Teacher Fired After Allowing Students To Sled After Class

Teacher defends sled use in lesson
Richard Tremelling, 37, was fired from the Cefn Hengoed community school in Swansea after allowing a pair of 15-year-old Students to try out the Scandinavian-style racing sled he demonstrated in the snow, The Sun reported Tuesday. "He used the sledge on snow-covered slopes at the rear of the school," Rosa Fernandes, speaking on behalf of the school, told the Cardiff disciplinary hearing. "He failed to carry out appropriate risk assessments and failed to provide a written risk assessment. He didn...

Sledging 'lesson' teacher sacked
A teacher was sacked after bringing a sledge into school and allowing two pupils to ride on it, a disciplinary hearing has heard. Design teacher Richard Tremelling said he took it to Cefn Hengoed Community School, Swansea, in February 2009 as an example of "classic design". He was dismissed for failing to follow the school's Health and Safety policy. The General Teaching Council (GTC) committee found him guilty of unacceptable professional conduct. The professional conduct committ...

Seoul American High School teacher dies after battle with cancer
Seoul — Seoul American High School special education teacher Richard Mathis died Sunday at Yongsan Garrison’s Brian Allgood Army Community Hospital after an extended battle with Cancer, according to the Department of Defense Education Activity. Mathis, 64, was a retired U.S. Army master sergeant who began his career with DODEA in 1999 as a business education teacher at Ansbach High School in Germany. He transferred to Seoul American Elementary School in 2004, working as a special ...

Siberian cold stops German bicycle tourist
ULAN-UDE, Russia, Jan. 11 (UPI) -- Russian authorities said a German cyclist underestimated Siberia's brutal weather and wound up in a Hospital during a long-distance ride this week. Sven Riedel, 37, suffered a serious case of frostbite while attempting to pedal 300 kilometers (186.4 miles) from Ulan-Ude to Lake Baikal in eastern Siberia. "I wanted to see Lake Baikal," Riedel told Russia's Ria Novosti news agency. "I didn't think it would be so cold." Officials said it was actually plenty cold w...

Fighting for fish where's the catch?
Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall with mackerel, a fish that is much more sustainable than the cod, tuna and salmon on which the Fishing Industry relies. Photograph: Andrew Crowley The premise of my three-part series Hugh's Fish Fight (shown on Channel 4) is to highlight that the fish-eating habits of this nation are seriously misaligned with the long-term viability of our fisheries. More than half the fish we eat comes from just three species - cod, tuna and salmon. You don't have to think ...

Food foragers find fun and cash amid the wild fungi
Hunting may get more attention as a primal human endeavor, but for Connie Green, there's something even deeper and older: gathering. "I think it triggers something in people's brains that we're hard-wired for," she says. It "involves the joy of finding food, and it's really quite beyond our control in some way." Green is a professional forager. She makes her living gathering wild foods in the woods and selling them to chefs, stores and the occasional very lucky individual. Her tramps through Nor...

Apocalypse then: How a comet ended the Roman Empire
© Unknown A close shave with a comet nearly 1,500 years ago caused a catastrophic change in the global climate, leading to famine, plague, the end of the Roman Empire, the birth of the Dark Ages and even the legend of King Arthur, a leading British scientist said at the British Association meeting in London yesterday. Debris from the near miss bombarded the Earth with meteors, which threw enough dust and water vapour into the atmosphere to cut out sunlight and cool the planet to cause cr...

Rhode Island gears up as major storm bears down
Steven Rego, DOT heavy equipment operator, mixes salt and sand together at the Department of Transportation facility in Portsmouth in preparation for Wednesday’s anticipated snowstorm. Snow that emptied the world’s busiest airport and caused six Southern Governors to declare emergencies Monday is heading for us Tuesday evening, with the National Weather Service already advising Southern New England emergency planners to cancel the Wednesday morning commute. A winter storm watch has b...

Important 2010 movies that weren't released in most of the USA
These are the ones that are popping up most often on the "Best of 2010" lists, although some of them have earlier formal release dates, often because of Cannes.  Most of these have been shown only in New York and Los Angeles, but they all are likely to appear on Netflix and some are there already. 1. Valhalla Rising, an English-language but Danish production about early Scandinavian visitors to the New World.  It's violent and arty at the same time and it was on...

Tribal feuds threaten Jordan's stability
SALT, Jordan (Reuters) - A sleepy Jordanian town erupts in violence last year after a young man is killed in a police shootout. Members of his Khrisat and Salt tribes clash with police, throwing stones, smashing ATM machines and burning police cars. The two-day rampage in the hillside town of Salt ends when Khrisat tribal elders sign a deal over cups of Arabic coffee with authorities to apply Atwa, a tribal truce granted to calm the fury between conflicting parties in an incident that normally ...

Student petrol bomb footage shown
Does Rioting change anything? Police have released video footage of a man throwing a petrol bomb in Central London during December's Student Protest. The footage shows a man running with a rucksack with a petrol bomb in Parliament Square on 9 December. Protests took place in Central London in November and December in response to the rise in Tuition fees. Police released images and footage of suspects they wished to trace in connection to the violent disorder. The Metropolitan Police (Met) h...

Student awards cut to foster teamwork in B.C., Alberta
Online Digest Jan. 13, 2011 Aileen Donnelly, National Post with files from Postmedia News · Thursday, Jan. 13, 2011 Some schools in British Columbia and Alberta have cancelled year-end award ceremonies for Students’ academic and athletic achievements, saying they give students the wrong kind of motivation and ignore other pupils’ talents and interests. “Someone who would usually get that award or is a strong learner will focus on the criteria and hit the checklist to get t...

