Sheep-Skinned Wolves > The Emma Fretton Story

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Over the past few years I have had the privilege of writing Emma's Story with her even while she lives in Australia and I in Canada. It's a true story and a disturbing one on many levels. But it is also just one of millions of such stories that are not being told and are being largely ignored by governments, the press, and even churches around the world.

Gary Wm. Myers

Sheep-Skinned Wolves: The Emma Fretton Story

by Emma Joy Fretton (Author), Gary Wm Myers (Author)

Emma excitedly enters primary school anticipating good things, but almost immediately is physically, sexually, and emotionally abused by her paedophile teacher. She's courageous enough to report the horrible abuse, but the school administration's response was frustrating and infuriating, making promises that were never kept and even lying to her face. Inexplicably, the school, a Christian school, allows the deviate teacher to continue terrifying and torturing Emma for several years. What that does to Emma is devastating on so many levels. How could this have happened in a Christian school?

Child sexual abuse is far more prevalent than most people would believe, affecting as many as 1 in 3 girls and 1 in 6 boys. The effects are almost always life-long and very negative. In the Appendix, Gary, the co-author, describes these effects as well as signs to help identify when sexual abuse is occurring to your child. There is a wealth of other information on paedophilia learned from more than 6,500 blog posts over the past 12 years.

Islam in Europe > 4 Muslims arrested for planning terror attack in Denmark; 12 y/o Girl Threatens teacher with knife in France

 

You can read this article and get most of the way through it thinking they are talking about a far-right organization rather than a Muslim, Jihadi gang. European news sources are still protecting terrorists over Europeans. Go figure!

Four arrested in Denmark, Netherlands

on suspicion of planning terror attacks

Three people were arrested in coordinated actions across Denmark and one person in the Netherlands on suspicion of plotting to carry out “an act of terror,” Danish police said Thursday. 

The operational chief of Denmark’s Security and Intelligence Service, Flemming Drejer (R), and the senior police inspector and head of emergency services in the Copenhagen Police, Peter Dahl, hold a press briefing on a coordinated police action in Copenhagen on December 14, 2023. © Martin Sylvest, AFP

By:NEWS WIRES

Flemming Drejer, operative head of Denmark’s Security and Intelligence Service, known by its acronym PET, said that Denmark was not changing the terror threat level, which has been at “serious,” the second-highest level, since 2010. 

He added that the case had “threads abroad” and “was related to criminal gangs,” singling out the banned gang Loyal to Familia. 

In January 2020, a Danish court upheld a nationwide police ban on the gang, saying that the LTF should be dissolved as illegal under Denmark’s constitution.

The gang had been behind gang feuds, violence, robberies, extortion and drug sales in the Danish capital and “had used violence and illegal means to achieve its goal," the Copenhagen District Court said then. In September 2018, police in Denmark issued a temporary ban against the LTF and said anyone seen wearing its logo could face prosecution.

”Persons abroad have been charged," he said.

"It is a serious situation,” Drejer told a press conference, adding the arrests were “carried out in close collaboration with our foreign partners,” and said those arrested were part of “a network.” 

Drejer added that the suspects would face a custody hearing within 24 hours, likely behind “double closed doors,” meaning that he could not give details about the case, any target or motive. 

"This is extremely serious," Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen said at a European Union summit in Brussels. "It shows the situation we are in in Denmark. Unfortunately.” 

“It is absolutely true when both (Denmark's intelligence agencies) say that there is a high risk in Denmark,” Frederiksen said. “It is of course completely unacceptable in relation to Israel and Gaza, that there is someone who takes a conflict somewhere else in the world into Danish society.”

Earlier this month, the European Union’s home affairs commissioner, Ylva Johansson, warned that Europe faces a “huge risk of terrorist attacks” over the Christmas holiday period due to the fallout from the war between Israel and the Palestinian militant group Hamas.

Fatal shootings in 2022, 2015

In July 2022, a gunman at a shopping mall in Copenhagen killed three people and injured seven. The man, who believed the victims were zombies, was sentenced in July to detention in a secure medical facility. He had been charged with murder and attempted murder in the rampage at the huge Field’s shopping center on the outskirts of Copenhagen.

