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First Grade

Teacher Pretends To Shoot Students, Gets Suspended

The Huffington Post | Ron Dicker | Posted 02.15.2013 | Parents
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A Georgia schoolteacher was suspended after pretending to shoot first-grade students during a lesson about the Newtown, Conn., massacre. The Odyss...

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First Grade and My First Tears

Abbie Rumbach | Posted 10.24.2012 | Parents
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Abbie Rumbach

Why wasn't I crying with the other moms on the first day of Kindergarten? Should I be faking it? Could I pinch myself hard enough to well up tears?

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Eight-Year-Old Upset After Teacher Gave Her The Biggest 'Catastrophe' Award

The Huffington Post | Laura Hibbard | Posted 05.29.2012 | Home
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Cassandra Garcia, an 8-year-old student from Tucson, Ariz., became upset after her teacher gave her the "Catastrophe Award" for the "most excuses for ...

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Mean Girls, The Starter Edition

David Valdes Greenwood | Posted 02.09.2012 | Parents
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David Valdes Greenwood

We found ourselves asking a question we'd never before considered. Which feels worse: When your child deals with a Mean Girl or when your child is the Mean Girl?

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First Grader Investigated For Sexual Harassment

The Huffington Post | Laura Hibbard | Posted 12.05.2011 | Home
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A 7-year-old boy at South Boston's Tynan Elementary School is under investigation for sexual harassment after he struck a boy in the groin, The Boston...

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Joy Resmovits

How Teachers Approached Bin Laden's Death

HuffingtonPost.com | Joy Resmovits | Posted 07.02.2011 | Home
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When Christine Yarzabek, a first-grade teacher in Hershey, Pa., heard that Osama bin Laden had been shot and killed, she was at a loss. "9/11 happ...

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