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Student Admits To Changing Grades For Years

Story: Student Admits To Changing Grades Online

This really raises two practical concerns: The fact that teachers can be oblivious to how failing students continually get passing grades, and the fact that students have far more technological intelligence than probably every teacher they encounter. Solution? Robots for teachers.

<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXgqwnXXbTvn4Zn7ks_ncEMGvLIaHVEHsNf4_AdUnA0BUrxvDH9Vb_rqEopEjcKZ1mPBVvvBvaanlfX73N6rGwfl2kwhAJKUyMlVdKxyj6GAxDBY8gz1NRogTUG1kGhOszsltxoFBCesDv/s1600-h/gradechange.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5221521941893303570" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXgqwnXXbTvn4Zn7ks_ncEMGvLIaHVEHsNf4_AdUnA0BUrxvDH9Vb_rqEopEjcKZ1mPBVvvBvaanlfX73N6rGwfl2kwhAJKUyMlVdKxyj6GAxDBY8gz1NRogTUG1kGhOszsltxoFBCesDv/s320/gradechange.JPG" style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" /></a> Story: <a href="http://www.thedenverchannel.com/irresistible/16841741/detail.html">Student Admits To Changing Grades Online</a> <div style="text-align: justify;">This really raises two practical concerns: The fact that teachers can be oblivious to how failing students continually get passing grades, and the fact that students have far more technological intelligence than probably every teacher they encounter. Solution? Robots for teachers. </div>

Teacher charged with posting Internet comments

Smells Like: internet , teachers , Tennessee , threats , trouble

Story: Bradley teacher faces firing for posting Internet comments

If you haven't figured out that posting threatening messages about your co-workers isn't the best idea, especially from a school computer, then maybe it's time to hang it up. Things obviously aren't working our right now. Are we still asking too much when we expect teachers to behave professionally?

<a href="http://www.quityourmeanness.com/images/computer_hacker.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://www.quityourmeanness.com/images/computer_hacker.jpg" style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px;" /></a>Story: <a href="http://timesfreepress.com/news/2008/jul/09/bradley-teacher-faces-firing-posting-internet-comm/">Bradley teacher faces firing for posting Internet comments</a> <div style="text-align: justify;">If you haven't figured out that posting threatening messages about your co-workers isn't the best idea, especially from a school computer, then maybe it's time to hang it up. Things obviously aren't working our right now. Are we still asking too much when we expect teachers to behave professionally? </div>

School lunch programs hit by food prices

Smells Like: budget , k12 , lunch

Story: School lunch programs hit by food prices

Essentially it's getting too expensive to feed kids at school. I'm sure the government isn't too concerned about this and it won't really be considered an issue until a few years from now when middle-income families are investigated for neglect because they couldn't afford the school lunch. Maybe then, we'll realize that certain costs in our schools will need to be subsidized to account for the fact our dollar is losing value.

<a href="http://www.flatrock.org.nz/topics/odds_and_oddities/assets/starving-boy.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://www.flatrock.org.nz/topics/odds_and_oddities/assets/starving-boy.jpg" style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 268px; height: 403px;" /></a>Story: <a href="http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5jiEc6AcqnEaNlptkata5Ah2nTueAD91QELA01">School lunch programs hit by food prices</a> <div style="text-align: justify;">Essentially it's getting too expensive to feed kids at school. I'm sure the government isn't too concerned about this and it won't really be considered an issue until a few years from now when middle-income families are investigated for neglect because they couldn't afford the school lunch. Maybe then, we'll realize that certain costs in our schools will need to be subsidized to account for the fact our dollar is losing value. </div>

Teacher arrested for identity fraud

Smells Like: Florida , law , teachers , theft

Story: First-grade teacher arrested for identity fraud

She has been working about a year with a fake teaching license. We go through all these security measures just to monitor who walks in the front doors every morning, meanwhile printing out a false certificate gets this lady hired in a heartbeat. And Florida wonders how so many sex-offenders slip through the cracks.