In 2015, a 22-year-old D
anish Muslim gunman killed two people and wounded five others at a free speech event and a synagogue in Copenhagen.

Earlier this month, the Danish parliament passed a law making it illegal to desecrate any holy text, after a handful of anti-Islam activists carried out public desecrations of the Quran, sparking angry demonstrations in Muslim countries.

(AP)

Teachers in France should demand "danger pay"!

Pupil, 12, threatens teacher with knife as tensions simmer

in French schools

A 12-year-old schoolgirl threatened a teacher with a kitchen knife in an apparent murder attempt at a school in northern France on Wednesday, prosecutors said, the latest in a growing number of incidents that have raised tensions in the French education system.

Issued on: 13/12/2023 - 17:03Modified: 13/12/2023 - 20:44

2 min

Teachers from Kleber secondary school in Strasbourg, eastern France, hold a banner decrying violence and a lack of resources available to them, Strasbourg, eastern France, December 7, 2023. © Frederick Florin, AFP

By:NEWS WIRES

No-one was injured in the incident during English class in the northwestern city of Rennes but prosecutors said that they have opened a criminal investigation into attempted murder.

"This morning, a pupil threatened a teacher with a knife during a lesson. The pupils, shocked, were immediately moved to safety," the local education authority said in a statement.

Born in 2011, the schoolgirl "came to class armed with a large knife with the apparent intention of killing her English teacher," said Rennes prosecutor Rennes Philippe Astruc.

"During the lesson, in class, she brandished the knife at the victim who fled running," before she was disarmed by staff of the Hautes Ourmes junior high school, he added.

At a later press conference, he showed drawings of the kitchen knife, which he said was 17 centimetres (6.7 inches) long.

The prosecutor said the girl was currently undergoing psychiatric examinations in hospital "which will allow us to shed further light on this situation."

He said it appeared that the "psychological or even psychiatric aspect" seemed to him "dominant in the act of this minor".

As it is with all radical Muslims who act out. Which is why they should all be segregated from sane society.

'Like Arras' 

The suspect is the eldest of four children in a family of Mongolian origin, with residency in France and who arrived in Rennes in 2012.

There have been growing tensions in schools in France, which has large Muslim and Jewish communities, sometimes linked to the war between Israel and Palestinian Islamist group Hamas.

In October, a radicalised Islamist stabbed his former teacher Dominique Bernard to death in the northern town of Arras.

Earlier this week teachers at a school outside of Paris refused to work after a group of pupils objected to the showing in class of a painting by Renaissance master Giuseppe Cesari containing several nude women.

Meanwhile, a French court last week convicted six teenagers for their role in the 2020 killing of teacher Samuel Paty outside his secondary school near Paris by a radicalised Islamist.

Education Minister Gabriel Attal said he gave his "absolute support to the teacher" hailing "the immense courage and composure of the staff on site who were able to react to this threat".

"I appreciate the trauma that this attack constitutes for her (the English teacher) and for the entire teaching community."

A young girl from the school told AFP on condition of anonymity that there had been a dispute between the schoolgirl and the teacher who allegedly confiscated her cell phone last Friday. 

She said the schoolgirl declared in front of her classmates that she was going to kill the teacher and "do like in Arras" but "no one took her seriously".

(AFP)

Take lunatics seriously people, even if the media doesn't!

Islam - Current Day > ISIS Fighter Guilty of Yazidi Genocide; Saudis Buy Votes to Cancel UN HR Probe; UN's Astonishing Anti-Semitism; Teacher Beaten-up by Student; Fake Dr.

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ISIS fighter found guilty of genocide in first conviction of its kind

30 Nov, 2021 13:12

Iraqi defendant Taha Al-Jumailly covers his face as he arrives at a courtroom in Frankfurt, Germany.

© Reuters / Frank Rumpenhorst

29-year-old former ISIS militant Taha Al-Jumailly has been handed a life sentence by a German court for genocide and crimes against humanity over the persecution of the Yazidi minority, marking the first conviction of its kind.

