Paula Beare is a math teacher from Toowoomba, Queensland, and her hand written note to Facebook has been shared over 73,000 times. The purpose of this experiment was to develop a mathematical equation for her students that tracked both likes and shares.
Well, congratulations, Paula Beare, you have become the most popular teacher in the country.
Graeme Whiting, the principal of a British private school suggested that fantasy books like Harry Potter, Lord of the Rings and Game of Thrones (to name a few) can damage the subconscious of a child and cause mental illness. In this longer than necessary blog post he talks about how by the age of 30 he had read all the books he wanted to and that children don't have "thinking brains" until at least the age of 14.
He prefers that kids stick to the classics that aren't "sensationalized" with tales of magic or anything interesting.
This has led many critics to ask several questions such as, "Does he seriously think Game of Thrones is for kids?" and "What kind of boring Shakespeare plays is he reading?"
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Twitter user @Saeya8 originally posted this video on Twitter with this caption about her teacher's surprise birthday party:
Threw our teacher a surprise party. He doesn't remember the last time he has a bday cake
According to the Daily Mail, this teacher is Kyle Simpler of Burleson High School in Texas. He revealed that it's been about 10 years since he's had a real birthday cake.
Alex Purdy was looking for life long friendships, support and maybe some philanthropy when she joined her sorority. What she got was a house full of mean girls. When she left Greek life she made this video hoping to inspire change. She says this in the description:
This video is a reflection of my experience in a sorority. I decided to leave last semester and make this video to share my thoughts on how greek life can change for the better. I want to make it clear that all matters are purely my opinion. If you relate to some of the things I said, please share this video on Facebook, Twitter or Instagram using #sororityrevamp to help inspire others to bring sororities back to their roots.
She mentions girls being given weight loss pills to encourage them to lose weight and girls being told to dress more provocatively so that "boys will like them". Her biggest problem was the lack of compassion her "sisters" had toward each other. So far she's received mostly words of encouragement for her video.
Kids in Roosevelt High School on Chicago's Northwest Side have been receiving burnt pizza, rotten fruit and generally unhealthy, unappetizing school lunches. Most people don't get excited about school lunch but this takes it a little too far and the kids at this school decided to do something about it. They've created something called The School Lunch Project: Culinary Denial where they share information about the school's lunch provider Aramark as well as pictures of unsatisfactory lunches like this one:
Ultimately, their demands are for better alternatives to the lunch they are offered. Currently, Aramark benefits by being the only food provider in school and lowering their bottom line as much as possible. If kids don't eat, the company might have to change their menu or risk losing profits.
What if someone told you that 5+5+5 doesn't equal 15?
Any sane person with a second grand education would call your bluff. But they'd be wrong. At least, according to the Common Core curriculum.
A photo of a student getting this answer wrong blew up on Reddit last week, causing mayhem across the Internet.
The "correct" answer to solving 5 times 3 would be 3+3+3+3+3.
Supporters of Common Core say that adding 5 groups of 3 together is correct because that strategy will help students once they reach more advanced math.
Back in September, a dad wrote a check in "Common Core math" to show how strange some of the strategies are.
And Common Core has become a hot button issue in the GOP presidential election. The Donald has come out against the academic standards while Jeb! has long support them.
"@RebelCapsGal: @realDonaldTrump THANK YOU for speaking out against Common Core and how horrible it is for kids!"
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 18, 2015
Breaking news: teenagers are teenagers.
8th grade white girl Caycee Cunningham is calling racial discrimination on her Utah school, which is demanding she change her dreadlocks hairstyle.
The school has a policy on distracting hairstyles and unnatural hair colors. Cunningham is saying its a party of her 'spiritual journey' and her mom is getting right in line with that.
Local channel FOX 13 has the story:
After studying abroad in Guatemala, Cunningham at Lincoln Academy grew dreadlocks as part what she calls a spiritual journey in her Hindu beliefs.
"I think they could be a little more accepting of it, and I think they should, because we do live in America and it does kind of boggles my mind a little bit," the teen said.
Caycee's mother Tonya Judd said she received a phone call from the school principal at Lincoln Academy saying Caycee's dreadlocks were against the school dress code and she was asked to remove them.
Judd believes if students of other ethnicities are allowed to wear them, her daughter should be able to wear them as well.
"My daughter is white and there happens to be other kids in the school who happen to be other race and ethnicity and they have hair that can't be combed, and there's never been an issue regarding that before," Judd said.
Ugh.
You can watch the television news report, featuring the very unfortunately named high school principal Jake Hunt, here:
Adult films have been putting students through college for years. But not quite in this way.
Pornhub, the fap destination for millions of students everywhere, is offering a $25,000 college scholarship . And all you have to do is answer this one simple question: How do you strive to make others happy?
Along with an essay, applicants must have a GPA of 3.2 or higher, be 18+, attend an accredited post-secondary institution and create a 2-5 minute video that elaborates on their application.
