“The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.”-George Orwell (aka Eric Arthur Blair)

Disappearing Students Syndrome (DSS): A phrase created by me to describe a phenomenon taking place across the United States, affecting both privately and publicly funded schools, from Kindergarten all the way through University levels.

Incomplete (Tip-o-the-Iceberg) list of publicly announced education related layoffs, shutdowns and crimes, December 2018:

Teachers in recent incidents have taken out scissors and cut students’ hair. One teacher, in California, was arrested and the other teacher, in New Mexico, was fired after an investigation.

Teachers Quit Jobs at Highest Rate on Record

Controversy Over Parents Who Eat Lunch With Their Children at School

In 19 States, It’s Still Legal to Spank Children in Public Schools

South Dakota and Iowa add gun safety class to junior high school course list

ALABAMA: Birmingham based for-profit Education Corporation of America suddenly shutdown all Brightwood College campuses across the U.S., due to having its accreditation revoked by the U.S. Department of Education.

Education Corporation of America also shutting down Virginia College campuses nationwide

State taxpayer funded education budget to hit $7-billion USD in 2020!

Is it because Alabama high schools newest varsity sport is video games?

Yet virtual schools face lack of online access in rural areas

Some Alabama schools look more like factories

Birmingham City Schools employees to get $500 bonus

ALASKA: Classroom video shows students following correct procedure during massive earthquake: “All I can say is, holy crap!”,  “Will they cancel school today?”

Photos from inside earthquake-damaged schools

After earthquake, two schools close for the year

ARIZONA: Teachers who talk politics in class could be fired if state lawmaker’s bill passes

Two teachers fined, disciplined for political advocacy

Teacher allegedly breaks ‘special needs’ student’s elbow

ARKANSAS: Teacher Retirement System’s payoff period shrinks

Gun-Carrying Teachers Becoming More Common in Arkansas

Charter school teacher gives 9-year-old a concussion

CALIFORNIA: Brightwood College Permanently Closes 3 San Diego Campuses

School Where Student With Autism Died Violated State Regulations

COLORADO:  Art Institute Of Colorado Shutters

163 Colorado schools in need of improvement

Nurses do. Lawyers do. Yet incompetent Colorado doctors don’t have to take continuing education courses

High School evacuated on same day as planned student walkout

CONNECTICUT: Increase in ‘minority’ teachers not keeping pace with influx of immigrants

teacher fired over medical marijuana card

teacher accused of assaulting 3 cops!

Charter school cash spent on elections

Reduced state workforce is impacting education

School Superintendent and Assistant Superintendent Placed on Leave for ‘misconduct’

DELAWARE: Student bullied because his name is Trump

State seeks to create more charter school seats with federal tax dollars

So many immigrants that a taxpayer funded Spanish language website is needed for immigrant children in public school

Teacher with history of alcohol arrests pleads guilty

wrestling coach fired after claims he pulled gun on student

FLORIDA: school massacre panel recommends arming teachers with concealed weapons

school shooting: New video shows ‘blunders’

teacher arrested after professing love for 13-year-old student

teacher arrested for false criminal report 

students charged with threatening teacher

State education commissioner resigns

GEORGIA: Federal Title I taxpayer funding for Georgia schools drops by $3 million

promised teacher pay raise comes with hidden costs

teacher jailed on sex assault charges

Teacher allegedly steals $750 violin from elementary student 

teacher pleads guilty to sexually abusing 4 students

Teacher shortage

GUAM: Parents demand removal of student who allegedly threatened to “shoot up” school

HAWAII:  The Fight Against student Flight At Junior High Schools

Preschoolers served Pine-Sol instead of apple juice!!!

gender bias lawsuit against Hawaii Department of Education

Want To Teach In Hawaii? The Job Often Comes With A Big Pay Cut

Hawaii spending tax dollars on new database to track taxpayer funded school repair backlog!