The Frankfurt court’s judgement marks the first time that a verdict has used the term ‘genocide’ in the conviction of an ex-ISIS fighter.

Having joined ISIS in 2013, Al-Jumailly was found guilty of genocide, crimes against humanity, war crimes, aiding and abetting war crimes, and bodily harm resulting in death.

Speaking following the conclusion of the case, Natia Navrouzov, a member of the non-governmental organization Yazda, celebrated the conviction.

“It is the first time in Yazidi history that a perpetrator stands in a court of law for genocide charges,” Navrouzov said as quoted by AFP, calling it a “historical moment for the Yazidi community.”

And long overdue!

After the verdict was delivered, the court session had to be suspended because the defendant passed out.

During the case, prosecutors stated that Al-Jumailly and ex-wife Jennifer Wenisch bought and held Yazidis as slaves while living in Mosul during its ISIS occupation. After moving to Fallujah, Al-Jumailly stood accused of letting a five-year-old girl die of thirst after chaining her outdoors.

Wenisch was previously sentenced to 10 years behind bars for “crimes against humanity” and aiding and abetting the girl’s death by failing to stop her then-husband’s actions.

Germany has a significant Yazidi population, believed to be the largest grouping of the religious minority outside of Iraq. Yazidis – primarily from Iraq, as well as Iran, Syria, and Turkey – were targeted by ISIS due to the militant group’s view that they were heretics and did not follow true Islamic teachings. During the occupation of Mosul, it is thought that more than 6,400 Yazidis were kidnapped by ISIS.

Saudis mounted covert campaign to kill UN Yemen vote – media

2 Dec, 2021 15:31

Saudi army artillery fire shells towards Yemen from the Saudi-Yemeni border. April 13, 2015. 

© AFP PHOTO / FAYEZ NURELDINE

An intensive secret lobbying campaign by Saudi Arabia, featuring “incentives and threats,” reportedly succeeded in shutting down a UN investigation into human rights violations committed in the Yemen conflict this year.

Citing sources with close knowledge of the process, The Guardian reported that the Saudi carrot and stick approach forced members of the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) to vote against extending the independent war crimes probe in October. 

It marked the first time a UNHRC resolution had been defeated in the agency’s 15-year history. The vote saw a majority of 21 countries oppose the motion to allow the Group of Eminent Experts (GEE) on Yemen an additional two years to investigate. A previous vote in 2020 to extend their term had been opposed by only 12 countries.

“That kind of swing – from 12 no’s to 21 – does not just happen,” one official told the paper, which reported that “alarm bells” rang for the measure’s supporters a week before the vote about how the Saudi campaign was apparently “very different” from previous years. 

According to the report, Saudi Arabia warned Indonesia – the world’s most populous Muslim country – that it would not recognize the Covid-19 vaccination credentials of citizens who were looking to travel to the holy city of Mecca if it didn’t reject the resolution. Indonesia ended up casting an opposing vote.

Meanwhile, the foreign minister of Togo – which also opposed the motion – announced at the time of the vote that the African nation would open a new embassy in Riyadh, and receive Saudi financial support to support anti-terrorism efforts. Both Togo and Indonesia had abstained from voting in 2020.

In addition, Senegal – another of the four countries that shifted from abstaining to opposing the motion – signed an agreement with the United Arab Emirates (UAE) to establish a bilateral business council to “boost cooperation” a week after the vote. The UAE is Saudi Arabia’s coalition ally in Yemen.

Describing the episode as a “travesty,” Human Rights Watch Director John Fisher said the Saudis and their coalition allies were “working at a high level for some time... through a mixture of threats and incentives” to persuade countries.

While Saudi Arabia initially supported the creation of the GEE in 2017, sources told The Guardian that it had been put off by “damning” reports produced by the body over the years.

So, Yemen is left to hang-out and dry and the Saudis can continue to pound their markets with serious weapons, most of which they acquired from the USA.

U.N. Passes Controversial Resolution Calling Temple Mount

Only by its Muslim Name

Michael Foust |

ChristianHeadlines.com Contributor | 

Thursday, December 2, 2021

The United Nations passed a controversial resolution Wednesday that criticizes Israel and calls the Temple Mount only by its Muslim name, Haram al‑Sharif.

