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Fort Worth, Texas high school English teacher Georgia Clark has been fired from her job after sending out tweets asking for Donald Trump to aid in “investigating and removing the illegals,” BuzzFeed News reports. She was fired on Tuesday after the board of the Fort Worth Independent School District unanimously voted to terminate Clark’s contract. A Texas high school teacher who thought […]
A principal in Louisiana has resigned after being arrested at a Washington, DC strip club. Holy Family Principal Michael Comeau was chaperoning a middle school trip to the nation’s capital when he was arrested at Archibald’s Gentlemen’s Club in Northwest DC. Police were called to the club, just blocks from the White House, to found […]
A school principal in West Virginia allegedly plagiarized Ashton Kutcher during his graduation speech on May 23, however the move went largely unnoticed until one student published side-by-side comparisons of her principle’s performance and the actor’s 2013 Teen Choice Awards speech. Abby Smith, a graduate of Parkersburg High School, noticed that Principal Kenny DeMoss’ address sounded vaguely familiar. […]
Matthew McConaughey has finally picked up his high school diploma three decades after graduating from Longview High School in Texas. The Academy Award-winning actor, who graduated in 1988, also gave the commencement speech at this year’s graduation, which took place at Lobo Stadium on Friday. “Thirty-one years ago, I was you, a graduating Longview Lobo,” McConaughey said, per Longview News […]
The College Board is looking to level the playing field between students of different socioeconomic backgrounds by including an adversity score along with their traditional SAT scores. The nonprofit behind the test that weighs heavily on many college admissions said that they wanted to create a way to factor in accomplishments outside of scholarships. They […]
An 88-year-woman in British Columbia has been waving to schoolchildren from her window for the past 12 years, and now that she’s moving into an assisted living home, hundreds of the children who knew her want to say goodbye. Tinney Davidson has lived in Comox since 2007, when she and her husband bought a house near Highland Secondary […]
Many teachers encounter the fine line between coming across as relatable with their students, and turning into a real-life version of that Steve Buscemi “How do you do, fellow kids” meme. With instructors forced to deal with the youth’s ever-changing vocabulary, Twitter user @mewtailv2 shared a list titled the “Callahan’s Generation Z Dictionary” created by their teacher featuring slang […]
An Alabama teen who died by suicide after being bullied for being gay is being remembered as a positive force in his community. Meanwhile, a regional sheriff’s deputy is now on leave after using news of the tragic death to publicly spew homophobia. Nigel Shelby died by suicide on April 18 at 15 years old, […]
High school plays, except for the ones depicted in movies like Rushmore, aren’t exactly known for their production values. All the dry adaptions of Shakespeare’s many classics must get boring for all the children’s parents after some time. A New Jersey high school decided to switch it up by bringing Ridley Scott’s 1979 classic, Alien, to […]
Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School head football coach Willis May is resigning, a little more than a year after 17 people were shot and killed by gunman Nikolas Cruz. May admits that his resignation is due in large part to needing a change for his personal health as he continues to deal with the aftermath of the February 14 shooting. May has struggled […]