<a href="http://www.costumeshop.us.com/images_products/6169_small.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://www.costumeshop.us.com/images_products/6169_small.jpg" style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 236px; height: 291px;" /></a>Story: <a href="http://www.heraldtribune.com/article/20080709/BREAKING/97043330/1661">First-grade teacher arrested for identity fraud</a> <div style="text-align: justify;">She has been working about a year with a fake teaching license. We go through all these security measures just to monitor who walks in the front doors every morning, meanwhile printing out a false certificate gets this lady hired in a heartbeat. And Florida wonders how so many sex-offenders slip through the cracks. </div>

Teacher accused of sex with disabled student

Smells Like: ESE , New York , sex , teachers , trouble

Story: Teacher accused of raping disabled teen

And the list goes on... Teachers have grown old of molesting regular-education students, so it only makes sense to go after the physically and mentally challenged. I can't really think of many worse ways to take advantage of the disabled. I heard she spends her free time lurking around handicapped parking spots just licking her lips and waiting patiently.

<a href="http://detentionslip.org/" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://www.choiceshirts.com/images/PL/-9/PL-90126A-md.jpg" style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 217px; height: 193px;" /></a> Story: <a href="http://abclocal.go.com/wabc/story?section=news/local&id=6252576">Teacher accused of raping disabled teen</a> <div style="text-align: justify;">And the list goes on... Teachers have grown old of molesting regular-education students, so it only makes sense to go after the physically and mentally challenged. I can't really think of many worse ways to take advantage of the disabled. I heard she spends her free time lurking around handicapped parking spots just licking her lips and waiting patiently. </div>

Teacher Sues School After Resigning Over Howard Stern Bikini Stint

Smells Like: Connecticut , law , media , rights , sex , teachers

Story: Teacher Sues School Officials After Resigning Over Howard Stern Bikini Stint

Summary: The 2nd grade teacher appeared on Howard Stern. She won some contest for being hot and wearing a bikini (go figure), then she resigned from her job a day later. She is now claiming she was forced out of her position. The moral of the story is: teachers are not allowed to have a life outside of the school. Well they are...it just can't involve sex, drugs or alcohol. Or theft, embezzlement, assault/battery, etc. But seriously, teachers need to make an effort to keep their private lives private. Going on the most popular radio show in syndication to win $5000 might be crossing that line.

<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNVVEpJ5Owyn6B3FUTa1VEu3qx1kzfYC3N3O5ARBLWnscyDoT7nkWuLrwsoK3nGLrnRUAsDENzfa_YSQja6BLthdCkb5riMQxDIRU-ooqj18mAheJg2CZ4uS2ayAQJTevY9Ilq56Yt1IKd/s1600-h/bikini.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5220806549524699074" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNVVEpJ5Owyn6B3FUTa1VEu3qx1kzfYC3N3O5ARBLWnscyDoT7nkWuLrwsoK3nGLrnRUAsDENzfa_YSQja6BLthdCkb5riMQxDIRU-ooqj18mAheJg2CZ4uS2ayAQJTevY9Ilq56Yt1IKd/s320/bikini.JPG" style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" /></a>Story: <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,377901,00.html">Teacher Sues School Officials After Resigning Over Howard Stern Bikini Stint</a> <div style="text-align: justify;">Summary: The 2nd grade teacher appeared on Howard Stern. She won some contest for being hot and wearing a bikini (go figure), then she resigned from her job a day later. She is now claiming she was forced out of her position. The moral of the story is: teachers are not allowed to have a life outside of the school. Well they are...it just can't involve sex, drugs or alcohol. Or theft, embezzlement, assault/battery, etc. But seriously, teachers need to make an effort to keep their private lives private. Going on the most popular radio show in syndication to win $5000 might be crossing that line. </div>

School Board member charged with assaulting daughter

Smells Like: Colorado , parents , violence

Story: Jeffco House candidate charged with assaulting daughter

And we are letting people like this make policies that impact our children? I am gonna act on a hunch here, but if he's willing to slap and choke his own daughter, he is probably not too concerned with the well-being of the thousands of other students in the school district.

Retailers Start to Get Ready for School

Smells Like: dress code , k12 , marketing

Story: Retailers Start to Get Ready for School

It's almost that time of the year again. What is commonly referred to as "Back to School" shopping, but what retailers call "Our opportunity to guilt teens and parents into spending tons of cash because if they don't have our product, they forfeit any chance of self-esteem and popularity." Kohl's and JC Penny's are already having marketing wars for who can have the coolest commercials, and low-income families have already started explaining to their children that "if they don't like you for your clothes, then they aren't real friends anyway."