The resolution passed easily, 129-11, although Israel, the United States, Canada and Australia all opposed it.

The Temple Mount is the site of the first temple that was built by Solomon and destroyed by the Babylonians, and of the second temple that was destroyed by the Romans. It was this second temple that Jesus visited. The Western Wall, where Jews pray, is part of the Temple Mount structure. The Temple Mount also is considered holy within Islam.

The resolution says, “any actions taken by Israel, the occupying Power, to impose its laws, jurisdiction and administration on the Holy City of Jerusalem are illegal.” Significantly, the resolution does not contain the phrase “Temple Mount” but instead refers to it as Haram al-Sharif – the Muslim term for the site.

The resolution calls for “upholding unchanged the historic status quo at the Haram al-Sharif” – although that term itself was seen by Israel as changing the dynamics.

“By referring to the holiest site in Judaism, the Temple Mount, only by its Muslim name, the resolution itself is changing the status quo,” said Israel’s Ambassador to the United Nations, Gilad Erdan. “The hypocrisy of these resolutions is truly outrageous.”

U.S. Ambassador Richard Erdman also criticized the language, saying he had “serious concern” about the terminology and that the U.N. should have used language it has used in the past: “Haram al-Sharif/Temple Mount,” which he called “agreed terminology that recognizes the shared and diverse history of the holy site.”

“The omission of this inclusive terminology is of real and sincere concern,” Erdman said. “It is morally, historically, and politically wrong for the members of this body to support language that denies both the Jewish and Muslim connections to the Temple Mount and Haram al-Sharif.”

Not to mention the Christian connection!

Teacher beaten up for telling pupil not to harass female student

Student admits to insulting and beating up his teacher

Published:  December 04, 2021 15:39

Tawfiq Nasrallah, Senior News Editor

Gulf News

Dubai: A 15-year-old Egyptian student has assaulted his teacher for telling him to stop verbally harassing a female student from of their school, Egyptian media reported.

The incident took place in Beheira Governorate, northern Egypt.  According to Beheira police, the 57-year-old teacher filed a case against the student accusing him of beating and insulting him in front of students.

Witnesses said there was a commotion while the student was attacking the teacher and screams of female students were heard. Other teachers came to the rescue of the teacher and held the student until the police arrived.

On interrogation, the student admitted to beating and insulting his teacher for telling him to stop harassing a female student.

Beheira police has notified the ministry of education to take necessary action from its side.

This not the first time teachers get beaten by students. Earlier last month, an Egyptian teacher was beaten up by a student and his father for suspending him from class and asking him to bring his dad to school. The incident took place in Dakahlia Governorate at the Counselor Mahmoud Barham School for Basic Education.

Baheira, Egypt

Two Bangladeshis arrested for practising medical profession

with fake degrees

Suspects admitted most of patients are violators of residency laws, repeat offenders

Published:  December 04, 2021 16:07

Tawfiq Nasrallah, Senior News Editor

  

Dubai: Two Bangladeshi citizens have been arrested in Kuwait for practising the medical profession with fake university certificates, Kuwaiti media reported.

Acting on a tipoff, Farwaniya police caught Bangladeshi doctor and nurse red-handed while treating people in their apartment in Al Hasawi area, which they turned it into an unlicensed clinic to 'treat' patients.

According to Al Qabs newspaper, the two suspects have been under surveillance for three days.

Upon raiding the apartment, the police caught the two suspects red-handed and found large quantities of drugs in their flat. During interrogation, the duo admitted that most of their customers are violators of residency laws and repeat offenders who cannot visit hospitals.

Florida Teacher Diane Tirado Was Fired For Giving Zeros To Students That Failed To Hand In Their Work

This Politically Correct, New Age philosophy is completely dishonest

By Bernadette Deron, ati

“It’s absurd to give someone something for nothing and 

to do that is creating a future that is pretty darn bleak."

Diane Tirado

Diane Tirado was fired from her school after giving students zeros for not handing in homework.

An eighth-grade teacher in Florida has gone on the offensive against her former school after she claimed to have been fired for doling out “zero” grades to students who failed to hand in their homework.

