Hint to grown-ups: On'tday aysay exysay aroundway idskay. Because a South Jersey substitute teacher was fired after he allegedly said a 7-year-old girl's outfit was "too sexy." Henry Wilson said his daughter's top and leggings outfit was deemed "too sexy" for gym class by teacher Marko Inskip. Wilson said, "She’s just a normal little 7-year-old girl who likes to dress pretty, not sexy." Seriously—if you think this outfit on a 7-year-old is sexy... well... more ›

A former private school instructor at Riverdale Country School has been accused of having a sexual relationship with a 16-year-old student. Richard Hovan, 30, who graduated from Massachusetts Institute of Technology for his undergraduate degree and from Columbia University for his master's, pleaded not guilty to two felony counts of criminal sex act and endangering the welfare of a child. However, prosecutors say Hovan's relationship with the student began when she was just 15. more ›

A 12-year-old boy is claiming that his teacher at I.S. 399 in the Bronx taped him to a chair for 20 minutes during class last Friday. Since the incident the boy—who says he was strapped to his seat after he'd gotten up to help a classmate with a math quiz—has not returned to school and the teacher has been taken out of the classroom while the Department of Education investigates. more ›

A veteran Queens elementary school teacher was arrested yesterday after allegedly assaulting a 6-year-old student. Grace Peterson-Hagendorf, a retired teacher working as a substitute at PS 22 Thomas Jefferson in Flushing, allegedly pushed a girl into her chair around 10 a.m. Wednesday, twisting the girl's neck with enough force to cause pain and bruising. Her husband Arthur Hagendorf defended her to DNAInfo, "I think she was falsely accused of this. She would never hurt a child in any way, shape or form." more ›

Yesterday afternoon, a New York city school teacher got caught red-handed while trying to remove a precious piece of artwork from a southbound 6 train at 96th Street. The Post reports that 34-year-old educator James Tavaras pried the one-of-a-kind art out of a frame resulting in charges that include possession of stolen property, petit larceny, and possession of burglary tools (the alleged burglary tool was a...screwdriver). more ›

A Bronx teacher has been arrested and accused of repeatedly punching and sitting on top of a 12-year-old student. Evelyn Tirado, 53, has been accused of assaulting Brigitte Aznaran last Thursday at Dr. Richard Izquierdo Health and Science Charter School in Morrisania. “She grabbed me by my arms, threw me to the floor and starting hitting my arm,” the sixth grader told the Daily News. “Then she sat on top of me like I was a chair. I was crying. I don’t ever want to see her again.” more ›

A Bushwick high school art teacher was fired for allegedly sleeping with a student and plying multiple students with pot and booze off campus. According to the Post, Bushwick Community HS art teacher Giovanna Vasconez was found to have had sex with one student, and "fooled around" with another. She also gave the two students, along with a third, pot and booze. more ›

Are you bored with your job, but enthralled by the mysteries of nature? Wish your days were filled with a few more dinosaur bones and giant squids? Well, step right up, because the Museum of Natural History has a golden opportunity for you! more ›

Between the pepper spraying incidents, the stabbings, the knifings, the beatings, the acid attacks, and the unending violence, we have no interest in setting foot in a high school anytime soon—and we greatly admire all those teachers who do, even when it seemingly costs them their sanity. One Bronx high school teacher had a complete breakdown in front of his students yesterday after one student reportedly misbehaved. “He kind of lost it a little bit. He was taken away on a stretcher,” a fellow teacher told the News. more ›

A Brooklyn middle school teacher has been arrested and charged with the rape of a 14-year-old student. Claudia Tillery, 42, allegedly engaged in a sexual relationship with the unidentified boy for two years. Tillery, who teaches at MS 35, The Stephen Decatur Middle School in Bedford-Stuyvesant, allegedly bribed the student, then a sixth-grader, with alcohol and marijuana. more ›

Vicki Knox, the Union Township high school teacher who ignited a serious firestorm over the anti-gay messages she allegedly posted all over her school's Facebook, is at the center of an increasingly intense School Board battle over whether or not she should be allowed to keep her job. And while Knox herself has yet to publicly comment on the issue, pretty much everyone else is. more ›

Viki Knox, the Union Township, New Jersey teacher who referred to homosexuality as "a perverted spirit that has existed from the beginning of creation," and a "sin" that "breeds like cancer" on a Facebook thread about her school's LGBT pride month, is at the center of a serious battle over free speech. more ›

Further proof that teachers and Facebook don't mix: A Union Township, New Jersey teacher is being investigated over the homophobic comments she allegedly posted on her Facebook, calling homosexuality "perverted" and criticizing Union High School LGBT month events, reports the Star-Ledger today. more ›

Jennifer O'Brien, the first grade teacher in New Jersey who posted on her Facebook wall "i’m not a teacher - i’m a warden for future criminals," says that her comments were simply made in the heat of the moment. more ›

You'd think that teachers would have figured out by now that posting on Facebook can only lead to trouble—or sexual harassment. But Florida social studies teacher Jerry Buell hasn't figured that out yet. Buell, a former "Teacher of the Year" award winner, is in trouble after he wrote on his Facebook page, "I'm watching the news, eating dinner, when the story about New York okaying same sex unions came on and I almost threw up." more ›

