A local substitute teacher was terminated from his post here after being accused of performing "wizardry. "According to Jim Piculas, a substitute teacher at the Rushe Middle School in Pasco County, he was removed from his post last January, with officials bearing their accusations on a disappearing-toothpick act that he performed for his students a week before.

Almost six thousand emailed responses favoring the retention of the Lord's Prayer in Ontario's Legislature's opening ceremony is not convincing enough for Premier Dalton McGuinty to change his mind. He is still determined to remove the Pater Noster, even if one of those opposed to his move is his mother, a staunch Roman Catholic.

A local school was sent up in panic when an 8-year old student brought a genuine World War II hand grenade for the class's show and tell. The weapon, an Mk2 grenade, was found in the backpack of a third-grade student, who admitted bringing the item to show the entire class of the Ezra Baker School

A local elementary school was bombarded with angry comments for instigating a cross-dress day that gave students the option to dress like the opposite sex. The Pineview Elementary School was criticized by the Voice of Christian Youth America, a radio network that attacked the school for telling its students to either dress as an old person or one of the opposite sex, in observance of the school's Wacky Week.

British school teachers are advocating for education reforms, including a return to an early 1980s style of teaching, characterized by a strong liberal education. In essence, teachers are calling for more hours for play and less rigid methods in teaching young Britons how to read. Steve Sinnott, general secretary of the National Union of Teachers, told Guardian Unlimited, "Teachers want a return to a system which is liberal and flexible and not top-down and imposed by government. We want a return to a time when there was a potential for magic moments in the classroom. "