Teacher for life turned into teacher for wife. A couple from Michigan is making headlines not only for their 25-year-age gap but also because the older spouse taught the younger in 2004 as a seventh-grader. The two married women, Monica Foster (then Ketchum), 32, and wife Michelle Foster, 57, have gotten some strange looks during … Read more
This mom is ready to go to the Mat-tresses. One frustrated parent is calling out her daughter’s daycare teacher after they assigned her precious peanut a weird nickname the family has never used. The miffed mama recently turned to Reddit to anonymously ask for advice on how to call out the offending parties — without … Read more
School has changed a lot since the old days, thankfully. For one thing, kids are encouraged to move as much as possible – especially to give them all a well-earned break during lessons. Schools now have programs like “crunch and sip” and “brain break” to let primary school students get up, “shake it off” and refuel with a … Read more
Seven in 10 high school teachers agree that a one-size-fits-all education, with the same curriculum and teaching methods for all students, is a thing of the past. The traditional classroom model seems to require a shift as the majority (67%) prefers to have fewer than 20 students in a classroom, according to a survey of … Read more
Talk about no child left behind. Eddie McCarthy, a math teacher at Whitmer High School in Toledo, Ohio, is preparing to donate a kidney to his student, Roman McCormick. McCormick, a 15-year-old sophomore, was born with branchiootorenal/branchiootic syndrome. The rare genetic condition can affect the growth and development of the neck (branchio-), ears (oto-) and … Read more
Where there’s a primary school concert, there’s an audience full of beaming, excited adults with phones at the ready. And there’s most likely some politics in that hall, too. Who got the lead role? Is that kid the narrator because she’s the best reader? Who’s Snow White, and who got cast as one of the seven dwarves? … Read more
He’s living out his destiny, err, dreams. Despite having a “small role,” a London teacher got the opportunity of a lifetime, landing a gig as an actor in the new film “Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny.” Mohammed Kamel, 46, was “one of the bad guys” who had the honor of being struck with … Read more
It was a match made in paradise. A Colorado woman says her high school teacher set her up with her own brother-in-law ahead of her vacation to Costa Rica. Shortly before Ellie Gervais, 25, was due to travel to the Central American country in September 2021, she was surprised to run into her former humanities … Read more
A Queensland, Australia mom has slammed a teacher for refusing to open a snack in her son’s lunchbox because she deemed it “unhealthy”. Ashley Griffiths, known on TikTok as Ashy Anne, shared the exchange with her 330,000 followers in a viral video. “Yesterday, I sent my kid to school with a little individually wrapped slice … Read more
An important course is missing from school education: bromance 101. A teacher and author argues that schools should provide “lessons in bromance” to help focus on the mental health crisis among boys. Matt Pinkett, an English teacher who disputes the idea of “toxic masculinity,” believes that teenage boys should be exposed to good models for … Read more
In a viral TikTok video that has received more than 1.5 million views, a Bay Area, California, kindergarten teacher claims to have hatched chicks from eggs she bought from a Trader Joe’s grocery store. “Did you know you could hatch eggs from Trader Joes?” Alice Bowie asks her viewers under the handle, @aliceintkland. “I bought these fertile … Read more
Some people got a little too hot for teacher. A dance-loving educator has reportedly been fired from her position for performing sexy dances with her students and posting videos on TikTok. Cibelly Ferreira, who is Brazilian, has taught English all around the world, with her most recent class being taught at an unnamed language school, … Read more
A mom took to TikTok to reveal that she was ‘snack shamed’ by her three-year-old’s preschool teacher after she packed chips in his lunchbox. In the clip, which now has 568k views, mom-of-two Megan shared the “passive-aggressive” note that was written on her son’s trash and asked her audience what they would do in this situation. She then … Read more
One school teacher created her own fairy tale ending by becoming a full-time princess. Olivia Cutforth decided to quit her job as a teacher in 2021 to pursue her career as a princess for children’s parties and corporate events. The 27-year-old from Peterborough, in England, had dreamed of starting her own “princess-ing” business after working … Read more
Every Taylor Swift fan in Australia is currently feeling concert anxiety as the date for her Eras tour ticket sales approaches. And any kid not old enough to buy their own ticket will be praying their adult comes through for them. But one mom did even better this week, by not only securing tickets for first grader, … Read more
The parents of a boy with autism, ADHD and anxiety are slamming the teachers at his school for apparently mocking their son in a video. Leah and Vince, from Melbourne, said the “disgusting” video that was shown to the entire school staff and posted on YouTube showed pictures of their son, Max, as well as … Read more
A former “teacher’s pet” who got engaged to her favorite high school teacher over a decade later says she and her fiancée are targeted by trolls who disapprove of their relationship. Monica Ketchum, 31, from Big Rapids, Michigan, decided to search for her favorite school teacher, Michelle Foster, on Facebook to see how she was. … Read more
Rebecca thought she deserved ‘parent of the year‘ after the educational trip she took her daughter on recently. “A couple of weeks ago, we took Elsa to the museums in Cambridge,” the UK mum explained on the Family Lowdown Tips & Ideas Facebook page. “She is doing about Romans at school so we visited The Museum … Read more
Caroline Carlson knew exactly which special person she wanted to dress up as for her school’s “Superhero Day” — her very own teacher, Miss. Jaime Deigh. Deigh is a second-grade teacher at R.E. Baker Elementary in Bentonville, Arkansas, and has been teaching at the school for eight years, Deigh told Fox News Digital. Each year, Bentonville Public … Read more
This ex-educator wants to teach her traitorous pal a serious lesson. A former teacher has vowed revenge on the so-called “family friend” who exposed her racy OnlyFans account. Samantha Peer, 28, worked at Thunderbolt Middle School in Arizona before she was placed on administrative leave late last year after officials found out about her erotic … Read more