To make those little hearts go pitter patter. Parents at a San Francisco school are paying $71,000 for a gym teacher to provide class for kids in kindergarten through fifth grade. The position was previously eliminated because of budget cuts. (The Bay Citizen)
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Because love, and apparently confusion, are blind. A new mobile app marketed toward schools allows students to submit questions, participate in class polls, and even set their status to “confused” so the teacher knows to address them. (Mashable)
We think some apology roses are in order. A Connecticut school board is calling for one of its members to resign after she sent Facebook messages to another member, promising to “bulldoze” her. (The Hartford Courant)
All’s fair in love and war. How do you tell if someone is lying on an online dating site? For one, they don’t use “I” in their descriptions, according to University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers. (University of Wisconsin-Madison News)
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