<a href="http://www.exclusivelyforwomenevent.com/images/home/girls_shopping.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://www.exclusivelyforwomenevent.com/images/home/girls_shopping.jpg" style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px;" /></a>Story: <a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB121538851286131129.html?mod=googlenews_wsj">Retailers Start to Get Ready for School</a> <div style="text-align: justify;">It's almost that time of the year again. What is commonly referred to as "Back to School" shopping, but what retailers call "Our opportunity to guilt teens and parents into spending tons of cash because if they don't have our product, they forfeit any chance of self-esteem and popularity." <a href="http://www.bizjournals.com/milwaukee/stories/2008/07/07/daily3.html">Kohl's</a> and <a href="http://uk.reuters.com/article/governmentFilingsNews/idUKN0233383920080707">JC Penny's</a> are already having marketing wars for who can have the coolest commercials, and low-income families have already started explaining to their children that "if they don't like you for your clothes, then they aren't real friends anyway." </div>

Secondary Schools Serve Unhealthy Foods

Smells Like: health , k12 , lunch

Story: Secondary Schools Serve Unhealthy Foods

So basically, the study concludes that after 5th grade, we give up on the general health and nutrition of students. OR...certain administrators realize that older children have "disposable income" that allows them to buy crap from vending machines all day, which in turn generates a profit for the school. If you're a kid with a dollar in your pocket, are you buying the fruit cup or the bag of Skittles?

<a href="http://keetsa.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2007/09/junk-food.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://keetsa.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2007/09/junk-food.jpg" style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 233px; height: 298px;" /></a> Story: <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/07/AR2008070700703.html">Secondary Schools Serve Unhealthy Foods</a> <div style="text-align: justify;">So basically, the study concludes that after 5th grade, we give up on the general health and nutrition of students. OR...certain administrators realize that older children have "disposable income" that allows them to buy crap from vending machines all day, which in turn generates a profit for the school. If you're a kid with a dollar in your pocket, are you buying the fruit cup or the bag of Skittles? </div>

Iowa to evaluate "Time Out" limits

Smells Like: harassment , Iowa , policy , rights

Story: State weighs limits on school 'timeouts,' restraints

Apparently some parents don't like the fact that their children spend hours and hours in locked rooms for 'time-out.' This was also in the proposed rules: "Educators can't hold a child face down or otherwise use force that hampers a child's ability to breathe." Based on the fact that they even had to have a discussion about suffocating kids, it makes me glad I don't have a child in Iowa schools. I wonder if they are allowed to hook students up to car batteries as a form of discipline? Or is that going to outlawed too?

<a href="http://www.donphin.com/images/timeout.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://www.donphin.com/images/timeout.jpg" style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 253px; height: 199px;" /></a> Story: <a href="http://www.desmoinesregister.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080630/NEWS02/806300323/1004">State weighs limits on school 'timeouts,' restraints</a> <div style="text-align: justify;">Apparently some parents don't like the fact that their children spend hours and hours in locked rooms for 'time-out.' This was also in the proposed rules: "Educators can't hold a child face down or otherwise use force that hampers a child's ability to breathe." Based on the fact that they even had to have a discussion about suffocating kids, it makes me glad I don't have a child in Iowa schools. I wonder if they are allowed to hook students up to car batteries as a form of discipline? Or is that going to outlawed too?</div>

Minn. teen charged with offering his vote on eBay

Smells Like: internet , law , Minnesota , politics , pranks

Story: Minn. teen charged with offering his vote on eBay

Had he only done a little research he would have found out that a state law was passed in 1893 forbidding this behavior. But who didn't already know that? The student was under the impression that since we have the right to vote, we ought to have the right to do what we want with that vote. Unfortunately we can't quite exercise our freedom to it's full extent.

<div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://prbipartisan.files.wordpress.com/2008/02/28262-voteordie.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://prbipartisan.files.wordpress.com/2008/02/28262-voteordie.jpg" style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 295px; height: 335px;" /></a> </div>Story: <a href="http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5jw-6LIru1-XwlPp9i5oNVHU-DMjgD91MP5JO0">Minn. teen charged with offering his vote on eBay</a> Had he only done a little research he would have found out that a state law was passed in 1893 forbidding this behavior. But who didn't already know that? The student was under the impression that since we have the right to vote, we ought to have the right to do what we want with that vote. Unfortunately we can't quite exercise our freedom to it's full extent.

Principal encourages teachers to help students cheat

Smells Like: cheating , grades , New York , principal , teachers , tests

Story: High Test Scores, and Criticism, Follow a South Bronx Principal

They probably could have gotten away with this, until everyone got cocky and decided to make their motto "The Best School in the Universe." It also doesn't help that teachers get $3000 bonuses when their students get above-average test scores.

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