Social studies teacher Diane Tirado, 52, was fired from West Gate K-8 School in Port St. Lucie in south Florida after she had been working there for just two months.

Apparently, the school employs a “no zero” policy that Tirado is said to have violated after a group of students failed to hand in one of their first major assignments of the school year. This resulted in Tirado’s forced departure.

The assignment that ended Tirado’s career called for the students to keep an “explorer’s notebook” for two weeks in the same way a 15th-century explorer might have kept a journal in their time.

Diane Tirado claims that parents complained to her over the workloads that their kids received and criticized the teacher of 17 years for giving the eighth graders too much to handle.

“I got called down to the principal’s office because parents were not happy with me,” Tirado said in an interview. “It was ruining my life for weeks.”

She said that during this meeting the principal informed her of the alleged “no zero” policy: “I was not allowed to give anything lower than a 50.”

The school that Tirado was fired from was West Gate K-8 School in Port St. Lucie, Florida.  Dreamstime.com

But after a group of students from her class didn’t hand in any work at all, Tirado felt that they didn’t deserve any credit at all, let alone 50 percent, and so handed them “zero” grades.

“I’m used to kids not handing in work… but then chasing them until the report cards are in to make sure they make it up with extra credit,” she said. “But I don’t give a grade for nothing.”

Tirado was fired on Sept. 14, and the principal’s letter of termination reportedly mentioned no official cause for her dismissal. The teacher says that this is because she was working under her probationary period at the time she was fired, which doesn’t require that an explicit reason be stated.

But Tirado believes that it was the “zero” grades that caused her firing. “I refused to do their policy. I guess you would call that defiance,” she said. “I have been fired for refusing to give you a 50 percent for not handing anything in.”

The school, however, said that their alleged “no zero” policy doesn’t exist. “There is no district or individual school policy prohibiting teachers from recording a grade of zero for work not turned in,” the school’s spokesman reported.

But Tirado says that the policy is clearly outlined in the school’s West Gate student and parent handbook. An image she shared with the Post states in bright red capital letters, “NO ZERO’S – LOWEST POSSIBLE GRADE IS 50%.”

A screen shot of the “no zero” policy allegedly taken out of the school’s handbook.

This school’s alleged “no zero” policy is an example of one of the latest parenting trends known as the “participation trophy” which claims that rewarding kids for mere participation will boost their self-esteem. Those that support “participation trophies” believe that eliminating the possibility of a “loser” gives all kids the recognition required to improve their confidence.

But critics of this style of child-rearing say that this hinders children from reaching their ultimate abilities by eliminating the concept of a “loser” in academics and other activities.

It also rewards them for doing nothing, or, even worse, for ignoring what is required of them. It is, in fact, teaching them to be losers. 

Giving 50% for 0% effort is completely dishonest. It is no wonder the principal denied that the policy exists. Dishonesty appears to be part of the culture these days.

Tirado is one such critic: “It’s absurd to give someone something for nothing and to do that is creating a future that is pretty darn bleak.”

“We’re creating monsters out of our children,” she added. “We have a nation of kids that are expecting to get paid and live their life just for showing up and it’s not real…people that experience that kind of childhood…then you’re entitled for the rest of your life.”

An attitude of entitlement makes for good liberals!

Paris Teacher Fatally Stabbed in Throat by Former Student - a Pakistani Immigrant

© Google Maps

A teacher at Léonard-de-Vinci University near Paris has died, after being stabbed in the throat by a former student in front of the institution. The attacker is of Pakistani descent.

The victim, a 66-year-old English teacher, was stabbed in the throat in front of Léonard-de-Vinci University on Wednesday, Le Parisien reported. The suspect is a Pakistani male, 37, who had been expelled from the institution last year.

According to Le Parisien, the assailant had failed his 2017 school year and was not allowed to progress with his studies. He returned to the university around noon on Wednesday and took his revenge, stabbing his former teacher multiple times in the throat in broad daylight.

The teacher greeted his attacker moments before the violent stabbing, a student at the university told RT France. Other students at the scene tried to administer first aid to the dying teacher, but to no avail.

