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NY: Outrage As Teacher Tells Pupils Santa Isn’t Real

December 8, 2019 1:23 pm

Holiday spirits in one Brooklyn first-grade classroom got doused in ice water Monday when a teacher told his young pupils Santa Claus doesn’t exist, according to a report.

A substitute teacher at Public School 321 in Park Slope ruined Santa and the tooth fairy in one fell swoop while doing some age-inappropriate myth-busting during a lesson on “convincing,” angry parents told News 12 Brooklyn.

One first grader came home asking, “’but that’s not right, right?’” his concerned mom told News 12.

“Stuff like this, that their parents lie to them, I think is damaging to kids,” the mom said.

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NY: Teacher Who Had Sex With 2 Students Spared Jail Time

November 30, 2019 10:50 am
  • Sex was on this teacher’s syllabus.

Texas educator Lynne Anne Burge, who pleaded guilty Wednesday to having sex with two teens, won’t be spending any time in the slammer.

The 33-year-old former Muenster High School teacher claimed she was too hammered to even recall the separate trysts involving a 16-year-old and an 18-year-old.

She copped to two counts of improper relationship between educator and student, confirmed People.

A third charge of online solicitation of a minor was dismissed, according to court records.

According to an arrest warrant obtained by

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SA: Teacher Left Bleeding After 'Assault' By Grade 4 Pupil

SA: Teacher Left Bleeding After ‘Assault’ By Grade 4 Pupil

November 8, 2019 4:30 pm
A grade 4 pupil from Sakhile Primary School in Heidelberg, Gauteng, has been suspended after allegedly assaulting a teacher on Tuesday.

Gauteng basic education spokesperson Steve Mabona confirmed the incident.

“It is alleged that a grade 4 learner threw a pencil case towards an educator while she was busy at her table. Unfortunately, it hit her in the face,” said Mabona

The teacher was taken to a local hospital and discharged the same day.

“We can confirm that she is recuperating at home. Our employee wellness officials are in constant liaison with the educator for necessary support,” Mabona said.

Mabona

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Boyfriend Of Teacher Stabbed To Death In Appears In Court

Boyfriend Of Teacher Stabbed To Death In Appears In Court

October 31, 2019 12:26 am

Allison Plaatjies and her boyfriend of three years, Philip April, in happier times. April has been charged for her brutal murder.

Allison Plaatjies and her boyfriend of three years, Philip April, in happier times. April has been charged for her brutal murder.

The boyfriend of 26-year-old schoolteacher Allison Plaatjies – who was found dead in her apartment in Clanwilliam, north of Cape Town, on Sunday – appeared in the Clanwilliam magistrate’s court on Wednesday.

Philip April, a 24-year-old student teacher, was arrested after police discovered that Plaatjies had sustained multiple stab wounds.

April and Plaatjies had been dating since 2016 and met in Wellington, where they studied together at the Cape Peninsula University of Technology (CPUT)

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Man commits suicide as 2 wives engage in adulterous affairs

Teacher, 40, commits suicide in Kano

June 15, 2019 7:52 am

A 40-year-old man, Femi Oguntumi, was on Friday found hanged to a ceiling fan in his room at Dakata Quarters Kano.

Oguntumi was a staff of Karish College in Kawaji area of Kano and there has been no indication yet as to what led to the incident.

However, the police say they have launched a discreet investigation to determine whether it was suicide or not.

Abdullahi Haruna, the Police Public Relations Officer in Kano state, said in a statement on Saturday in Kano that the police received information on the incident at about 8:15 p.m on Friday.

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WAEC releases 2019 WASSCE results, withholds 180, 205

Teacher docked for allegedly giving WAEC answers to student

May 20, 2019 11:09 am

A 24 -year-old teacher, Oluwaseun Adegoke, who allegedly sent West Africa Examination Council (WAEC) answer booklet on the internet to a student, on Monday appeared in Ikeja Magistrates’ Court in Lagos.

The police charged Adegoke, who live in Orile-Agege, Lagos, is charged with unlawfully assisting a candidate in the course of an examination.

The Police Prosecutor, Insp Innocent Odugbo, told the court that the defendant committed the offence on May 17 at a private school in Agege, Lagos,

He said that the defendant scanned a WAEC answer booklet of a student while the examination was still on and sent it …

Police arraign two for allegedly stealing bags of biscuits

Court remands teacher for defiling 4 underaged pupils

May 17, 2019 8:57 am

An Ebute Meta Chief Magistrates’ Court in Lagos on Friday remanded a school teacher, Benjamin Ogba, who allegedly defiled four school girls under the age of 12.

Ogba, 44, is facing two-count charge of unlawful carnal knowledge and indecent treatment.

He, however, pleaded not guilty but was denied bail.

Read Also: Man faces jail sentence for beating wife to death over sex

The Chief Magistrate, Mrs A.O. Komolafe, remanded Ogba at the Ikoyi Prison pending legal advice from the State Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP).

Earlier, the Prosecutor, Insp. Emmanuel Silas had told the court that the defendant had committed …

UPDATED: Delta suspends teacher over Success’s viral video

March 18, 2019 2:07 pm
The Delta State government has suspended the headmistress of Okotie-Eboh Primary School 1, Sapele Local Government of the state, Mrs. Vero Igbigwe.

She was suspended following the viral video where little Success Adegor was sent home over her parents’ failure to pay her examination levies.

Igbigwe was suspended on Monday when the Commissioner for Education, Barr. Chiedu Ebie, visited the school.

The head teacher, according to the commissioner, could not explain the alleged illegal collection of examination levies from the school students.

A statement by the commissioner explained why primary and secondary education in Delta remained free, insisting the head

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BREAKING: Delta suspends teacher over Success’s viral video

March 18, 2019 1:54 pm

The Delta State government has suspended the headmistress of Okotie-Eboh Primary School 1, Sapele Local Government of the state, Mrs. Vero Igbigwe.

She was suspended following the viral video where little Success Adegor was sent home over her parents’ failure to pay her examination levies.

Igbigwe was suspended on Monday when the Delta State Commissioner for Education, Barr. Chiedu Ebie visited the school.

The head teacher, according to the commissioner, could not explain the alleged illegal collection of examination levies from the school students.

Details coming…

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