GARY — A toxicology report completed Thursday shows a Merrillville teacher had cocaine in her system when she and her son died in a crash that left her older boy critically injured two weeks ago.
Pierce Middle School teacher Merilyn Bouler, 39, of Crown Point had ingested a “small amount” of cocaine that night, a spokesman for the Lake County coroner said.
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Can masks be worn at schools?
Teacher says mask is a medical necessity, but Joliet grade school district says no
JOLIET — Armed with his wife’s doctors’ notes and medical records, Roger McReynolds pleaded with the Joliet Grade School Board on Wednesday night to allow his wife to wear a respiratory mask while teaching.
“It’s not like I’m asking for the moon. Please do this for my wife,” he said.
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Joette Gulbis knows the importance of physical fitness. She integrates it into her social studies classroom at West Ottawa’s Macatawa Bay Middle School and at the Saugatuck Public Schools weight and aerobic room at Saugatuck Middle/High School.
Gulbis works with community members at the Saugatuck fitness center three days a week, helping them set up workout routines and properly use equipment.
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Akron Children’s in-hospital teacher, a cancer survivor, helps kids keep up on work while sharing own life lessons
Published on Sunday, Oct 26, 2008
hile his classmates spend the day learning letter sounds, kindergartner Trevor Weigand tackles a much bigger challenge every Tuesday.
The 6-year-old from Alliance misses at least one day of school each week to undergo tests and treatments for tumors embedded in his brain.
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JACINTO CITY, Texas –
A teacher was arrested after drugs were found in her car parked at an elementary school, officials told KPRC Local 2 Thursday.
Houston Independent School District officials said police got a tip that someone was smoking marijuana in the teachers’ parking lot at Whittier Elementary School.
School district officials said that an officer and a drug dog investigated and found the drugs inside 51-year-old Susan Michael’s car.
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Monday, January 19, 2009
Here’s the situation: Teachers in Washington state can now legally have sex with students who are 18 years old.
Since 18-year-olds are no longer minors, teachers can become sexually/romantically involved with them, the state Court of Appeals ruled last week.
So, are sexual relations between a teacher and a student ever OK? The short answer: No.
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Physical education was a relatively new concept to Margaret Beuter growing up on a farm near Holbrook.
Years later, however, she discovered the virtues of physical education and in her 30th year of teaching, she was named the elementary teacher of the year by the Iowa Health, Physical Education, Recrea-tion and Dance Association at its convention Nov. 1 and 2 in Iowa City.
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North Central High School teacher Barbi Kern was named the state’s Health Educator of the Year by the Indiana Association for Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance.
The 32-year-old Zionsville resident, who’s the former North Central gymnastics coach, also garnered the Midwest Health Educator of the Year award.
Question: Were these awards a surprise?
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