Lead Stories
In October a first-grade teacher in Rialto, California, taped a disruptive student’s head to a classroom wall. Also in October seventh-grade teacher Carrie White was accused of flinging a dictionary and a calculator at two unruly students in Lodi, Ohio. In June high school substitute teacher Steven M. Catena was fired in Keansburg, New Jersey, after reports that he wrapped one student in masking tape and butcher paper in class and suggested students give another classmate a “swirly” (dunk his head in a toilet and flush). And in Durban, South Africa, in May, a high school teacher and principal pulled guns and opened fire on students who were protesting higher fees.
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Diana Thorneycroft’s government-supported art exhibit on view in September in Winnipeg consisted of 12 dead rabbits hung from trees in the woods outside town. Said the artist, “I’m celebrating the gloriousness of putrefaction.” And in November an artist submitting a project for a show in the village of Accrington, England, acceded to sponsors’ wishes and redesigned his exhibit of live maggots, which was opposed by environmental officials.
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