“The spate of school violence continues and worsens, [what] horror: the stabbing of a teacher in Courbevoie by a former Pakistani student calls for urgent measures. Support to his family and colleagues!” said David Rachline, mayor of the small French town of Fréjus.

Other French politicians focused on the attacker’s background, calling for tougher immigration laws.

"I demand they finally consider the link/connection between the rewildening of the country and anarchical immigration," read a tweet from Marseille Senator Stéphane Ravier, a member of Marine Le Pen’s populist National Rally party."For how long will the French blood flow?"

Et pourquoi?

Léonard-de-Vinci university is located in Courbevoie, a suburb of Paris on the edge of the city’s business district.

Violence in the classroom is a growing problem in France. A viral video showing a student holding a replica gun to a teacher’s head in a suburban Paris high school shocked the nation in October, with President Emmanuel Macron declaring the incident “unacceptable” and calling for the Ministry of Education to investigate.

In another incident in Paris last month, a teenage student punched his teacher in the nose and “grabbed his neck to strangle him,” sending the teacher to the emergency room. The student was indicted for “aggravated violence,” and was expelled from the school.

As with the gun incident, the attack sparked a social media outcry, with French twitter users lamenting the declining quality of education in their country, and the fact that some school children “refuse to follow the rules.”

Saudi Woman Banned from Marrying Her Beau Because He ‘Played Musical Instrument’

FILE PHOTO A man tests his newly finished oud / Reuters

A truly heartbreaking story worthy of a place in One Thousand and One Nights has taken place in a Saudi Arabian city. A woman was denied to marry her sweetheart because he allegedly played a musical instrument, local media report.

Roughly two years ago, a 20-year-old male school teacher, asked for the hand of a woman in the city of Unaizah in Qassim province, Saudi newspapers reported. 

However, the woman’s family refused to greenlight the union, saying that the suitor was not “religiously compatible” because he played the oud, a lute-type instrument popular in the Arab states. In some parts of the ultra-conservative kingdom people who play music are considered to have bad reputation.

Yet the woman, 38, wasn’t planning to give up on marrying her beau and took the case to a lower court. The court’s verdict was disappointing. “Because the suitor plays a musical instrument he is unsuitable for the woman from a religious point of view,” a court statement said.

The woman’s uncle approved the marriage, yet one of her brothers remained a stumbling block. Females in the Gulf kingdom still have limited rights despite ambitious reforms advocated by Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman.

Apart from a strict dress codes, women must seek permission from their guardians to marry or divorce.

The 38-year-old even brought the case to an appeals court but she also lost that, despite it being reportedly revealed that a key witness against the man never actually saw him play the oud.

However, her commitment should be applauded as she is not planning to stop. She told Okaz newspaper and Saudi Gazette that she will seek intervention from the highest court authorities. “I won't stop here. I'll take the matter to the Supreme Court. Maybe I'll find my salvation there,” she said. 

Good luck finding anything resembling salvation in a Sharia court. And yet, western countries allow Sharia to be practiced in some places. How absurd!

The plaintiff, who holds an executive position and manages over 300 people, insists that she is “pretty sure” she knows “what is best” for her. “The reason why I am insisting on marrying my suitor is that he has been a teacher for 20 years and everyone who knows him vouches for his honor and piety,” she stated.

ISIS Child-Recruiting Teacher Showed Terrorist Propaganda Video in UK School

The Islamization of the UK

© Dado Ruvic / Reuters

A teacher accused of plotting terrorist attacks in the UK has admitted to showing pupils Islamic State propaganda videos in class, saying he wanted to give kids a more ‘holistic view’ of the group.

Umar Haque, 25, is one of four men accused of plotting one or more terrorist attacks in the UK and is currently on trial at London’s Old Bailey. The men had allegedly identified prominent landmarks in the capital, including Big Ben, Heathrow Airport and the Houses of Parliament for their terror campaign.

Old Bailey, London

During his trial, Haque – who also faces charges of training children in terrorism at an east London Mosque – said he agreed to show an Islamic State video following a request from one of his students.

He also admitted to being an “official supporter of ISIS” when answering questions about a stash of magazines about the group.

