Tag Archives: Teacher

Dale Irby is retiring after 40 years. And so is his yearbook outfit. For his entire career at Prestonwood Elementary in the Richardson school district in Texas, the physical education teacher wore the same disco-era shirt and dirt-colored sweater each year for his yearbook picture. At first, Irby told the Dallas Morning News, it was an accident when he wore ... Read More »

Teacher student’s baby - What has this world come to? A California teacher has been arrested and is accused of having a 16-year-old student’s baby. She was arrested two weeks after she gave birth to a baby that was allegedly fathered by a student. Laura Elizabeth Whitehurst, 28, was arrested Monday night for allegedly having unlawful sex with a 16-year-old, Redlands ... Read More »

Chicago public school teachers will go on strike as the talks with the school district over compensations, health benefits and teacher evaluations have failed. “We will be on the (picket) line,” Chicago Teachers Union President Karen Lewis said after emerging from all-day talks with district negotiators. “This is a difficult decision and one we hoped we could have avoided,” she ... Read More »

It is National Teacher Appreciation Week and May 8 is National Teacher Appreciation Day. It time to show all your hidden love and respect for your teachers. But are we doing enough? Times are changing and we have began to perceive teachers more like we view any other people we pay money to do a job.  We have failed to ... Read More »

The old saying is Food, Shelter and Clothing are the basic requirements of human beings. But in the present day scenario Education acquires the topmost and the first spot. It is believed that where Education is there the other aspects follow automatically!! Now we have to analyze what we mean by education. Is it just to read, write only or ... Read More »