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Revealed: New York’s ‘serial groper’ teacher who hugs, tickles and harasses female students… and he’s STILL allowed to keep his job which earns $95,000-a-year teaching social studies

Jonathan Polayes earns $95,000-a-year teaching social studies in city schools
He has twice been suspended following sexual misconduct accusations

Has spent 22 years working in city schools, with allegations dating back to 1994

Education officials are hoping it is third time lucky as they try to get rid of a school teacher accused of sexual misconduct.

Jonathan Polayes, 60, has taught at New York city schools for the past 22 years, racking up a [...]

Cops summoned to elementary school after girl kisses boy

A sheriff’s deputy was dispatched last week to a Florida elementary school after a girl kissed a boy during a physical education class.

School brass actually reported the impromptu buss as a possible sex crime, according to the Lee County Sheriff’s Office.

The assistant principal of Orange River Elementary School called in the cops after a teacher spotted the smooch Wednesday at the Fort Myers school. In fact, Margaret Ann Haring, 56, [...]

Fed Judge: Calif. School Was Right to Forbid Students’ American Flag T-Shirts on Cinco de Mayo

Should public school officials have the right to prevent students from wearing pro-American garb on Cinco de Mayo?

This question has been at the heart of a California court battle between the Morgan Hill Unified School District and students who were told by a principal and assistant principal that they could not wear American flag t-shirts on the Mexican holiday back in 2010.

Following the incident, a lawsuit against the district was [...]

It took eight years and well over $1 million in taxpayer funds to fire a city teacher

Where’s Donald Trump when you need him?

It took eight years and well over $1 million in taxpayer funds to get rid of Murry Bergtraum HS Spanish teacher Yvonne Chalom.

Between November 2003 and April 2004, Chalom, 49, allegedly left “bizarre, threatening” messages after-hours on the voicemail of three administrators at the lower Manhattan school. They included audio of news reports on gunshots in Iraq, the anniversary of the [...]

L.A. Unified board approves budget that includes pay cuts and layoffs of about 3,000

Cliff Ker, L.A. Unified’s Academic Decathlon coordinator since 2000, will split his duties next year between the decathlon and working as an assistant principal at Bell High School. [...]

Middle Schooler Handcuffed Over Spilled Milk

VALPARAISO — A 12-year-old faces two counts of resisting law enforcement for his alleged actions when he refused to clean up spilled milk in the Ben Franklin Middle School cafeteria.

A police officer was helping supervise the lunch period on Tuesday, because both the principal and assistant principal were in a meeting, and the boy got into a confrontation with a school staff member.

After refusing to [...]