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.Click to Read More...
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?Click to Read More...
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.Click to Read More...
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. Click to Read More...
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.Click to Read More...