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Last week, The Gateway Pundit reported on her bizarre and unhinged meltdown over student loan forgiveness. The far-left union boss started jumping up and down demanding universal loan forgiveness. In an error riddled tweet on March 5, Weingarten lashed out at Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis. “DeSantis should be fixated on the cost of living issues in Fla – housing is unaffordable, home insurance even worse, but instead he is exanding gun access, defunding, public schools, & banning everything he dislikes – teachers, journalists & the vulnerable.” Weingarten’s failure to properly use punctation, grammar, and actual facts was universally mocked. With...

A left-wing Orange County Public Schools teacher has been removed from the classroom for a race-baiting skit he forced on his sixth-graders. The school district pulled Ethan Hooper from his language arts class at Howard Middle School after he posted a TikTok video supposedly about Black History Month.

A BRIT teacher accidentally killed herself with a lethal overdose after she swallowed a bag of cocaine in a first-class airport lounge while waiting to fly home to Dubai. Victoria Buchanan, 42, ingested the resealable bag when she realised she still had the drug in her possession while drinking a glass of champagne after she checked in with her luggage. The mum-of-three had earlier acquired £200 worth of the Class A drug during a family visit to the UK with her husband Mark who is a shipping company boss. She had £60 worth of cocaine left when she decided to...

NEW LONDON, CT (WFSB) -- Another arrest was made amid the ongoing investigation involving New London Public School employees. On Tuesday, police arrested 35-year-old Melissa Rodriguez, of Griswold. She's being charged with failure to report as a mandated reporter. Police said she was a teacher at Bennie Dover Jackson Middle School. The investigation began with the arrest of Corriche Gaskin, 35, who is accused of having a sexual relationship with a 16-year-old student over the course of several years. He was listed as a school 'climate specialist' at the Bennie Dover Jackson Middle School, however he was terminated from his...

School officials say a substitute teacher who told first-grade students in New Jersey that Santa Claus isn't real will not be returning to the school.

A married middle school teacher from Oklahoma has been charged with rape after she allegedly admitted to repeatedly having sex with her 15-year-old student. On Saturday, 36-year-old Keri Hoffman and her husband drove to the Clinton Police Department where the Clinton Middle School teacher confessed to carrying on an inappropriate relationship with one of her students, according to a statement from the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation. Under questioning, Hoffman told agents she used Facebook Messenger to communicate with the victim and to arrange their encounters. She reportedly admitted to having sex with the 15-year-old ‘numerous’ times since March 30,...

MAYSVILLE, Mo. (AP) _ A suspended northwest Missouri teacher has been charged with sexual misconduct with 10 teenage students. Thirty-nine-year-old Rodney Thomas, of Cameron, was charged Tuesday in DeKalb County with 20 felonies, including statutory sodomy and sexual contact with a student. No attorney is listed for him in online court records.

DNA test results from the Louisiana State Police Crime Lab has confirmed that Keavin Keith, a 30-year-old a teacher at Mathematics, Science and Arts Academy-West in Plaquemine, fathered a child of a 15-year-old student. Earlier this week, an alleged female victim told detectives with the Iberville Parish Sheriff's Office, that she had a sexual relationship with Keith that produced a son. The teenager also told authorities that she communicated with Keith via text message and on Facebook.The alleged victim also provided names of other students that may have had inappropriate relationships with Keith. The teen also told authorities that Keith...

Former Destrehan High School teacher Shelley Dufresne pleaded guilty to obscenity Thursday (April 9), admitting in court that she had sex with a 16-year-old student. The plea lets her and the student avoid a public trial and allows her to avoid a three-year prison sentence. She must spend 90 days at an inpatient mental health facility, serve three years of active probation and pay a $1,000 fine. If she fails to enter the court-approved mental health facility by the end of August, she must report to the St. Charles Parish jail Sept. 1 for a 90-day sentence, Judge Anne Simon...

A second Destrehan High School teacher has been in arrested in connection with allegations of sexual misconduct with a student. Rachel Respess, 24, of Kenner turned herself over to authorities Wednesday around 10:30 a.m., according to her attorney, Jeffrey Smith. Authorities say she and another teacher had a sexual encounter with a 16-year-old student. Respess was booked on one count of carnal knowledge of a juvenile, one count of indecent behavior, and one count of contributing to the delinquency of a minor, Smith said.Another teacher, Shelley Dufresne, 32, was arrested Tuesday. Dufresne, who lives in Montz, was booked with carnal...