IDAHO:  It was revealed that the FBI is investigating School District 401 (aka Teton School District) because 784-thousand tax dollars somehow ended up in a ‘fraudulent’ account.  The money was supposed to go to a construction contractor as part of a state bond issue.  The business manager for School District 401 was “removed” and contracted accountants are now handling school funds.

University of Idaho falls below 5% target for reserves

Mormon owned BYU-Idaho’s teacher program fails to meet state requirements

HUNDREDS OF IDAHO TEACHERS LEAVING THE CLASSROOM BEFORE RETIREMENT AGE, turnover rate exceeds national average

Charter commission investigating two Blackfoot schools

Man charged with five sex crimes was a teaching assistant in higher education

Dumb-ass Idahoans are taxing themselves a record additional $202-million for schools that don’t work (despite decades of increasing taxpayer funding)

ILLINOIS: Just a lot of hype about teachers going on strike

INDIANA: Dumb school officials finally know how many thousands of students attend online public schools

Carmel High School explodes then burns

IOWA: teacher arrested, accused of being drunk at school

Iowa Sees Drop in Teacher-Librarians

teacher under investigation after classroom incident

Iowa City Schools predicts fewer teachers due to fewer students next school year

Des Moines Public Schools eliminating “couple million dollars” worth of teaching jobs due to reduced state level taxpayer funding

Waukee taxpayers demand local school officials be fired after state audit

12-year-old boy who allegedly tried to shoot teacher will be tried as adult 

KANSAS: teacher arrested for trafficking meth

Additional charges filed against teacher

Audit finds special ed is indeed underfunded in Kansas

How much do Wichita teachers and administrators make? Here’s a list.

KENTUCKY:  Adults so dumb in Kentucky that high school has to offer ‘how to be an adult’ classes to adults!

Teacher (and former Miss Kentucky) Arrested for Allegedly Sending Nude Photos to 15-Year-Old

LOUISIANA:  Back in September, students at the Virginia College  Baton Rouge campus were told they could transfer to any remaining campuses and administrators promised them they would have until June of 2019 to finish up. Now, that promise is broken and students are left scrambling to figure out what’s next: “Wow, y’all are shutting down all the campuses, so where are we going to go now?”-Marcus Williams.

police officers indicted for allegedly slamming teenage student

Police Investigating Abuse at Celebrated Louisiana School

Police arrest teacher accused of abusing multiple students

MAINE: ‘christian’ school teacher indicted on charges of sexually assaulting student

Maine gets $2.9M federal taxpayer funded grant for school safety

MARYLAND: Brightwood College, with campuses in Towson and Baltimore, is abruptly closing all locations, students were on the verge of tears: “I was going to do my internship in February. Now I have to do an extra 5 to 7 months, somewhere, if I have the money.”-Meleigha McCall, medical assistant student

School District Sued for Years of Abuse Against Transgender Teacher

MASSACHUSETTS: Massachusetts has fastest growing public college costs in U.S.

Newbury College Will Close

Junior high school student attacks other student with a knife

Home-Schooling Parent Arrested In Her Home

MICHIGAN: After 27 years Common Language Bookstore shutdown

$1.3B spending deal shifts funding for schools to roads and environmental clean-ups

teacher, coach allegedly bullied students in front of classmates

‘christian’ priest/coach bullies dead high school student at funeral!

MINNESOTA:  Sixth Chamber Used Books closing in March

Prison for teacher in sex abuse case

College teacher overheard a private conversation between students then decided to play thought-police and ordered one of the students to stay after class (like some Orwellian 1984 high schoolish bully-teacher), the student attacked the teacher and is now in jail

Regents approve $640,000 taxpayer funded salary for new University of Minnesota president

MISSISSIPPI: Virginia College shutdown shocks Mississippi students: “No one really just has an answer for us. It’s, ‘Well, you can try this place or this place.’ Our accreditation is good till the end of the month, but what does that do for me? Because this is a private college, so it’s not like I can go to Hinds, or Holmes, or Jackson State.”-Deonna Dillanes, student 

