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Homeless Mom Could Face Jail for Sending Son to Wrong School
By Mara Gay - AOL NewsEducation can be expensive, but for Tanya McDowell, ensuring her son receives a good education could cost her her freedom. The Connecticut woman has been charged with larceny and conspiracy to commit larceny for allegedly stealing $15,686 from Norwalk Public Schools for enrolling her son in an elementary school even though she didn't have a permanent address in the city. If convicted, she could face up to 20 years in prison. McDowell, 33, is homeless and single. She was arrested April 14 and told police that she lived part-time in a Norwalk shelter. She was accused of using a friend's ...
Student Punished for Outing School Secretary as Porn Star
By Ben Muessig - AOL NewsA Canadian high school student has been suspended from classes after confronting a school secretary about her extracurricular work as a porn star. A 14-year-old student at Etchemins Secondary School in Levis, Quebec, has been disciplined after asking the office worker and adult film star for her autograph. The clerical worker -- who acted under the name Samantha Ardente -- refused to give the student an autograph and reportedly urged him to keep quiet about her roles in films like "Serial Abusers 2," The Toronto Star reports. But the student did the opposite, reportedly creating a Facebook ...
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Virginia Middle School Students Suspended for Oregano Possession
By Steven Hoffer - AOL NewsA few Virginia parents would probably like to know what local school administrators are smoking. Seventh-grader Adam Grass and three other students at Hickory Middle School in Chesapeake, Va., were suspended last week after being caught with what teachers initially thought was a bag of marijuana but turned out to be a stash of oregano, The Virginian-Pilot reports. Unfortunately for the disciplined boys, now facing expulsion, there isn't much of a difference between Italian herbs and Mary Jane, at least in the state's eyes. According to school board member Christie Craig, Virginia has a ...
Teacher Resigns After Student Finds Out About Her Porn Star Past
By Ben Muessig - AOL NewsIt's the history lesson one Missouri teacher hoped she would never have to cover. St. Louis science teacher Tera Myers stepped down Friday after a student confronted her about her past working as an actress in X-rated films. The 38-year-old Parkway North High School educator -- who starred in pornographic videos in the 1990s under the name Rikki Andersin -- has been placed on administrative leave, according to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. She will be paid through the rest of the school year but will not teach classes or return to her post next year. Myers decided to resign "out of ...
A Tale of Two Women at a Crossroads in Haiti
By Emily Troutman - AOL NewsPORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti -- Mirlande Manigat wants to be the president of Haiti. She is 70 years old. She is a professor, and she went to the Sorbonne. Alexandra Delophene wants to go to school. She is 19 years old. She is a mother, and she had the baby when she was 17. Last week, Manigat began the second round of her campaign in the small ghetto of Solino. As she rounded the corner, on her way to the stage, she passed by Alexandra's house. The teenager reached into the crowd. "I told her I want to go to school and my mom can't afford it. The security agents were pushing on me, and I grabbed ...
Cops: Mom Showed Breasts in School in Cleavage Fight
By Ben Muessig - AOL NewsThis kind of show-and-tell isn't allowed in schools. Police in Florida arrested a mother who allegedly exposed her breasts inside her child's school during an argument with another woman who she believed was showing too much cleavage. Law enforcement officials in Manatee County say Laura Campanello was visiting Bayshore High School at around 11:20 a.m. Monday when she noticed something amiss. And that something was another mother's chest, according to the Bradenton Herald. ...
Robot Lets Sick Teen Attend High School Virtually
By Mara Gay - AOL NewsLyndon Baty is too sick to set foot in the classroom, but the Texas teen says he's found the next best thing: a robot that allows him to attend high school virtually. Lyndon, 15, suffers from kidney disease and has been home-bound since last year, when his body rejected a transplant. But now, a robot is helping him keep up with his fellow students -- and feel a little less lonely -- by attending classes for him at Knox City High School in Knox City, Texas. "It's the most wonderful thing that's happened to me since my transplant," he told NBC's "Today" show. With the teen at the controls, the ...
Ohio Gov. Asked to Pardon Mom Jailed in School Enrollment Fraud
By Hugh Collins - AOL NewsThe governor of Ohio has received 165,000 petition signatures asking him to pardon Kelley Williams-Bolar, the woman who spent 10 days in jail for fraudulently enrolling her children in a more desirable school district. Three nonprofit groups -- ColorofChange.org, Change.org and MomsRising.org -- delivered the petition to Gov. John Kasich's office Monday, according to The Columbus Dispatch. The groups want Kasich to pardon Williams-Bolar, 40, whose felony convictions could disqualify her from becoming a school teacher. Akron Beacon Journal / MCT Summit County ...
Century-Old Time Capsule Unearthed in San Francisco [VIDEO]
By Ben Muessig - AOL NewsSometimes students don't need to hit the books to learn history. Kids at San Francisco's Cleveland Elementary School experienced a blast from the past last week when a school volunteer discovered a time capsule left behind by students 100 years ago. While researching the history of the century-old school, Cleveland alum John Weidinger found a press clipping from 1910 that mentioned a copper box tucked inside a wall behind the cornerstone when the school was constructed, according to SFGate.com. Workers located the time capsule and opened it on Wednesday in front of a big crowd of ...
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