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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.

Officials in Suttons Bay, about 15 miles north of Traverse City, have abandoned the traditional teacher salary model which pays educators based on seniority, and adopted a system which ties compensation to performance. Is this a good idea?

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 mou

"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.