Over 17% of Mississippi students chronically absent 

MISSOURI: Teachers blow whistle on private-run torture chamber Parkville Children’s Cottage, pics back up claims (it’s not the first time the ‘school’ has been in trouble)

Charter School Teacher Charged With More Child Sex Crimes

Vatterott College stuns Saint Louis students with sudden closure

Saint Louis based Vatterott College blames federal Department of Education for shutting down its nationwide campuses, by blocking access to federal student loans

Small, rural districts driving increase in four-day school weeks

MONTANA:  On a Federal Reservation for Native Americans, Schools still Favor Whites

State Supreme Court strikes down tax credit for private schools

Not just a teacher shortage: Montana also struggles to find superintendents

sixth-grade teacher accused of sexual misconduct has license revoked

Longfellow Elementary closes it’s doors

NEBRASKA: 24 school districts rated as ‘needs improvement’ 

Yes, a school principal tried to ban candy canes

ACLU says Nebraska’s school cop program is actually covert ‘school to prison’ pipeline operation

teacher charged with sexual assault of multiple elementary students has history of ‘interactions’ with students

‘christian’ school teacher accused of sending sex Snapchats to high school students 

NEVADA: High school graduation rates hit record highs

State charter authority board says executive kept them in dark

ACLU condemns school background checks

NEW HAMPSHIRE: Teacher Arrested After Allegedly Exchanging More Than 100 Sexual Emails With Student

teacher on leave after KKK jingle

Six out of 10 High School teachers missed 10 or more days of work

National Guard Joins state Department Of Education For new war on drugs in classrooms

NEW JERSEY:  school district won’t compete in events officiated by ref who forced wrestler to cut his dreadlocks

PARCC graduation requirement struck down by state court

Jewish teacher sues Saint Joseph Regional High School 

teacher arrested for inappropriate contact with students

The 10,000 New Jersey Teachers Who Make $98K Or More

NEW MEXICO: New Mexico Public Schools Insurance Authority paid out $890,000 in settlements to alleged molestation victims of a teacher who had ties to another teacher recently convicted of sex crimes 

Was school principal, her husband, and an elementary teacher running a sex with children operation?

Is there a connection between a school shooting and an overworked teacher accused of sex crimes and ‘fixing’ grades? (the teacher was working as coach, math teacher and ethics teacher)

Revealed; Charter school gets taxpayer money for ‘non-students’

NEW YORK:  Herkimer College NY closing campus children’s center

Do Children Get a Subpar Education in Yeshivas?

state officials want $2.1 billion in additional in education funding!

Asian-Americans Sue New York City Over School Desegregation Plan

School for Blind Musicians Is Being Evicted 

NORTH CAROLINA: More than 2,000 teachers failed a math licensing exam!

students are missing a lot of school.

Man gets guns, backpack full of bullets into school cafeteria 

NORTH DAKOTA: In an effort to increase enrollments State Board of Higher Education mulls in-state tuition for some out-of-state students

$90-million in additional taxpayer funding to shore-up higher education means cuts elsewhere

board revokes license of teacher convicted of sex crimes

Positive behavior teacher fired after child pornography charges

teacher placed on administrative leave pending investigation

OHIO: Students Must Learn Cursive, it’s the law

TPS fires teacher accused of placing student in chokehold

Private school teacher accused of breaking 10-year-old student’s hand

Ohio eases graduation rules for high school 

Blanchester school board approves arming some staffers

New class created because Ohio women lack outdoors skills

Taxpayer funded state Education Department employee in trouble for selling cosmetics while on-the-clock

OKLAHOMA: Teacher shortage: Oklahoma nearing 2,900 non-accredited teachers

Oklahoma Education Association demands additional $150-million in taxpayer funding

Why Does Oklahoma Have So Many School Districts?

