Gun-shaped strawberry tart upsets teacher, and more
A Maryland second-grader was suspended for shaping his breakfast pastry into a gun.
Gun-shaped strawberry tart upsets teacher
A Maryland second-grader was suspended for shaping his breakfast pastry into a gun. Josh Welch, 7, says he was trying to make the strawberry tart into the shape of a mountain. But a teacher thought it looked like a gun, Josh was suspended, and all parents were sent a note explaining that “a student used food to make an inappropriate gesture.”
Christian college fires teacher for premarital sex
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A California Christian college has been accused of firing a female teacher for having premarital sex, and then offering her job to her fiancé. Teacher Teri James, 29, admits she pledged not to engage in “immoral behavior,” but says in a lawsuit it was “humiliating” for the college to fire her when pregnant, and to offer her job to her fiancé, who had impregnated her.
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