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A school board member in Hackensack, New Jersey—who made headlines last year for disapproving of LGBTQ curriculum—has resigned after accidentally going to the bathroom during a Zoom meeting. Frances Cogelja didn’t know her laptop camera was still on when she took her computer with her to the bathroom during the public comments section of a board […]
A few of the children of infamous drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman have banded together to help create a makeshift school for kids in Mexico who didn’t have access to online classes, Daily Mail reports. Located in the Bicentennial Extension, just north of Culiacan, this plot of land was cleared out by three workers in […]
A Florida high school administrator was fired this week over his use of medical marijuana, which was prescribed to treat both physical and psychiatric ailments. According to the Associated Press, the Marion County School Board voted 5-0 to terminate Mike Hickman, the former dean at Belleview High School. The school district learned about his marijuana use about a year […]
A recent law school grad who was taking the bar exam in order to become a lawyer was complicated by the fact that her water broke mid-exam. She completed the test afterward. Brianna Hill, who just completed law school at Chicago’s Loyola University, took her bar exam last Monday, which lined up with her 38th […]
Some New York City public schools will have to shutter just days after they fully opened due to a spike in COVID-19 cases in certain neighborhoods. On Sunday, Mayor Bill de Blasio revealed that he will “rewind” the reopening of schools in nine neighborhoods that have seen a testing positivity rate of over three percent […]
Top White House officials pushed the CDC to minimize the dangers of COVID-19 for young people and pressured schools to reopen this summer. Two former CDC officials tell The New York Times that White House officials, like aides in Mike Pence’s office and Dr. Deborah Birx—the coordinator of the White House’s coronavirus task force—were attempting […]
Virtual learning might be the biggest obstacle for parents during this pandemic. And for one family in Louisiana, things got even more difficult as their child was suspended for having a BB gun in his room. Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry announced Friday that his office would be investigating the case of 9-year-old Ka Mauri […]
A man in France, who has his entire body and face covered in tattoos, in addition to the whites of his eyes surgically turned black, claims he’s no longer allowed to teach kindergartners after a parent complained about their child having nightmares due to his appearance, Reuters reports. Sylvain Helaine, 35, had been teaching a kindergarten class at the […]
An Ohio woman was stunned with a Taser and arrested Wednesday after she refused to wear a face mask at a junior high football game. A video of the incident has since surfaced on social media, showing school resource officer Chris Smith attempting to handcuff the woman as she sat on the bleachers. The woman, identified as […]
An all-girls reform school has shut its doors after a TikTok account helped expose its owners’ alleged abuse. According to a recent NBC News report, 29-year-old Amanda Householder launched @ExposingCircleofHope after receiving a disturbing message about what was allegedly taking place at Circle of Hope Girls’ Ranch—a religious-based boarding school owned by her parents, Boyd and Stephanie Householder. Amanda received the message via Facebook back in […]
