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Communist Teacher Fired

Published on April 22, 2014

Posted in: Schools & Education, Tidbits

On July 8, 1954, the Wayland, Massachusetts school board fired teacher Ann P. Hale, Jr for having been a member of the Communist Party.

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Summer Job Hoax

Published on April 15, 2014

Posted in: Hoaxes, Schools & Education, Tidbits

In 1932, more than fifty Bronx teachers received a telegram telling them that they had a summer job, Did they really?

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Fired for Taking off Jacket

Published on April 8, 2014

Posted in: Schools & Education, Tidbits

Teacher Walter C. Davis was fired by the Overpeck Township Board of Education for not wearing a tie, among other things.

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The Pleasant Hill School Bus Tragedy – Podcast #61

Published on March 23, 2013

Posted in: Death and Murder, Escape and Survival, Podcast, Schools & Education

The sad, yet true, story of a 1931 school bus disaster in the Pleasant Hill school district in Colorado.

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The Bath School Massacre – Podcast #3

Published on January 28, 2008

Posted in: Crime & Punishment, Death and Murder, Podcast, Schools & Education

While most people know about the massacre at Columbine, few realize that the deadliest act of US school violence occurred in Bath, Michigan in 1927.

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