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Black teacher allegedly calls Haitian student 'little chocolate boy'

By theGrio

2:26 PM on 02/07/2012

MIAMI - A Pompano Beach high school teacher who's previously faced discipline for inappropriate conduct towards students is once again in hot water after she allegedly called a Haitian student 'little chocolate boy'...
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Ex-teacher Luis Rivera apologizes for slavery math lesson

By theGrio

3:20 PM on 01/20/2012

LAWRENCEVILLE, Ga. (AP) - The suburban Atlanta teacher who resigned after an investigation found students were given math homework with word problems about slavery has apologized...
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Teacher resigns over slavery math lesson

By theGrio

12:45 PM on 01/19/2012

LAWRENCEVILLE, Georgia (AP) - A spokeswoman says a suburban Atlanta teacher has resigned after an investigation found third-grade students being assigned math homework with word problems about slavery...
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High school teacher faces unemployment over anti-gay Facebook comments

By theGrio

12:26 PM on 01/13/2012

Tenure charges were formally filed against high school English teacher Viki Knox, 50, last month after she was placed on leave in September for words her school board argues to be potentially harmful to their students...
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Sex offender caught giving piano lessons to kids

By Kunbi Tinuoye

1:18 PM on 12/14/2011

theGRIO REPORT - A registered sex offender, who had for years been giving piano lessons to children in metro Atlanta, has been jailed for violating his probation...
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Girl, 10, attacks teacher who took her Halloween candy

By theGrio

10:36 AM on 11/15/2011

MIAMI - The 10-year-old Orlando girl, whose name is being withheld because of her age, was arrested last Tuesday after an Orange County Sheriff's Office deputy was called to the girl's classroom at Zellwood Elementary School...
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Teacher fired for anti-Semitic remarks at 'Occupy LA'

By theGrio

4:25 PM on 10/19/2011

A substitute teacher no longer has a job with the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) after footage of her anti-Semitic views surfaced...
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NJ teacher's husband defends her comments on gays

By theGrio

12:29 PM on 10/19/2011

UNION TOWNSHIP, N.J. (AP) - The husband of a New Jersey high school teacher accused of anti-gay postings on her Facebook page is defending his wife's comments...
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NJ teacher criticized for Facebook remarks on gays

By theGrio

5:10 PM on 10/13/2011

UNION TOWNSHIP, N.J. (AP) - Attorney John Paragano saw posts by teacher Viki Knox before they were removed and alerted the Union Township school district, he told The Star-Ledger of Newark...
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Oprah to teach high school class in the fall

By theGrio

12:32 PM on 07/06/2011

Oprah Winfrey is back in the USA after spending time with her "girls" at the school she opened in South Africa, Miss O will be returning soon in the role of teacher...
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Broncos' Bruton spending the lockout as a substitute teacher

By theGrio

1:38 PM on 05/24/2011

First called to teach second-grade classes on March 12, Bruton moved to Miamisburg High School in Dayton, Ohio, to continue his teaching journey...
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Teacher photographs girl's hairstyle, mocks her on Facebook

By theGrio

2:05 PM on 04/01/2011

For picture day last week, 7-year-old Ukailya Lofton begged her mother, Lucinda Williams, to put Jolly Rancher candies at the ends of her braids after she saw the style in a magazine.
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Teacher accused of attacking elderly couple

By theGrio

4:31 PM on 02/25/2011

DALLAS - Brenda Stafford faces charges of assaulting an elderly couple in an Arlington mall after a confrontation over a chair allegedly triggered her temper...
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Retired school teacher killed in Egyptian bus crash

By theGrio

11:02 AM on 12/28/2010

VIDEO - Among those killed was Jean Byrd of San Diego, a retired San Diego Unified schoolteacher who taught for years at Silvergate Elementary...
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Oklahoma City schools want to stop hip-hop curriculum

By theGrio

3:14 PM on 10/04/2010

Known as Flocabulary, the program is a music-based educational tool that uses raps, rhythms and rhymes to help students learn...
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Missing bipolar teacher may be living in Vegas

By theGrio

3:34 PM on 07/29/2010

Family and friends of the 25-year-old teacher who suffers from bipolar disorder have had no idea where she could have gone, until - potentially - now...
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Teacher apologizes for Obama assassination lesson

By theGrio

5:52 PM on 05/28/2010

VIDEO - An Alabama high school teacher who taught a teaching example of shooting off the president's ear has now apologized for his quote "error in judgment"...
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Disgraced 'KKK teacher' is back in the classroom

By theGrio

5:56 PM on 05/26/2010

VIDEO - Catherine Ariemma was placed on administrative leave after she escorted students in Ku Klux Klan costumes through the school during lunchtime...
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Teacher on leave for letting students wear KKK outfits

By theGrio

4:21 PM on 05/25/2010

ATLANTA (AP) - A North Georgia teacher is on administrative leave and could lose her job after she allowed four students to don mock Ku Klux Klan outfits for a final project...
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Ala. teacher uses Obama assassination in geometry

By theGrio

2:44 PM on 05/18/2010

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) - The Secret Service questioned an Alabama teacher after school officials said he used an hypothetical example of shooting at the president to teach geometric angles...
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