Teacher Fired For Letting Kindergarteners Touch And Taste Her Blood
Was it a game of Show and tell? What was this teacher thinking?
Was it a game of Show and tell? What was this teacher thinking?
Do you ever wonder why people choose the field of work that they do? Usually it is because they have a love or a passion for that type of work. This case is a little stranger. Maria C. Waltherr-Willard is a language teacher who suffers from pedophobia, which means she is afraid of young children. Seems like someone wouldf have a difficult time being a teacher if they suffered from something like that, doesn't it? Maria suffers from anxiety, chest pains and vomiting when she is in the company of little children. So, why did she choose to be a teacher?
Here's one from the "Are you kidding me?" file. Maria Waltherr-Willard of Greenhills, Ohio is a 61-year-old Spanish teacher in Ohio. And she's suing the Mariemont school district for discriminating against her disability. Her disability, are you ready for this one... A FEAR OF CHILDREN.
A Chicago high school student showing off his dance moves in the cafeteria gets a challenge from an unlikely contender. The Dean of students.
Parijat Saha, a teacher in West Bengal, India got a very big surprise at a recent visit to the ATM. Saha, who earns a salary of 35,000 rupees or about $700 a month, had expected his account balance to be around $200. To his shock, it was suddenly 490 BILLION Rupees or about 9.8 billion U.S. dollars. What Saha did next was a surprise to me.
A Florida teacher took discipline to a whole new (read: bizarre) level last week when she reportedly taped her chatty student's mouth shut with packing tape.
13-year-old seventh grader Jazlyn Freel claims the incident took place during a routine science class.
"She asked me to stop talking, and then a couple minutes went by, and I started to talk again, and she came to me and put it on my mouth," she said. "I had to cough, so I took the first piece off, so she went into her desk, and she took another piece out, and she put it on my mouth again."
"Disengaged, lazy whiners." Just one of the numerous phrases 30 year-old English teacher Natalie Munroe used to describe her students in her personal blog.
Supporters have started a Facebook page, and applaud the suburban Philadelphia for her courage for telling it like it is, and compare her words to tough love. Others call it verbal abuse.