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Paterson Teacher Who Stopped Moving Bus To Hit, Curse Out Kid Won't Work In Any Classroom Again Paterson Teacher Who Stopped Moving Bus To Hit, Curse Out Kid Won't Work In Any Classroom Again
Paterson Teacher Who Stopped Moving Bus To Hit, Curse Out Kid Won't Work In Any Classroom Again A Paterson teacher who stopped a school bus on a highway to curse at a student who apparently chucked a snowball at his car had his teaching licenses revoked by state officials. Nathaniel T. Gerson -- a math teacher since 1999 at the district's Don Bosco Technology Academy -- had left for the day when the incident occurred on Route 20 northbound, the State Board of Examiners said. He was driving alongside a school bus when an 11-year-old boy chucked a melting snowball at his car, the report says. Gerson blew his horn and motioned for the bus to stop, positioning his car in front of the…

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Education Officials: Newark Teacher Hit On Female Teens, Threw Pencil At Student's Eye Education Officials: Newark Teacher Hit On Female Teens, Threw Pencil At Student's Eye
Education Officials: Newark Teacher Hit On Female Teens, Threw Pencil At Student's Eye A Newark teacher who threw a pencil at a student hemorrhaging his eye and made inappropriate remarks to a 16-year-old female student had his education licenses revoked by state officials. Troubles began with Kenyada A. Mitchell in 2012, when he approached a 16-year-old female student identified in a report by the State Board of Examiners as D.W., the Newark school district reported. The teen was wearing a skirt when Mitchell, then 33, asked for her cell phone number and told her that if she bent over he'd "be able to see her a**," the district said. Mitchell also told D.W. on a different o…

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Jersey City Teacher Who Sexually Assaulted Teen Has License Suspended Jersey City Teacher Who Sexually Assaulted Teen Has License Suspended
Jersey City Teacher Who Sexually Assaulted Teen Has License Suspended A former second grade Jersey City teacher who admit to sexually assaulting a teen in her Lyndhurst home more than three years ago had her teaching license revoked by state officials. Lauren Coyle-Mitchell, 36, pleaded guilty in Bergen County Superior Court last January to aggravated sexual assault and endangering the welfare of a child, the State Board of Examiners said.  Coyle-Mitchell worked at Dr. Lena Edwards Academic Charter School in Jersey City, according to NJ.com. Her colleagues went to Lyndhurst police after a field trip and reported her having inappropriate contact with a 15-yea…

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