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An Atlanta-area teacher was fired after reading a children’s book featuring a nonbinary character to her fifth-grade class. In a 4-3 decision last week, the Cobb County School Board fired Katie Rinderle after she read My Shadow Is Purple to her class.

Lake McHenry County Scanner.Perteet, a Waukegan resident who is married and has four children, has been charged with three counts of armed robbery and kidnapping with a firearm, plus one count of carjacking, for his alleged involvement in three separate attacks against men on Chicago’s West Side last summer.According to a news release from the Chicago Police Department, Perteet was arrested by members of the Vehicular Hijacking Task Force on March 26 in the 3000 block of South Sacramento Ave., in Chicago’s Little Village neighborhood. He was identified by victims as the man who allegedly held them against their will and robbed them at gunpoint.The three victims included:All three crimes took place in the city’s North Lawndale neighborhood.Prosecutors claim that Perteet used Grindr to track down the victims and obtain their addresses under the guise of arranging a hookup.

Anne Frank’s Diary: The Graphic Adaptation, an illustrated adaptation of Frank’s indispensable, historic book The Diary of a Young Girl. In the passage, the then-teenaged author and victim of the Holocaust described her genitals and attraction to other females.Frank, a German-born Jewish teenager who died in 1945, just months before Germany’s defeat in World War II, wrote the diary during a two-year time period when she and her family were in hiding to avoid being sent to Nazi death camps, remaining ensconced in a secret annex above the Amsterdam warehouse for the company that her father had owned.The graphic novel, which hews closely to the text of the unedited, original version of Diary, contains portions of Frank’s diary that had previously been edited out of the book’s 1952 English edition, but were restored in the book’s 1989 republication, reports The Dallas Morning News.Those censored sections included passages where Frank wrote about her understanding of male and female genitalia — including the development of her own body during puberty — and where she expressed feelings of attraction toward a female friend.Pulling from those passages, the graphic novel adaptation depicts Frank asking a female friend if she’d feel comfortable exposing their breasts to each other, with her friend declining.

A middle school teacher in Wisconsin has been accused of sexually assaulting an eighth-grade student — and buying him a gun for his 14th birthday. Wait, what the F**K?!?!

Broadcaster Nicky Campbell has told an inquiry of sexual abuse he endured at Edinburgh Academy as he compared a teacher to Jimmy Savile. Mr Campbell, 62, attended the fee-paying schoo, between 1966 and 1978, from the ages of five to 17.

In his twenties, Jake Lancaster would spend half-term making coffees on film sets. A teacher at the time, he had dreams of making it big in Hollywood.

Emmerdale star Adele Silva starred as saucy Kelly Windsor on the soap for 19 years, but has since turned her back on her star studded past. Adele, now 43, was in her teens when she was first cast back in 1993 - and made a big splash with viewers as she got older. She was branded one of TV’s sexiest stars and was listed on FHM mag’s 100 sexiest women list for years in a row.

Idaho Tribune accused Lauritzen of being a “left-wing activist” who “follows drag queens on social media, promotes LGBT events, promotes transgenderism, Black Lives Matter, and is active in local politics, promoting liberal ideology.”The outlet also criticized her for liking posts about “social and emotional learning” — a style of learning which has become a bogeyman among conservatives for promoting self-awareness, decision-making, and interpersonal skills — which it classified as “left-wing ideology.”The conservative website Action Idaho went further, speculating that she was pushing a pro-LGBTQ agenda on her students despite the presence of a school district policy restricting teachers from providing instruction or discussion of sexuality or sexual orientation.“Would Lauritzen be happy to cultivate transgender ideologies among your children? Probably,” Idaho Action wrote. “She is getting her PHD in advanced education at University of Idaho, no doubt learning all the latest trends in queer theory and social and emotional learning.”But the press led parents in her rural community in western Idaho to begin emailing her and accusing her of including inappropriate content in her lessons.

back-to-school shopping, don't forget the team captain. We've put together a list of the best gifts you can give your teacher to start the new semester with a «thank you.» There are plenty of ways you can celebrate the teacher who's gone above and beyond to deliver a lesson plan that wows and maintains your child's interest throughout the entire school year.

For 20-somethings a chance to appear on Love Island likely feels like the opportunity of a lifetime to kickstart your social media influencing career, launch a fashion line or attend the glitziest of events. As it turns out though, fame isn't always what it's cracked up to be and for some contestants, life really does goes back to normal. Mostly the ones who are dumped from the island early on, are sadly forgotten - can you remember who went first in this summer's series? It was Bedford-boy George Fensom by the way, but still.

