Cathedral Prep High School, an all-male Catholic high school in Erie, PA, was planning on putting on Urinetown: The Musical. But the Catholic Bishop of Erie, Donald Trautman, objected to the title.
Trautman didn’t object to the play itself, so the kids are still being allowed to perform Urinetown. They just can’t call it [...]
Sure, kids are wrong sometimes. But read the letter below. The teacher makes an issue out of a student correcting him. And yes, it could be a fake but I couldn’t find it on Snopes.
A Florida State researcher, Doron Nof, has published that a rare ice patch could account for the story of Jesus walking on water. The theory is that every 12,000 years or so the conditions are just right for ice to form in northern Israel, and Jesus was actually standing on one of these patches [...]
This news certainly does not fit in with the normal theme of this site. While I enjoy pointing out the stupidity abound in the world, occassionally something good comes up that I want to share, and since more people read this blog than my others I figured I should put this here.
Standford University announced [...]
The Houston Independent School District board voted 9-0 in approval of a plan that would allow teachers to earn up to $3,000 in bonuses based on their student performance. While this looks like a good plan, it has some serious flaws.
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A Limpopo teacher lost his bail on Monday when he tried to bribe his sodomy victim a second time.
The as-yet unnamed teacher teaches at the high school where his victim attends. Fellow teachers became suspicious of the 40-year-old teacher when the 15-year-old received almost perfect marks on his exams. The teenager [...]
Jasper County Middle School student Mack Bedor is in trouble for stealing school property. Bedor found a video camera in one of the school bathrooms and took it home to show to his mother.
Marshall Junior High in Clovis, NM, was on lockdown last week after someone saw a kid walking in with a large object wrapped in foil.
Nearby streets were closed and police officers took to the rooftops.
When the situation ended several hours later Michael Morrissey, an eigth grader at the school, was found to be [...]
For the third year motivational speaker William Fried came and talked with 8th graders at Jane Lathrop Stanford Middle School. Fried gave a 55-minute presentation titled “The Secret of a Happy Life” at the school, just as he has the two previous years. And, like the past two years, Fried included exotic dancing [...]
Two engineers at the University of Vermont must have had some free time on their hands. They determined that an SUV with a Christmas tree strapped on top has 26 percent more aerodynamic drag than a SUV without a tree.
But, they didn’t stop there. Based on the energy density of gasoline, [...]