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Nadia Lopez, who founded Mott Hall Bridges Academy in 2010, has been told she “shouldn’t come back” to the school, per the New York Post. The former principal, who received love from a student on Humans of New York, was met with hostility when she visited the Brooklyn school on April 13 and claims she was told […]
A teacher in Northern California was arrested this week after allegedly teaching class while under the influence of alcohol, prescription drugs, and cannabis. San Francisco-based news station KRON 4 reports Teagen Leonhart, a 46-year-old teacher at Terra Linda High School in San Rafael, California, was booked into Marin County Jail on Wednesday on charges of public intoxication […]
A 13-year-old boy is on track to earn his undergraduate degree from the University of Minnesota this year. As ABC News shares, teenager Elliott Tanner will earn his bachelors after majoring in physics with a minor in math, and currently holds a 3.78 grade point average. The teen has already been accepted into University of Minnesota’s Physics PhD program […]
Florida officials rejected dozens of textbooks for the 2022-2023 school year curriculum. Their main concern? Student “indoctrination.” According to the New York Post, the state’s department of education banned 42 of 132 math textbooks that were proposed for grades K-12. Commissioner of Education Richard Corcoran said the decision was made after officials reviewed the books and found some […]
A Michigan kindergartner brought a mixed tequila drink to class and shared the alcoholic beverage with four other students, NBC News reports. According to one parent named Dominique Zanders, the incident occurred at Grand River Academy on April 14 when the unidentified student took out a bottle of Jose Cuervo pre-mixed tequila into class, poured it into small […]
An ex-principal at a Queens, New York high school who was allegedly involved in a scam to fraudulently hike up his school’s graduation rate will still get paid. The New York Post reports that Khurshid Abdul-Mutakabbir was previously the principal for Maspeth High School—at least until July 2021, when he was prohibited from his former […]
The Camden City School District in New Jersey launched an investigation Wednesday after a handful of students from a preschool and kindergarten center were taken to the hospital after drinking from milk cartons filled with sanitizer, NBC News reports. Staff at the Early Childhood Development Center called 911 at around 9 a.m. after kids drank from the cartons […]
A California private school has apologized to parents after a video showed a preschool teacher leading her class in a political chant. “Who’s our president?” the teacher is heard saying in the footage. “Biden!” the students respond. “What do we want to do with him?” the teacher asks the 4- to 5-year-old students. “We want him out!” […]
The U.S. Department of Justice has formally announced a $127.5 million settlement with families of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School mass shooting victims. The settlement, per a report from the Associated Press, includes 40 different civil cases that were spurred by the February 2018 mass shooting in Parkland, Florida. In court documents viewed by Complex and available […]
An assistant principal at a Mississippi elementary school has landed himself in hot water after reading a humorous children’s book titled I Need a New Butt! to a class of second graders. CNN reports Toby Price, assistant principal at Gary Road Elementary School in Byram, Mississippi, was fired last week after reading the book to a Zoom class of […]