RICHMOND — The arrest of a middle school teacher on suspicion of child sexual abuse this week has raised questions about the West Contra Costa Unified School District's hiring practices, because the teacher was hired while police were investigating him. Ron Guinto, 32, of Vallejo, was arrested about 7:45 a.m. Wednesday in the parking lot of Mira Vista Elementary School. The seventh-grade English and science teacher is expected to be charged with 11 counts of lewd acts on a child under 14 years old, two counts of forced oral copulation and one count of assault with intent to commit sodomy,...

THE VIDEO THAT HAS GONE VIRAL AND RESULTED IN RESIGNATION OF THE VICE PRINCIPAL

School administrator who resigned after a first alleged victim accused her in a widely watched YouTube video. Andrea Cardosa is seen in a yearbook photo. At a news conference with her attorney, the 18-year-old woman, identified only as Brianna, said she was abused as a 14-year-old student in Val Verde Unified School District by Andrea Cardosa, the former Alhambra High administrator. A claim against the school district — the first step toward a civil lawsuit — was filed Wednesday by Brianna’s attorney. Speaking at the news conference with reporters, Brianna said the district should have protected students. The alleged abuse...

<p>A Pennsylvania high school industrial arts teacher allegedly raped a 16-year-old student in a back room at the school and authorities have not ruled out the possibility of additional victims and charges in the case.</p> <p>Todd McCullough, a 28-year-old teacher at Saltsburg High School, was arraigned Thursday on rape and related charges in connection to the April 2012 incident that state police say occurred in a back room near the shop where McCullough taught. But police only learned of the alleged assault last week after another student told school officials she was hearing rumors that she was “next on the list” of McCullough’s potential targets, Trooper John Matchik said.</p>

The Messmer High School teacher accused of sexually assaulting two male students is expected in court Monday afternoon for a preliminary hearing. Megan Garland, 28, is charged with two counts of second-degree sexual assault of a child. Prosecutors say Garland was arrested after she was caught performing oral sex on a 14-year-old male student May 23 in the parking lot of Destiny Church and School in Milwaukee. The second allegation involves a 15-year-old male Messmer student.

The firing of a Montgomery County elementary school teacher for behaving inappropriately with male students was upheld Tuesday by the Maryland school board, which questioned why the teacher was not fired sooner. Daniel Picca was terminated from Silver Spring's Kemp Mill Elementary School in 2010, 17 years after an initial complaint at Rachel Carson Elementary School and 12 years after the county's child protective services found him responsible for child abuse. He received at least seven written warnings over the 17 years from three principals and two superintendents. When former Superintendent Jerry Weast transferred Picca from Rockville's Luxmanor Elementary School...

EAGLE COUNTY, Colo. -- A teacher in Eagle County was arrested on Thursday on suspicion of sexual assault on a child by one in a position of trust with a pattern of sexual abuse. Lauren Redfern, 25, is a physical education teacher at Basalt High School. Redfern is accused of having sex with a 17-year-old male student over a duration of 4 months, deputies said. She is being held without bond until she makes her first appearance before a judge.

A 12-year-old Klein ISD student is facing one month in an alternative campus as punishment for relieving himself in a water bottle after his teacher refused to let him leave class to use the rest room, according the boys' attorney. On Jan. 13, the seventh-grader repeatedly asked the teacher if he could go to the bathroom and he was denied, said Houston attorney Bill Hawkins. The teacher also told him she would write him up as truant if he left the classroom, he said. "The really outrageous part is that she told him, "I hope you pee on yourself,"" Hawkins...

A beloved Newton grade school teacher is behind bars and facing a host of local and federal child pornography charges after federal agents raided his home and found hundreds of pornographic images of children on a computer and dozens of stolen girls’ underpants, prosecutors said. The horrifying accusations come as part of a federal probe of Dreamboard, a members-only website whose members distribute and watch child pornography. The U.S. Attorney’s Office said Ettlinger was so active on the website that he obtained VIP status.

A school band teacher has been jailed for statutory rape after admitting having sex with a 16-year-old student. Devri Ann DePriest was recorded on tape confessing to the underage sex and sleeping with the High School student at least 20 times over a two month period. Police in Gallatin, Tennessee, secretly recorded the 25-year-old talking with her former lover after they launched an investigation into their relationship. The relationship with the boy, who went to the town's High School, came to light after he told his parents. DePriest has previously worked as a student teacher at both McGavock High School...