“During my Islamic studies lessons I would always play videos relevant to the topic. It was the end of term. The most well behaved of the class, I told them you can pick a video,” local media cites the defendant as saying.

“I was shocked that he says ‘Sir, I want to see an ISIS video.’ I said all right then. It was obviously not a good idea,”said Haque, adding that he played the propaganda video to give a more “more holistic idea of what Islamic State are.”

It shouldn't have been an option. Such videos have no place in a classroom and no place in the UK.

At the beginning of the trial, prosecutor Mark Heywood QC said Haque had resolved to “carry out one or more violent attacks in this country, with others if he could.” The prosecution said Haque was “fascinated by the warped and extreme ideology of Islamic State,” the Telegraph reported.

Heywood said Haque’s plans “extended to the recruitment of yet others to the [ISIS] cause. Those others were not grown men, but youngsters. Youngsters aged about 11 to 14.”

“His methods were to expose them to information and video recordings and then to have them, in instances, enact scenarios of violent action against the police in this country and other.”

Addressing the jury, the defendant admitted that after a high number of terrorist incidents in Europe in 2015, he had come to support attacks on the West, but felt “heavy on the chest” about it.

While responding to questions regarding notebooks appearing to contain attack plans, Haque said it was only a “theoretical battle” and that he had “no intention of turning this into a practicality.” His trial continues.

He should never have the opportunity to try!

Old Bailey, London

Ontario Teacher Needs a Lesson in Professionalism: DiManno

Teacher should consider career change to truck-driver, or something, with apologies to truck-drivers.

Caution: language contains descriptions of vulgar acts, etc.

Jennifer Elizabeth Green-Johnson, who is listed on the Dunnville Secondary School’s website as an English teacher, Grades 10 through 12, allegedly instructed one of her students: “Why don’t you lick me where I fart?”


Dunnville teacher Jennifer Elizabeth Green-Johnson was previously reprimanded for professional misconduct.  (DREAMSTIME)  

By ROSIE DIMANNO Columnist, Toronto Star

Bite your tongue, ma’am.

Jennifer Elizabeth Green-Johnson, who is listed on the Dunnville Secondary School’s website as an English teacher, Grades 10 through 12, allegedly instructed one of her students: “Why don’t you lick me where I fart?”

That suggestion is included in two sets of charges before the Ontario College of Teachers, with Green-Johnson’s date for hearings to be set next Friday.

Some teachers we remember for the rest of our lives, because they had a profound effect on shaping young minds or instilling a love of learning or helping us navigate the curriculum. I doubt Green-Johnson’s students will ever forget her, if only for the purported yips and confirmed yaps she brought into the classroom.

This is not Green-Johnson’s first disciplinary rodeo.

In January — five years after the Grand Erie District School Board learned of troubling comments and actions involving students — the Ontario College of Teachers found she had committed professional misconduct; received a reprimand, one-month suspension (already served) and directed to complete a course (“at her own expense”) regarding “appropriate boundaries with students and appropriate classroom management.”

Green-Johnson did not contest the accusations outlined in an agreed statement of facts which “would reasonably be regarded by members as disgraceful, dishonourable or unprofessional’’ and “conduct unbecoming.”

Uncontested facts included:

That same month, Green-Johnson caught two male students play-wrestling outside her classroom. When one student jumped on the other’s back, Green-Johnson said: “So you like it from behind.”

In November 2011, while her students were cracking jokes about the size of a man’s penis as portrayed in a movie the class was watching, Green-Johnson “made a comment to the effect that you could not see the actor’s penis without a microscope.”

The following month, when a student asked the teacher to repeat what she’d said, Green-Johnson told the girl to “sit down or I will bop you in the nose.” To another student, she said words to the effect of “stop bitching and sit down.”

In January, 2011, Green-Johnson told her students that she had been “raped” and therefore did not trust men around her children, an assertion that “made some of her students feel uncomfortable.”

The agreed statement of facts continues: “On more than one occasion, (Green-Johnson) used the words ‘stupid’, ‘idiots’, ‘bitching’ and/or ‘ass’ ” while conducting her class.

