Today In The USA

(Vicki Rae Smith)

Every school day administrators, teachers and support personnel are called upon to break up fights between students.

When is the last time you read or heard of a school administrator alleged to have set up a hallway brawl between two students?

That is exactly what the cops and district attorney allege Vicki Rae Smith, 50, the former principal of Houston Elementary School in Tulsa, Oklahoma, did on April 2, 2009.

It is alleged that Smith encouraged a 10-year-old boy and an 11-year-old boy to duke it out in the hallway and stopped the brawl only when two visitors to the school spotted the alleged fight. It is further alleged that Smith went as far as to remove one boy from class in order that he could participate in the fight.

Smith has been charged with contributing to the delinquency of a minor, a misdemeanor. She was booked into the Tulsa Jail on Tuesday and was released on a $1,000 bond about an hour later.

Smith was initially reassigned as a “principal on special assignment” in the school district’s Special Education Department and susequently suspended with pay following her arrest.

Smith has been a principal for the last 12 years, and has been employed by the school system since August 1981.

Smith’s attorneys have entered a plea of not guilty on her behalf and stated the allegations are false and that Smith intends to do everything that she can to defend herself.

Read about it at Principal arrested over brawl and a followup report at TPS explains timeline behind principal’s investigation

In another example of the ongoing outbreak of middle school sex scandals, three students from Glades Middle School in Miramar, Florida were suspended this week and face expulsion after they allegedly engaged in sexual relations inside two classrooms at the school.

Reportedly the two teachers in whose classrooms the sexual activity took place have been reassigned to non-teaching duties.

Initial reports indicated that there were three 12-year-old female “victims” and that the sexual activity was on the part of two boys and one girl, all about 13-year-old seventh-graders.

Apparently the “victims” were victimized by simply seeing the sexual activity, rather than having been forced to participate in the activity.

The three seventh-graders may have been involved in sexual activity for several weeks, according to school district spokesman Keith Bromery.

Apparently the kids began “getting it on” in September and stopped only when the first “victim” reported the incidents after being questioned by her parents as to why her grades were dropping.

As school officials investigated it became apparent that more students were “victims” of the antics of the three alleged culprits.

As the school district and Miramar police continue to investigate, the students were suspended for 10 days and two teachers were reassigned to non-teaching duties. Principal Krista Herrera sent a letter home with students Tuesday, assuring parents that students at the school are safe.

The Broward school board will vote to determine if the students should be expelled.

As for the two teacher and what the heck they were doing while these kids were getting it on?

We haven’t a clue.

Maybe they were busy inflating the air mattress…

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Long gone are the days when airlines used the phrase “friendly skies” in their advertisements. The “unfriendly skies” would be more fitting for today’s airlines and their passengers.

Man talks on cell, plane does not crash – Southwest Airlines says a passenger who refused to get off his cell phone during a flight found Dallas police waiting for him. Read it at Southwest Passenger Cited For Cell Phone Chatter and wonder if he was talking to the Spitzer hooker booker…

From coast to coast by toilet – A New York City man is suing JetBlue Airways Corp. for more than $2 million because he says a pilot made him give up his seat to a flight attendant and sit on the toilet for more than three hours on a flight from California. Read it at Man Says JetBlue Made Him Sit On Toilet and understand what they mean by “cheap seats”…