In the annals of political correctness run amok in American schools, this story -- if true -- is easily an all-timer.
Autumn seemed like dark days for Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel. The Chicago Teachers Union had declared a strike, shutting down public schools across the city. Nearly two weeks later, Emanuel had capitulated to substantial salary increases for teachers over three years.
Dallas-area elementary school teacher Vibha Marks has been charged with child abandonment after she left her one-year-old daughter in a hot car last week in the faculty parking lot of Frank Guzick Elementary School for nearly six hours.
Is a cigar sometimes just a cigar? That debate will remain unresolved, but The Daily Caller can say with confidence that a banana is definitely not always just a banana at North Marion High School near Ocala, Fla.
Seven seniors at East Carter High School in the rural northeast corner of Kentucky were prohibited from participating in commencement ceremonies because they released thousands of crickets inside the school last Thursday.
In a pretty shocking move, the Texas Education Service Center Curriculum Collaborative -- the entity that administers CSCOPE -- announced Monday that it has agreed to cease production of lesson plans for its much-criticized online curriculum system.
The 28-year-old University of Wyoming student who allegedly threatened herself with rape in a Facebook hoax in April was convicted of aggravated assault in 2005 after she brandished a gun at an employer who fired her.
Travis Lekas, 17, who attends Nimitz High School in the Dallas suburb of Irving, is accused of forcing an unnamed 15-year-old female classmate into prostitution, reports CBS DFW. Lekas allegedly kept the girl at his residence for three days, plying her with a cocktail of alcohol, pot and prescription pills.
A sex-filled romp about Hillary Clinton's life as a twenty-something nerd is apparently well on its way to fruition.
A 60-year-old teacher's aide at a Los Angeles-area high school has been charged with molesting a 16-year-old special-education student who reportedly has the mental capacity of an elementary school student.
Another month or so has gone by, and the national epidemic of teacher-student sex stories marches on unabated.
The South Carolina honors English teacher who lost his job because he threw an American flag on the floor and stomped on it in front of his students -- in three different class periods -- received a whopping $85,000 settlement.
Spring is in the air, except in places such as Arkansas, where global warming has caused the latest snowfall since records began in 1819. Or something. Anyway, the point is that college commencement season is upon us.
Last week, nearly three dozen media class students at Scripps Ranch High School in San Diego were suspended and banned from prom and commencement exercises after they allegedly used school equipment to film a twerking video, then posted it on YouTube.
Harvard University professor Niall Ferguson apologized on Saturday for his earlier suggestion that economist (and fellow Brit) John Maynard Keynes was not concerned about future generations because Keynes was gay and had no children.
At a special meeting earlier this week, the Board of Education in Readington Township, N.J., voted to maintain a controversial ban on strapless dresses at next month's annual year-end dinner formal for eighth graders.
The Daily Caller has located the one man in America who claimed to be unaware that the novel "Fifty Shades of Grey" is a tour de porn -- and sadism, and bondage.
The Wisconsin State Journal reports that members of the University of Wisconsin–Madison Kappa Alpha Theta sorority chapter allegedly disrupted a performance of "The Vagina Monologues" by banging on windows and making at least one impressively bawdy gesture last Saturday.
At Queen Creek High School on the outskirts of Phoenix, Az., the student council hatched a brilliant plan to energize students for prom week. That plan included Wednesday's campus-wide "Redneck Day."
A student at the University of Wyoming has been charged with interference with a police investigation after she allegedly posted on an anonymous social media page that she would like to engage in angry sexual intercourse with someone named "Meg Lanker Simons."