EU students 'cost Scotland 75m'
The cost of European Students studying in Scotland has quadrupled in nearly a decade, with the Holyrood government having to pick up the bill. A record number of EU students, 15,930, are now attending Scots institutions, costing the Taxpayer £75m a year. Education Secretary Mike Russell is seeking an end to what is seen as a cheap option for Europeans who would have to pay for education at home. European law means the Scottish Government is obliged to pay the fees of Students living in non...

Tucson memorial service turns into pep rally by raucous students
In what had been expected to be a solemn memorial service for those who had died during the shooting instead was turned into something resembling a pep rally before a football game by Students from the University of Arizona. Perhaps the setting, the music that was more appropriate for a marching parade, and the rows of politicians, confused the students. Apparently they thought that shouting, whistling, and high-fiving was appropriate behavior in remembering those who had died on that tragic Sat...

Diversity Thursday
We watched last year as the U.S. Coast Guard Academy was mau-mau'd away from a meritocracy towards - literally - a place where Congress removed a prohibition to NOT discriminate against anyone based on race, creed, color, or national origin. Seriously - click here for review. So, where does that put them now? Oh, of course - ear deep in the Diversity Industry's fetid scab of sectarianism and grievance; candy coated Racist policies and hiring those who judge people first by the color of their s...

Fascism By Any Other Name
Originally published by Salon on December 7, 1998. Huey Long was once asked whether he thought fascism could ever come to America. His answer was “Yeah, but it’ll come calling itself anti-fascism.” America isn’t close to such a future, but I couldn’t help thinking about Long’s comment in connection with an episode that occurred recently at my Alma Mater. The occasion was a conference at Columbia University, scheduled by a conservative organization called Acc...

University Of Maryland Student Justin DeSha-Overcash Was Slain Over Marijuana
baltimoresun.com: Prince George's County Police are identifying the University of Maryland Student shot to death at a home just off campus. It's one of 13 homicides in 11 days in the county. Read the whole story: baltimoresun.com Get HuffPost College On Twitter and Facebook! ...

WHS students to present 2 'wild and wacky' plays
Watertown High School Drama Club adviser and English teacher Leonard J. Planes said there's no serious message behind Friday and Saturday's performances by the club. "It's just wild and wacky," he said, but after more consideration, he realized it may have some redeeming value. "Well, if anyone wants to come and find out how not to do a good interview, this is how to do it," he said. Students in the drama club, along with the 10th-period acting elective class at the school, will st...

School Hands Out Misdemeanor Tickets To Elementary School Students...
School lockers at a High School in Houston, Texas. (credit: AP) Dallas (CBSDFW.COM) - Court has become a deterrent instead of detention for some North Texas Students. The social and economic group Texas Appleseed collected five years worth of data from 22 districts across the state and found young students, including a six year old in Dallas, who received class C Misdemeanor tickets for things like disrupting class, leaving school early and school yard brawls that didn’t include weap...

Dismissal of suit in sex case sought
The Wendrows sued in 2008 after police arrested Julian Wendrow and accused him of sexually assaulting his 13-year-old daughter, who is mute, severely disabled and autistic. The case was largely based on typed statements the child reportedly made, using a teacher's aid at school, where she accused her father of raping her since age 7 while her mother, Thal Wendrow, stood by. Julian and Thal Wendrow were jailed, and their Children placed in Foster Care f...

The Trade-Off: Should We Commit Mentally Unstable People?
"There are no solutions. There are only trade-offs." -- Thomas Sowell James Lee Lougher, the shooter in the Tucscon massacre, was a scary dude and lot of people knew he had serious issues before he went on a rampage. After he was accused of shooting 20 people last Saturday, school officials described his behavior while at Pima as odd and disruptive. But police reports show in chilling detail that the behavior frightened Students and teachers. In February, a rattled student told school officials...

Indian River's system proves effective
When other Frontier League boys Basketball teams introduce their Starting Lineups prior to a game, it's pretty much a generic announcement with year in school, height and position. But at Indian River, they do it a little differently. In addition to the usual stats, players are introduced by their hometowns. And this season, unlike any other since the expansion of Fort Drum, the roster is filled with many more players who hail from out of the area than are Warriors born and bred. In fact, ...

Edward Woollard, UK Student Protester, Sentenced To 32 Months
Edward Woollard, 18, the British Student who threw an empty fire extinguisher off of the roof of a building during a Tuition Protest in early November, was sentenced to 32 months in Prison for violent disorder Tuesday, reports Sky News. According to the Daily Mail, Woollard was participating in what was supposed to be a peaceful Protest against Tuition hikes with the National Union of Students. The rally took an aggressive turn when some students broke through the glass entrance to the conserv...

Shooting Suspect's Downward Spiral...
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Life terms for murdering brothers
Two brothers who killed a man in front of his sons during a pre-arranged fight in Glasgow have been jailed for life. Angus Malavin, 26, and his 17-year-old brother Zak were previously convicted of murdering Andrew Curran, 41, in Maryhill Park last April. The High Court in Glasgow heard how he died from a sword wound to the neck. Judge Lord Matthews ordered Angus Malavin to serve a minimum of 18 years while his younger brother will be detained for a minimum 17 years. Co-accused Steven Souley, 21...