Elizabeth Smart-produced film,, because — in an oddly satisfying way — making the movie has been part of her healing process and, soon, it'll provide closure after all these years.«It has,» Thomas tells ET's Cassie DiLaura in a joint interview with Smart when asked if putting the film together has been part of her healing process. «It's given me a little bit of closure, actually. And being able to know that this is no longer happening in my life and being able to look back, you know, knowing that this made me stronger.»Thomas, who met her now-husband while working at a seafood restaurant, says life for her now is at a slower pace, much of which she enjoys with Dirla.

A teacher with two decades of experience has been ‘indefinitely’ banned from the profession for submitting her own work for a student's GCSE geography assessment.

Two men will appear in court today charged with the murder of a former Fettes College teacher.

A Vale of Leven Academy teacher is set to take on a gruelling challenge in support of her terminally ill dad.

Planned strikes for teachers all across England have been called off after the union accepted a 6.5 per cent pay rise.

A sex shame teacher struck off over her affair with a pupil has bagged public funding to set up a support group for fellow criminals.

After 43 years teaching Highland dancing in Scone, Margaret Nicoll is hanging up her black laced pumps.

Hulk Hogan, real name Terry Gene Bollea, is preparing to tie the knot for the third time, after announcing his engagement to yoga instructor Sky Daily after just one year of dating.The wresting pro, 69, began dating Sky early last year after finalising his divorce from Jennifer McDaniel. He announced both his new relationship and his divorce on Twitter, writing: "Yo Maniacs just for the record, the Facebook and Instagram posts are of me and my girlfriend Sky, I am officially divorced, sorry I thought everyone already knew, love my Maniacs4Life." Hulk announced his engagement to TMZ, revealing that he proposed to Sky on her birthday at a restaurant in Tampa, Florida.

Benjamin Field's defence relied upon admitting a string of reprehensible things. By doing so he hoped to get off with his most heinous crime - the murder of former Manchester Grammar School teacher Peter Farquhar.

A teacher has told of her "heartbreak" at wanting to return a £75 gift from her pupils because she is struggling to pay her bills.

Dozens of heartfelt tributes have been paid for a “remarkable” university lecturer after she tragically lost her bowel cancer battle. Dr Johanna Green was hailed an “exceptional teacher, scholar, and friend” following her death at the The Prince & Princess of Wales Hospice in Glasgow on Thursday.

, the new true-crime, «ripped from the headlines» movie starring Michael Fishman and Summer Howell. Ahead of its August debut, ET has the exclusive trailer for the project, which chronicles the harrowing story of a young girl who was kidnapped by a trusted teacher that led to a nationwide manhunt. Only 15 years old at the time, Thomas was first abducted by her mentor-turned-abuser Tad Cummins in 2017, before the two spent 39 days on the run as they traveled 1900 miles from her hometown of Culleoka, Tennessee, to a remote cabin in Northern California. After the two made headlines across the country, the two were found, with Cummins arrested and eventually pleading guilty to charges related to transporting a minor across state lines with intent to engage in criminal sexual activities and obstruction of justice.Her perpetrator was sentenced to 20 years in prison in 2019, with Thomas telling the court at the time «the effects have been devastating and permanent, and they are not over.»  Now, years later, Lifetime is re-teaming with activist and executive producer Elizabeth Smart for an authorized retelling of Thomas' story.

tweeting about her feelings over the song ban before speaking with her supervisors and bringing negative attention to the school district after her tweets went viral.“Ms. Tempel deliberately brought negative attention to the school district because she disagreed with the decision as opposed to following protocol and procedure and I believe that behavior is intolerable,” said Waukesha School District Superintendent James Sebert, who previously recommended in May that the Board of Education terminate Tempel.Tempel’s tweets criticized the school district for banning her students from singing “Rainbowland” at their school concert.While there are no explicitly gay or LGBTQ-related lyrics in the song, the lyrics speak of a world where everyone is accepted for who they are.

A teenager has been arrested after a male teacher was stabbed at a high school in Gloucestershire.

A teenage boy has been arrested after reports a teacher was allegedly stabbed by a pupil at a school.

