Tag: elementary school

Quebec Elementary School Cuts Short Field Trip After Students Find Dead Body in Woods

A Quebec elementary school had to cut short a field trip after some students discovered a dead body in a wooded area near the southern city of Sherbrooke on May 2. Noovo Info, which first reported the incident in French, said the students who made the discovery are from the local Notre-Dame-du-Rosaire elementary school. “Despite…


Kindergarten and School-Aged Pupil Enrolments Drop Sharply Amid China’s Decline in Births

News Analysis China’s kindergartens and elementary schools have seen student numbers decreasing dramatically following the year-by-year shrinking of China’s birth rate. The trend is expected to intensify and extend to higher grades in middle schools and colleges in the upcoming years. On March 23, the Ministry of Education said in a press conference that in…


Georgia Elementary Teacher Fired for Opposing Children’s Book Depicting Same-Sex Couples, Now Suing School

A Bryan County substitute teacher says she was terminated from her job at McAllister Elementary School after she reported a children’s book containing illustrations that go against her religious values. Part of the school’s new library read-aloud program, children’s book “All Are Welcome” contains illustrations of nontraditional forms of marriage, including depictions of a same-sex…


Radioactive Waste Found at Missouri Elementary School

FLORISSANT, Mo. — There is significant radioactive contamination at an elementary school in suburban St. Louis where nuclear weapons were produced during World War II, according to a new report by environmental investigation consultants. The report by Boston Chemical Data Corp. confirmed fears about contamination at Jana Elementary School in the Hazelwood School District in…


Connecticut Elementary School Administrator Promotes ‘Subtle’ Left-Wing Indoctrination: Project Veritas

An elementary school administrator in Greenwich, Connecticut was captured in an undercover video boasting about how he refuses to hire Catholic or conservative teachers, and how the teachers at his school subtly inject left-wing progressive ideology into their teaching. In a video released by news organization Project Veritas, Jeremy Boland, assistant principal at Cos Cob…


How One Teacher’s Time Capsules Are Inspiring Students to Treasure Memories of Their Childhood

The last few weeks of school can be brutal if you let them. For me, they were my favorite time of the year. They were a time of nostalgia, a time to tie up loose ends, a time to look back, and a time to make memories that last forever. The unsaid truth about the…


Texas School Shooter ‘Walked in Unobstructed’: Official; CDC Identifies 9 Monkeypox Cases | NTD Evening News

A Texas official on May 26 clarified that the shooter who killed 21 people at an elementary school was unobstructed when he entered the building. The official added that there was no armed officer on the campus. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has identified nine cases of monkeypox, all of which have…


Virginia Teacher Placed on Leave After Saying He Won’t Call Students by Their Preferred Pronouns

An elementary school teacher in Loudoun County, Virginia, was placed on administrative leave after objecting to his school district’s proposed policy about pronouns, according to a report. Byron “Tanner” Cross, who teaches physical education at Leesburg Elementary School in Loudoun County Public Schools, was placed on leave after he spoke against a proposed rule that…