursApril 24th, 2009 NYC teacher barricades self inside Bronx classroomNEW YORK — A New York City middle school teacher barricaded himself in a classroom for three hours before surrendering to police. Francisco Garabitos had been told not to return to the New Millennium Business Academy Middle School because he was under investigation for reportedly hitting a student on Thursday.
NYC middle school teacher barricaded inside classroom, police bomb squad on sceneApril 24th, 2009 NYC teacher barricaded inside Bronx classroomNEW YORK — A New York City middle school teacher has barricaded himself in a classroom. The police department bomb squad is on the scene, but officials say there is no indication that an explosive device is at the school.
Students put themselves to sleep in April 1 prankApril 2nd, 2009 TIRANA - An Albanian high-school class pulled off a dangerous April fool's prank on their teacher when all pupils took sedatives and fell asleep in class, local media reported Thursday. All 20 students of a class in a school in Saranda, on Albania's southern Adriatic coast, swallowed one or two Diazepam pills.
Teacher arrested for forcible haircut, beating of students in Uttar PradeshMarch 20th, 2009 LUCKNOW - A school teacher in Uttar Pradesh was arrested Friday for allegedly cutting the hair of 11 boys perforce and beating them up, police said. Suresh Kumar Rai of Primary School Sarya in Ballia, about 300 km from here, was arrested Friday from his residence after a complaint was registered by one of the students at the Narhi police station Thursday.
10 Delhi students injured after caning from teacherMarch 20th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Ten students of a Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) school here suffered injuries after being beaten by their teacher for making noise in the classroom. The students of Class 3 in the MCD school, New Ashok Nagar, in east Delhi were beaten with a cane by Raj Kumar Wednesday, a police officer said.
Student stabs teacher in class in ChileMarch 4th, 2009 SANTIAGO - A 16-year-old boy stabbed his teacher during an English class at a school in the Chilean capital, the police said. The incident occurred Tuesday during a morning class at the Pierre Teilhard de Chardin school in Santiago's La Florida district.
Bihar's award-winning teacher shot dead in classroomFebruary 16th, 2009 PATNA - A school teacher who had won the President's Award was shot dead while he was teaching in his classroom in a Bihar town Tuesday, the police said. Tun Bahadur, a teacher in the Marahiya primary school in Khagaria district, was murdered by unidentified men in front of students, the police said.
One in every four Madhya Pradesh schools has only one teacherFebruary 8th, 2009 BHOPAL - Single teacher-run primary and middle schools, no headmasters in most schools and, more shocking, senior secondary schools till Class 12 managed by a single teacher - welcome to Madhya Pradesh's education system. According to the latest District Information System for Education (DISE) report, as many as 25 percent schools - one in four - in Madhya Pradesh are managed by only one teacher.
Nobody offers me solo-hero films: Zayed KhanJanuary 27th, 2009 NEW DELHI - In his five-year-old Bollywood career, actor Zayed Khan has mostly starred in ensemble cast films. He now wants to take up more 'challenging' roles and also rues that no good director has approached him with solo-hero movie scripts so far.
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