A Queens high school teacher was arrested today for allegedly having sex with her 16-year-old student earlier this year. According to the Nassau County police, Tara Driscoll, 33, drove the boy to the Capri Motel in Lynbrook and "engaged in sexual relations with the victim." more ›

An octogenarian teacher who says she was fired from her job because she couldn't physically take every kindergartener on a bathroom break is suing to get reinstated. And worst of all, the physically impaired 80-year-old Lillie Leon claims that the school set her up for failure: "I was expected to bathroom all of the children, boys and girls, at the same time, which is impossible. I really think it was an entrapment," Leon told the Post. more ›

A former math teacher being sued in federal court for violating the rights of a student he slept with has come up with an interesting reason why he should not have to pay up. Julio Cesar Benavides, who is defending himself in court, says that he didn't violate the girl's rights and even if he did, he certainly didn't do it in his official capacity as a teacher, a charge at the heart of the complaint. The Post reports that Benavides recently wrote to the judge in the case to explain that in class he treated his then-14-year-old victim like "all the other students." more ›

Back in 2007, the city and teachers' union agreed to give bonuses to teachers whose schools show student achievement, which resulted in millions in payouts. But now the city is scrapping the program. Why? The NY Times reports, "The decision was made in light of a study that found the bonuses had no positive effect on either student performance or teachers’ attitudes toward their jobs." more ›

Yesterday, a female science teacher on Staten Island was arrested and accused of having inappropriate sexual conduct with a 16-year-old female student. Police said that Danielle Johnsen had at least three hot-and-heavy encounters with a sophomore. But Johnsen's lawyer told SI Advance yesterday that all is not what it seems, and he had started his own investigation: "There is absolutely no truth to the allegations. It is very clear to me that [the complainant] has made up this entire story. What’s not so clear is why. We have some ideas, and my investigators and I will find out what’s going on soon enough. Don’t worry about that." more ›

A Staten Island science teacher at an all-girls school has been accused of having inappropriate sexual conduct with a 16-year-old student. Danielle Johnsen, 29, surrendered to police yesterday; she is accused of having three hot-and-heavy sessions with the sophomore... which only came to light after other students read about the alleged trysts on the teen's Tumblr. more ›

The Department of Education has had its fair share of problems lately, including being perpetually understaffed. So a decade ago, the DOE attempted to recruit teachers from the Caribbean with the promise that they could earn permanent residency in the US. But years later, just 276 of the 700 immigrants have become permanent residents, leaving many living on cultural-exchange visas they need to renew every year. "We just need not to feel like we were used and thrown out," third grade teacher Shirleth Johnson-Scott told the Daily News. more ›

For the last time, if you don't have something nice to say, then don't put it on Facebook. A first grade teacher in Paterson, New Jersey was suspended after writing on Facebook that she felt like a "warden" overseeing "future criminals." Parents started arriving at the school to complain, and the school is now conducting an investigation. Board president Theodore Best said, "You can't simply fire someone for what they have on a Facebook page; but if that spills over and affects the classroom then you can take action." more ›

This is hardly surprising: James Franco will now be a graduate film teacher at NYU. Why not! He's already accomplished everything else, from being a student of not just life but also almost every educational institute in America, to teaching a course about himself over on the West Coast, to soap opera acting, to mastering the art of the passive-aggressive Tweet and delete. Everyone can learn something from this guy! And now 12 lucky students will be able to, so long as they can fork over the $46,000 annual tuition at the school, and hide their real intentions for taking the class (you know who you are). more ›

A Brooklyn all-boys Catholic school teacher has been fired for alleged "inappropriate" conduct with a student a decade ago. Joseph Appel, 33, had been dean of the Xaverian High School's honors program and its drama director. Officials told students about his dismissal at an assembly earlier this week: "They told us he did something inappropriate with a student 10 years ago," said one student at the Bay Ridge school. more ›

Facebook isn't just for ordering pizza, picking up hookers, and exchanging messages with underage kids—it's also a great place for teachers to make incredibly tasteless comments and bitch about their students! more ›

Yesterday, the Bronx public school teacher who resigned from teaching after her writings about working as a Craigslist sex worker got her on the front page of every local rag hitched her wagon to notorious celebrity lawyer Gloria Allred. But we couldn't figure out why Melissa Petro did, especially since she had already agreed not to sue the Board of Education or the city. But it turns out she has more civic concerns in mind: she told reporters yesterday that she was developing a creative writing program for teens at risk for sexual exploitation. But our favorite Post columnist wasn't so charmed by her announcement: "This is one whore with chutzpah," wrote Walmart-loving, geese-hating Andrea Peyser. more ›

Obviously this day would come: The Daily News reports that Melissa Petro, best known as the Bronx public school teacher who admitted she was a Craigslist sex worker on the Huffington Post, "has joined celebrity lawyer Gloria Allred's stable of porn stars, former mistresses and banking beauties." more ›

Columbia... College of Hollywood is offering a class on Columbia University grad James Franco. According to GOOD, the actor/artist/everyman designed the college course himself (of course he did!), and here's the deal: more ›