The school board here decided Friday to fire a science teacher accused of burning a cross on a student's arm and teaching creationism in his class. The board, however, will give John Freshwater, 51, of Mount Vernon Middle School two weeks to appeal the decision to end his contract and argue his case before the firing is made official on July 7.

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.

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

Teachers and officials at a coed British school were shocked to see a class with an all-boy attendance on the first day of school. For the first time since it opened 30 years ago Bassetts Farm, a primary school with a population equally split between girls and boys, suddenly had a class of 20 4-year old boys, an occurrence that is still puzzling people.

A grade school teacher was meted suspension after her own pupils claimed they saw her in a steamy advertisement for work clothes wherein she appeared simulating sex with a builder. However, Sarah Green claims the video for Scruffs Hardwear was shot before she collared the $15,000-a-year as an English teacher at Stockport Grammar School.