A Dallas music teacher may be this season's "Grinch" after telling a group of first-graders there is no such thing as Santa Claus. As a result, the school has been inundated with parental complaints, and the Richardson School District has issued a pro-Santa statement.

A 70-year-old grandmother and Sunday school teacher is charged with stealing a baby Jesus statue from an Arkansas town's nativity scene. Virginia Voiers says she thought she was just taking part in a rambunctious holiday prank, when a witness called Eureka Springs police on her.

Bennington, Vermont (AHN) A teacher in Bennington is being questioned after giving his students a quiz that has been perceived by some as being full of anti-Bush rhetoric.

A Florida school teacher will serve no time in prison as part of plea agreement in which she pleads guilty to having sex with a 14-year-old middle school student. 25-year old Debra Lafave pleads guilty to two counts of lewd and lascivious battery. She will serve three years of house arrest and seven years probation.

On behalf of an unmarried, pregnant teacher, the New York Civil Liberties Union has filed a federal discrimination complaint against a Catholic school. The NYCLU contends the school unlawfully fired the teacher because of her pregnancy situation. "I don't understand how a religion that prides itself on forgiving and on valuing life could terminate me because I'm pregnant and choosing to have this baby," Michelle McCusker said Monday at a news conference announcing the suit.