(U.S – Florida) Emily Meyer, a former Saturn Elementary teacher sentenced to 30 days in the county jail for hosting a keg party for a group of high school students will be released early today for good behavior. Link
(N.Z.) Leslie Ronald Hay, 58, a former principal at Glentunnel Primary School in Canterbury, New Zealand, jailed in April last year after admitting indecently assaulting three boys under the age of 12 between 1979 and 1984, has vowed never to work with kids again. Link
(U.S.) A baseball player in the Wilson School District in New York says he asked school personnel to do something to stop the sexual hazing against younger members of the team, but was told he would be suspended and the police called if he did not drop the matter. Link
(Australia) Daniel John Privilege, 25, a former sports instructor at a Perth private boys’ school was jailed for four-and-a-half years onmore than 70 sex charges for recording of boys when they were in a toilet cubicle at the school. Link
(Australia) John Newton Hewitt, 49, a former Brighton Grammar teacher who has pleaded guilty to downloading hundreds of child pornography images from the internet was suffering from an ”adjustment reaction” and a depressed mood, a forensic psychologist told the County Court today. Link 1 and Link 2
(U.S.) A recent half-day, back-to-school convocation for teachers hosted by the University of Mississippi was packed with sobering messages about cybercrime, cyberbullying and inappropriate relationships between educators and students through the use of technology. Link
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