Oklahoma City Public Schools agrees to pay $400,000 in federal teacher harassment lawsuit

OREGON: Teachers Claim there is a Disruptive Student Problem

$1.4 million lawsuit accuses school disciplinary coach of battering 2 additional students

sexual misconduct cast shadow over Crusaders teacher

Substitute teacher banned after making joke about principal who killed his-self

sex-abuse conviction for substitute teacher, but only after years of lack-of-action by the criminal-courts, and only after a civil-court lawsuit revealed the truth

Junior and High school students to take mandatory mental health exams?

PENNSYLVANIA: What the average teacher earns in Pennsylvania

School districts can’t handle medical marijuana

Christian school fired teacher over her pregnancy

PUERTO RICO: FEMA promises more than $158-million for school ’emergency protective measures’

RHODE ISLAND: Students sue over lack of civics education

Warwick School Committee sues city, demands $4.9M taxpayer funded budget increase

Cranston School District hires debt collector to go after children who don’t pay school lunch bill

Schools report ‘totally unacceptable’

SOUTH CAROLINA: Myrtle Beach Golf Academy of America closing its doors: “One day we’re all good…….the next day it’s just over.”-Chase Collins, student

Teacher arrested for ‘playing doctor’ with student

Class sizes are ballooning amid teacher shortage crisis

Principal changed student-athlete’s grade, didn’t report harassment 

student taunting teacher gets suspended

9 Charleston County schools singled out for state intervention

SOUTH DAKOTA: teacher pleads guilty to DUI while driving school vehicle

School district forces taxpayers to buy new land for new junior high

TENNESSEE: Shelby County will consider closing up to 80 Schools

Christian school teacher arrested a second time for child sex crimes

Coach accused of attempting to show sex pics to student

Music teacher suspended over suspicions of inappropriate contact with three students

High School teacher charged with statutory rape 

teacher charged with meth possession

TEXAS: Austin ISD proposes closing 12 Schools

Corpus Christi’s Brightwood College campus is closing. Why?

School contractor Wouldn’t Promise Not to Boycott Israel, So they Stopped Paying Her!

TEXAS FAILED A GENERATION OF SPECIAL EDUCATION STUDENTS

UTAH: No more letter grades?

Shortage of special ed teachers

In Mormon dominated Utah it’s been proven that some students were discriminated against under the Mormon dominated public schools’ student fee policy!

students suspended for creating social media page that lampooned school shootings!

High school teacher charged with sexual battery of students

teacher accused of killing ex-husband’s girlfriend in front of 3-year-old twins

What happened to Mormon welfare agency Deseret? teacher runs food pantry in her classroom

soon-to-be closed elementary school is the first casualty of Utah’s school ‘turnaround’ program

VERMONT: Lawsuit challenging Vermont’s education funding 

teachers unions allege fraud in health benefits

forced merger lawsuit filed by 31 school boards

Police claim to have stopped student’s plan to shoot-up school

VIRGINIA: Teacher fired after refusing to use trans student’s pronouns

WASHINGTON: Are member dues pushing teachers out of union?

parents can now track their kids on school bus

Metallica donated $100,000 to Spokane Community College

schools serving up lunches made with local food

Father alleges autistic daughter abused, injured in high school

High school students struggle with addiction

child-care crunch takes toll

WASHINGTON DC: U.S. Department of Education to erase debts of teachers, fix grant program that was actually a covert loan op designed to entrap teachers into debt

WEST VIRGINIA: How low does West Virginia rank in teacher pay?

Opponents of Bible classes in taxpayer funded schools win 

WISCONSIN: Wisconsin’s Biggest Education Stories Of 2018

Remains of missing Wisconsin teacher found in Slovenia

‘white’ teacher on paid leave after students recorded her using a racial slur

Teacher beaten and robbed at elementary school, allegedly by ‘black’ man

WYOMING: Forgotten pencil stops possible school shooting (student was disarmed without the ‘help’ of police, yet when police finally arrived, after the ‘incident’,  the school was locked down)

Shortage of Special Educators

Dumbing Down the U.S.A., November 2018:“ALL HELL WILL BREAK LOOSE”