In 1948 in the US, pregnant women were not allowed to be teachers in 57% of public school districts because “the sight of pregnant women would unfavorably influence students” and because “pregnant teachers’ minds would not be on their work.”
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In Oklahoma, it can take a teacher, with a degree…
In Oklahoma, it can take a teacher, with a degree, 11 years to reach QuikTrip’s starting salary for full-time employees with just a high school diploma.
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37% of public school teachers use personal money…
37% of public school teachers use personal money to buy food more than once a month for their hungry students. They spend an average of $35/month. With 3.1M teachers in the US, teachers are spending about $400M/year of their personal money to feed hungry students.
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A teacher in Queens resigned after an investigation revealed he’d used…
A teacher in Queens resigned after an investigation revealed he’d used 11 sick days to compete in professional wrestling matches, once on a televised “SmackDown!” match against Kurt Angle. His name was Matt Striker. He got signed to the WWE, and still makes his living in the Wrestling Industry as a Commentator.
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Quality of US teachers was so poor in 2001 that the average…
Quality of US teachers was so poor in 2001 that the average teacher only scored better than 42% of students. By 2008, it was only up to 50%. This was done by requiring qualifications such as actually having degrees in whatever they are teaching.
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There is a 100-year-old woman still teaching math at her…
There is a 100-year-old woman still teaching math at her elementary school in Brooklyn.
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For over a decade teachers and principals in Atlanta…
For over a decade teachers and principals in Atlanta erased wrong answers and filled in the right ones in students’ tests. At one school, the faculty held weekend pizza parties to correct answers before turning them in. Over the course of a single year, scores at the school jumped 45 percent.
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Author Ian McEwan helped his son write his A level English exam…
Author Ian McEwan helped his son write his A level English exam about one of his own novels, Enduring Love. The teacher disagreed with his interpretation.
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School teacher Gail Wise was the first ever purchaser of…
School teacher Gail Wise was the first ever purchaser of a Ford Mustang, paying $3419 for it in 1964 and becoming “the coolest teacher in school that year”. She still owns the car & it’s done 68000 miles. Ahh, the good ol’ days, when schoolteachers could afford things.
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The little boy from The Shining teaches …
The little boy from The Shining teaches Anatomy at a community college in Kentucky and he tells his students at the beginning of each semester that they will fail class if they ask him anything about The Shining.
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