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NJ Man Accused Of Having Sexual Relationships With 2 Former Students In WV: Sheriff NJ Man Accused Of Having Sexual Relationships With 2 Former Students In WV: Sheriff
NJ Man Accused Of Having Sexual Relationships With 2 Former Students In WV: Sheriff A 50-year-old New Jersey man was arrested on accusations he had a sexual relationship with two students while working as a substitute teacher in West Virginia more than 20 years ago. Brian Kain, of Brick Township, was arrested by detectives with the Monongalia County Sheriff’s Office on Thursday, Sept. 12, the office said in a news release. He was charged with two counts of sexual abuse by a person in a position of trust to a child. Kain worked as a substitute teacher for Monongalia High School at the time of the alleged incidents between 2000 and 2004, authorities said. He&n…

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by Cecilia Levine
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NJ Prep School Teacher Says Divisive Policies Forced Her To Quit NJ Prep School Teacher Says Divisive Policies Forced Her To Quit
NJ Prep School Teacher Says Divisive Policies Forced Her To Quit A Bergen County prep school teacher says a "hostile culture of conformity and fear" drove her to quit her job. Dana Stangel-Plowe said students entered her English class at Dwight-Englewood High School seeing themselves "not as individuals, but as representatives of a group, forcing them to adopt the status of privilege or victimhood." Then came "accepting as fact" that "people born with less melanin in their skin are oppressors, and people born with more melanin in their skin are oppressed," Stangel-Plowe wrote in her resignation letter.  "Men are oppressors, women are oppressed, and so …

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by Cecilia Levine & Jerry DeMarco
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Tenafly 5th Grader Dresses As Hitler For Class Project: ‘Pretty Great Wasn’t I?' Tenafly 5th Grader Dresses As Hitler For Class Project: ‘Pretty Great Wasn’t I?'
Tenafly 5th Grader Dresses As Hitler For Class Project: ‘Pretty Great Wasn’t I?' As Memorial Day approached, a fifth-grade student at a Tenafly school dressed as Adolph Hitler and handwrote a list of “accomplishments” in an essay that was hung in a hallway among those about historical figures, outraged parents said Monday. Tenafly Schools Supt. Shauna DeMarco told them that she’s investigating the incident at the Ralph S. Maugham School. "We are on top of this at multiple levels and will determine proper actions once due process has been afforded to all involved parties and a full investigation has been completed," the superintendent wrote in an email to parents. ****…

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by Jerry DeMarco