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Politics : Socialized Education - Is there abetter way?

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From: TimF6/26/2013 2:51:50 PM
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Reach Out and Touch Someone
Charles Oliver | May. 28, 2013 9:30 am

The school board in Saint-Jerome, Quebec, says staff at a local high school should not have strip searched students to find a missing cellphone. But they did not say if anyone would be disciplined for their actions.

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Pissed Off
Charles Oliver | May. 2, 2013 6:00 am

Ron Tuitt has been fired from his job as a second-grade teacher at a Paterson, New Jersey, elementary school for urinating in bottles during class and forcing students to take the bottles to the restroom and flush the contents. Court documents claim Tuitt did this at least three times a week between 2006 and 2011. Peter Tirri, president of the city's teachers union, defended Tuitt and said he was being unfairly treated because of his popularity with students.

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Do You Know Who Else Asked Students to Write About Why Jews Are Evil?
Charles Oliver | Apr. 24, 2013 6:00 am

In New York, an Albany High School teacher, who wasn't identified by local media, has been suspended after asking students to write a letter to a Nazi official arguing that Jews are evil. The assignment was given before the class was scheduled to read "Night," a memoir by Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel. District Superintendent Marguerite Vanden Wyngaard apologized for the assignment, calling it insensitive but not malicious.

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