Education

Glendale Elementary School Accused of Keeping Boy in Windowless Room and Giving Him Sugar; Parents Say Kid's Allergic to Sugar

By Matthew Hendley Mon., Sep. 17 2012 at 1:04 PM
Categories: Education
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Some kid eating chocolate.
A Glendale couple is suing the Deer Valley Unified School District, claiming staff at the boy's elementary school fed him sugar, and often kept him in a small, windowless room due to his behavior.

The boy's parents contend that the school kept giving their boy sugar -- which the boy is "severely allergic" to -- which caused behavioral issues, and ultimately, caused the boy to be locked in the small room all the time.

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Tempe Ranked Second-Worst College Town in America (By Online Education Peddlers)

By James King Fri., Jan. 6 2012 at 10:22 AM
Categories: Education, Higher Learning
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At least the scenery's nice...
​According to a new survey, Tempe, the home of Arizona State University's largest campus, is the second-worst college town in America -- worse even than places like Waco, Texas, Ruston, Louisiana, and Poughkeepsie, New York.

However, the survey was conducted by a group urging people to get an online education, rather than a traditional, booze-filled campus experience.

In its list of the worst college towns in the country, the website AccreditedOnlineColleges explains that "these college campuses are so bad that they might even convince you to apply to an online college or visit universities in larger, urban centers."

Regardless of the survey's apparent agenda, below is what it had to say about Sun Devil-ville:

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Is Suspension Too Harsh For Eighth Graders Who Threatened to Set Teacher on Fire (Or Cut Out her Tongue, Drown Her, Or Run Her Over With Truck)?

By James King Tue., Dec. 13 2011 at 7:00 AM
Categories: Education, Morning Poll, School Daze
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This is a copy of the "death plan" a few Chandler junior high students had for their teacher.
​The Chandler Unified School District decided yesterday to uphold a semester-long suspension for five eighth grade students who threatened to kill their teacher by -- among other methods -- setting her on fire, cutting out her tongue, drowning her, or running her over with a truck.

See our post on the students' death threats here.

The students, four girls and one boy, ages 12 and 13, aren't allowed to go back to Santan Junior High School until next semester, and some -- their parents, especially -- are concerned the punishment is too harsh.

"I, as many others, sincerely believe the long-term suspension extending through the end of the semester is beyond unjust and severe," Kim Thomas, the mother of one of the girls, wrote in a letter to district administrators last month. "In no way is this punishment fitting of the actions demonstrated by the students."


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Chandler Student Who Planned to Set Teacher on Fire (Or Cut Out her Tongue, Drown Her, Or Run Her Over With Truck) Gets Lengthy Suspension

By James King Mon., Dec. 12 2011 at 12:56 PM
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​A junior high school student in Chandler will have to sit out the entire semester after she and a few friends jotted down some plans about how to best murder their language arts teacher earlier this year.

Some of the ideas that made the students' list (which you can see below) include cutting out the teacher's tongue, tying a brick around her neck and dropping her in a pool, and setting her on fire.

The Santan Junior High students, four girls and one boy, ages 12 and 13, eqach face criminal charges of threatening and intimidating for the threats against the teacher.

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Michael Lamonica, Former Mesa Elementary School Teacher, Pleads Guilty to Child Molestation Charges

By James King Mon., Jun. 20 2011 at 2:12 PM
Categories: Education
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Michael Lamonica
​A former teacher at a Mesa elementary school pleaded guilty today to charges that he attempted to molest a 7-year-old girl in the band room of the school where he worked and the girl was a student. 

Michael Lamonica, a former music teacher at Mesa's Brinton Elementary School, pleaded guilty this morning to four counts of attempted child molestation.

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Prescott High School Students' Graduation Prank: Steal a Formerly Pink Car

By James King Fri., May 27 2011 at 12:26 PM
Categories: Education
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Walker, Arizona's "Pink Car" is no longer pink -- it's covered in profanity.
​Six Prescott High School students were so excited to graduate that they didn't bother with traditional graduation pranks like writing something in shaving cream on the front door of their school. Rather, they stole a car.

Yavapai County sheriff's deputies arrested the six soon-to-be grads after the "Pink Car," which is apparently the pride and joy of rural Walker, Arizona, turned up in the high school's parking lot covered in spray paint-written profanity.

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