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A middle school teacher in South Carolina has been accused of dragging a student under a table during class, telling the boy 'this is what the Nazis do to Jews,' police said today. The 12-year-old student said he got up to sharpen a pencil at Bluffton Middle School on Wednesday when Patricia Mulholland grabbed him by his collar and said, 'come here, Jew,' police said. The 7th-grade teacher claims she was trying to teach the students a lesson about the Holocaust.

Mark Denicore and his wife appeared in court in Loudoun County Monday morning for allegedly failing to get their three children to school on time. According to Loudoun County Public Schools, between one and 30 minutes late is tardy. The Denicore children have been tardy at least 30 times this year alone -- almost one out of every three days, according to Wayde Byard, of the school district. It falls under the state’s truancy code. The Denicores’ trial date is March 14. The violation is a Class 3 misdemeanor.

A Texas mother says she’s outraged after learning that her 7-year-old son’s teacher makes students “pay” to use the bathroom. "I was absolutely appalled," Sonja Cross told NBC 5. "I could not believe it." The J.O. Davis Elementary teacher requires students to pay for trips to the toilet with “Boyd Bucks,” fake money the first-year instructor uses to reward the children for good behavior. Cross said she found out about the unusual system after her son wet his pants during school because he didn’t have enough “Boyd Bucks” for a bathroom run.

LEBANON — The Mason High School teacher accused of sexual misconduct with five students was released early Tuesday afternoon on her own recognizance and warned to stay away from students. If convicted on all charges, Schuler could be sentenced to up to 81 years in jail.

His parents say they understand what he did was inappropriate, but are outraged by the way Arvada Police handled the case. The parents do not want their real names used.

They say “Tim” is being treated for ADD and his therapist told him to draw pictures when got upset, rather than disrupt the class. So that’s what he did. Last October, he drew stick figures of himself with a gun, pointed at four other stick figures with the words “teacher must die.”

A county prosecutor in Michigan is proposing a law that could punish parents with jail time for repeatedly missing their children's parent-teacher conferences.

Wayne County Prosecutor Kym Worthy said that's indicative of a larger issue in Detroit, where the lack of making parents accountable for their children partly is blamed on elevated truancy and dropout rates, as well as a recent rash of violent crimes involving teens.

Worthy has a new idea she hopes will fix the problem: Jail parents for up to three days for repeatedly missing scheduled parent-teacher conferences.

When most high school students have a problem the first thing they do is bring it to the attention of the authorities, usually a teacher. So, when things started going missing from backpacks at Linden High School in California, many students starting pointing fingers at each other. But Justine Betti had the foresight to set up a sting operation for the thief. What she discovered was shocking to many, but not to me.

2 students were left stranded at bus stops this morning in sub-zero weather, while others were left home after buses either didn’t start or stalled out on their routes this morning because of the cold.

“It was a bit chaotic,” said Superintendent Jack Copps.

Copps wasn’t notified of the problem until 7 a.m. — late in the morning for parents or district officials to arrange other rides for students, he said. The district tried to notify parents using its automated phone calling system, but the system first sent out only a garbled message, further compounding the problem.