In an incident that fall, students jesting about how much it would hurt to get hit in the groin playfully began swinging their binders at each other. In attempting to stop them Green-Johnson “made accidental contact with (one of the student’s) groin, causing him to fall to the ground in tears.”

Grand Erie superintendent Scott Sincerbox confirmed to the Star on Friday that “multiple reports” have been filed about Green-Johnson, resulting in short suspensions both paid and unpaid. Though not speaking specifically about this teacher, Sincerbox explained that the board implements a “progressive disciplinary process up to an including termination” with suspensions reported to the College.

The Star was unable to reach Green-Johnson on Friday. Sincerbox said the teacher is “not working” at this time but hasn’t been fired either.

“It’s pretty unusual for a teacher who has been found guilty of unprofessional conduct to come before us again,” says Gabrielle Barkany, spokesperson for the College. She could recall it happening only twice before.

For Green-Johnson, these are actually “notifications” — summonings to defend herself, that is — Number 3 and 4. Apart from the matter concluded by the board’s disciplinary committee in January, there were allegations heard by the College against her in 2007 but those were not substantiated.

This time ’round, there are two separate sets of allegations, thus two separate cases to be heard.

In one, relating to the 2015-16 academic year, Green-Johnson is alleged to:

Have told a student who brought coffee to class: “Get that f---ing thing out of here.”

Called a student a “bloody pedophile.”

Told a student: “I have never said this to a student before but f--- you.”

Told another: “It sounds like your ass cheeks are too close together,” after the student a made a noise by pressing his lips together.

Told a student who’d offered to buy her muffins in exchange for a passing grade: “You mean a bribe? I’d be able to shit for a week.”

Told a female student she “looked like a frumpy old lady today.”

On the second matter, Green-Johnson is alleged to have “slapped and/or hit” a male student on the head in March, told him to “grow some balls,” called him an “idiot” and discussed personal issues with a student during class even though that individual was not enrolled in the class.

Green-Johnson was suspended for one day without pay in May and six days without pay in February as a result of recent allegations, though it’s not clear specifically which ones.

School boards can fire teachers. The College can revoke their teaching certificate.

Green-Johnson, holy terror, seems not to have learned her lessons at all.

She sounds like a perfect candidate for the Ontario Dep't of Education to put in charge of sex education.

Denver Teacher’s Third Grade Assignment Goes Viral Online

Similar messages and pictures came pouring in from other schools worldwide

Gulf News
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Denver: A Colorado teacher who posted notes from her third grade class online and started a social media whirlwind under the hashtag #IWishMyTeacherKnew said the assignment had been a revelation for her.

Kyle Schwartz, 26, asked the eight- and nine-year-olds at her Denver inner city school to write down something they wished she knew about them, partly as a writing exercise, and partly as a way for her to learn about her pupils.

Responses included “I don’t have pencils at home to do my homework,” and “I want to go to college,” to one tear-jerker from a girl who said she had no friends to play with at recess.

When the teacher shared photographs of some of the notes on Twitter, similar messages and pictures came pouring in from other schools worldwide.

Schwartz, a self-described suburban girl who has taught at southwest Denver’s Doull Elementary for three years, said she has conducted the exercise each year, in part because she wanted to underline the issue of poverty in US inner cities.

About 90 per cent of Doull’s 532 students are Hispanic, and 46 per cent are classed as English language learners.

Schwartz said one message that garnered a lot of sympathy online, from a girl who said she missed her father after he was deported to Mexico several years ago, was particularly revealing.

“That student comes to school each day with a smile on her face,” the teacher said, adding that she would not have known what the girl was going through if not for the handwritten note.

She said the pupils were told they could write anonymously if they wished, but that most were happy to add their names and to share their messages with classmates.

One widely commented upon note was from a girl who said she had no friends to play with during break time.

Schwartz said that message had been “heartbreaking,” but that she was gladdened to see how the other pupils rallied to support the child who wrote it.

“The next day at recess, all the girls huddled around her and played tag,” Schwartz said.

“A lot of what we’re teaching is how to be a good friend. My students’ emotional needs are just as important as their academic needs.”