Yay, education!
Nibbles thinks he’s a dog, and it’s the cutest thing ever.
Watch as this Rouen duck waits patiently for his best human friend Johnny to come home from school, and as soon as the boy is in sight, he completely loses it.
Johnny also greets him with a few kisses on his bill once all the quacking starts dying down a bit.
It’s only a matter of time before he learns to bark.
His owners explain that Nibbles wears a tiny diaper so that he can go on car rides and spend time in their house.
Do yourself a favor and check out the rest of the clips on their YouTube channel.
Here they are going for a walk down the street together set to “Stand By Me.”
And here he is eating Johnny’s homework, just like a dog is supposed to do.
Well this certainly was a graduation that the students will never forget.
At the TNT Academy commencement ceremony in Georgia on Friday, the Valedictorian’s speech was accidentally left out of the program, so the crowd had started to disperse when he got up to speak, and not everyone was paying attention.
That’s when the school’s founder/director Nancy Gordeuk stepped up to the microphone to tell everyone that they were being rude.
“Look who’s leaving… all the black people,” she said.
As the video shows, the room quickly reacts to the racist comments with some people approaching the podium and others walking out in disgust.
Gordeuk has since apologized in an email to parents, in which she says “the devil was in the house and came out from my mouth,” according to 11 Alive News in Atlanta.
She also issued the following statement to NBC News.
Frustrated with the prospect of ruining the once-in-a-lifetime ceremony the graduates have worked so hard for, my emotions got the best of me and that is when I blurted out ‘you people are being so rude to not listen to this speech.’ I deeply apologize for my actions made in the emotional state of trying to let this last student finish his speech.
Here’s another video of the incident that includes a moment before the racist remarks where she calls someone a “goober” and a “coward.”
“She’s off her rocker,” says one of the men in the video.
High school students in Hawkins County, Tennessee were served up some 6-year old pork last week for lunch, and while no one has gotten sick yet, the news is not sitting well with anyone.
A cook at a local primary school (who didn’t serve the meat) sent a photo of the pork to a city commissioner named Michael Herrell, who discovered that it had also been distributed to several other schools in the area.
Cafeteria workers at Cherokee High School said “that it smelled so bad they made gravy to put over the meat,” according to News Channel 11.
And at another high school the smell was apparently so bad that it reportedly stunk up the halls.
Despite the putrid meat being so old and smelly, some students “even came back for seconds,” according to WISH TV.
Which is mildly disturbing.
A rep from the USDA told Yahoo that there probably wasn’t any danger in eating it, but it “should be consumed within four to 12 months of freezing.”
The director of schools, Steve Starnes, has since ordered that an inventory be taken of all the food in the freezers, although you think that sort of thing would have already been in place.
A picture is worth a thousand words, and in this case, it’s also now worth over a million dollars.
The popular photo series “Humans of New York” highlighted a young boy from Brooklyn last week named Vidal Chastanet, whose inspirational quote about his principal evolved into an online fundraising campaign of epic proportions on Indiegogo.
Chastanet, and eighth grader from Mott Hall Bridges Academy in Brownsville was asked who most influenced him in his life.
His response: “My principal, Ms. Lopez,” he said in the original Facebook post (which now has over 1 million likes. “She tells us that each time somebody fails out of school, a new jail cell gets built. And one time she made every student stand up, one at a time, and she told each one of us that we matter.”
Brandon Stanton, the photographer behind “Humans of New York” later spoke with the principal, Nadia Lopez, and featured her on the site as well.
“This is a neighborhood that doesn’t necessarily expect much from our children, so at Mott Hall Bridges Academy we set our expectations very high,” she said. “We don’t call the children ‘students,’ we call them ‘scholars.’ Our color is purple. Our scholars wear purple and so do our staff. Because purple is the color of royalty.”
The area of Brooklyn where they are situated has some of the highest crime rates in the city, and Stanton wondered how he could use this opportunity to help the kids. Thus the Indiegogo campaign was launched.
Initially the funds raised on the site were to simply go towards an annual field trip where her students would get to visit Harvard University, but after the huge response (it’s at just over $1 million with 8 days left as of Thursday) the project has morphed into something even bigger.
All proceeds above $700,000 will be put into a scholarship fund for the students at Mott Hall Bridges Academy called “The Vidal Scholarship Fund,” Stanton announced this week, with Chastanet as the first recipient.
In addition to all of the monetary support, some people have even been sending Ms. Lopez flowers.
Well done Internet. Well done.
New evidence has emerged proving that Paul Rudd used to be a lion.
A Reddit user uploaded a photo this week of Rudd in the '80s when he was at the University of Kansas sporting a wild mane, and it's amazing.
Gustavo Angel Tamayo has never played basketball in his life, but after getting selected to compete in a timed shot contest for his school he stepped up his game.
That's the University of Washington's famous library chilling at the bottom of the Washington State University's planner. Better luck next time, Cougars.