A former teacher at Kanye West’s Donda Academy in California has filed a lawsuit claiming that he was fired after raising concerns about safety issues at the school, as well as making complaints regarding changes to his employment terms. Among the list of allegations made in the legal filing is that windows in the school were not glazed because West “did not like glass”.Isaiah Meadows – who was also an assistant principal at the academy – filed his complaint with the Los Angeles County Superior Court last week.According to Law360, he claims that as well as having no proper windows – which meant that a skylight had no glass covering so that water fell directly into the school – there were also serious issues with the building’s wiring, which at one point led to an electrical fire.For several months, he adds, the school had no electricity, with lessons lit by flood lamps powered by a generator.

TV star Nicky Campbell has urged prosecutors to take action against a former teacher accused of brutalising him as a boy.

Jen Faison thought she had found her happy ending with her college sweetheart, a beloved high school teacher named Spencer Herron.

Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny.”Mohammed Kamel, 46, was “one of the bad guys” who had the honor of being struck with a booze bottle by none other than “Fleabag” actress Phoebe Waller-Bridge.And the six-week stint, he revealed, earned him a bigger paycheck than his role as an educator.“What you make in a month teaching, you do that in a week or five days of acting,” Kamal, who comes from “humble beginnings,” told Metro UK. “It’s four times or five times as good.

A teacher who dodged work for 20 years - and only appeared for four years of lessons in 24 years - had an interesting reply for journalists keen to hear her side of the story.

A rogue teacher who avoided doing any actual work for 20 years has finally been sacked. Cinzio Paolina De Lio was branded ‘the worst employee in Italy’ by her former secondary school.

William Earl Jimmy Juliano’s debut novel, “Dead Eleven,” has an unusual backstory. The book, out Tuesday, is a spooky tale of a remote island where inhabitants are obsessed with ’90s nostalgia, which earned a coveted jacket blurb from “Goosebumps” guru R.

on Monday by his daughter, Catherine Palter.Palter is best known for his role in James Cameron's in which he played Isidor Straus, the real-life business magnate and co-owner of Macy's who died aboard the ship with his wife, Ida — a role played by Elsa Raven, who died in November 2020.Notably, the Strauses — who were among the wealthiest passengers to die aboard Titanic — are the great-great-grandparents of Wendy Rush, the wife of OceanGate Expeditions CEO Stockton Rush, who died aboard the Titan submersible last week, during a dive to the Titanic wreckage.Apart from his role in, Palter had small roles in a slew of TV shows and films throughout his long acting career, which began in 1967. He frequently played judges in different projects, including First Monday in October, and others.He largely retired from film and TV acting after his role in  but was an acclaimed instructor at CalArts School of Theater, where he worked as a mentor, teacher and director from 1971 until his retirement in 2013.Among his thousands of past students, Palter worked with and mentored celebrated actors including alum Cecily Strong and Oscar nominees Don Cheadle and Ed Harris.Palter — whose wife of 64 years, Nancy Vawter, died in November 2020 — is survived by their daughter, as well as three grandchildren.

Broadcaster Nicky Campbell has hit out at delays in bringing an alleged abuser at his former school to justice while he lives in luxury.

Michael Schneider Variety Editor at Large Tyler James Williams has experienced several different kinds of fandom since childhood, starting with films like “Unaccompanied Minors,” and then his starring role in “Everybody Hates Chris,” and even a stint on “The Walking Dead.” But there’s nothing that compares to the passionate audience of teachers who have gravitated his latest series, ABC’s hit comedy “Abbott Elementary.” On this episode, Williams talks about the show’s resonance, his experience as a child actor, where his character’s relationship with Quinta Brunson’s character might be heading and so much more. Listen below! “It’s such a blessing that they feel so represented by it,” Williams tells Variety‘s Awards Circuit podcast. “Now I feel like, if there’s a teacher within ten blocks of me, I’m going to know about it. They’re going to say something. I didn’t realize how much this show resonated with them until going back out into the world. And seeing how willing they are to give all of the love towards us. It’s really been one of the more beautiful experiences of my career.”

As the residents of Albert Square continued to reel on Wednesday following the news of Nish Panesar’s arrest, there was more drama afoot for another family aside from the Panesar’s, when Stacey Slater found herself in a sticky situation with daughter Lily. As regular viewers will know, Stacey has been struggling to afford her bills in recent weeks, which meant that for pregnant daughter Lily’s upcoming birthday, she was having to cut back on any chance of a lavish or big present for the teen.The news came as somewhat of a blow to Lily, who had begged her mum to buy her a pair of new trainers to mark the special occasion.