Story here. Excerpt:

'Cheryl Grampa, a teacher at Cooper City Elementary School, allegedly had a unique reward system for her students.

Give her a massage. Get a treat.

It's unclear how long the 12-year veteran has employed the massage learning technique, but the Broward School Board suspended Grampa on Tuesday, reports the Sun-Sentinel.

Grampa, 45, will miss five days of school without pay for her actions, which stems from a massage request during the 2009-2010 school year.

Grampa "engaged in inappropriate conduct and contact with a minor student ranging from soliciting and allowing students to massage her, in exchange for rewards, allowing students to touch her in an inappropriate manner and failing to take reasonable and corrective action with respect to improper touching," according to a formal complaint by the School Board.

The woman has not been charged with a crime, but whatever she did rubbed officials the wrong way.'

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'FARGO — A longtime judge for the state’s National Geographic Bee claims he was punished for complaining that the annual contest was unfair to girls, and he’s taking his case to federal court for the second time in three years.

Minot State University professor emeritus Eric Clausen is suing the National Geographic Society and five other groups. He says he believes the bee violates federal laws on gender equity because a large majority of the state winners are boys.

Clausen claims the NGS retaliated against him by warning him not to interfere and refusing to fund a North Dakota geography program.'

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National Geographic Bee

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'Though long ago debunked, the myth that more women fall victim to domestic violence on Super Bowl Sunday still persists — ironically, according to some experts, to the detriment of women.

The myth dates back to 1993 when, like a game of telephone, anecdotal evidence became conflated into a statistical fact parroted throughout the media without confirmation. That year, The Associated Press and CBS labeled Super Bowl Sunday a “day of dread” for women across the country. Women advocates spoke of a “flood” of calls to domestic abuse hot lines and media mailings warned women “Don’t remain at home with him during the game.”
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“If you look at these myths they almost all promote this idea that women are victims and men are brutes. The ‘Super Bowl hoax,’ for example, depicts the average guy sitting in his couch watching the Super Bowl as a violent predator and I think this promotes prejudice,” Sommers said. “This view has been popular among hard line gender activists who want to depict masculinity as pathological.”'

Article here. Excerpt:

'A new study out of Ohio State University seems to suggest that traditional gender roles work out better for families than interchangeability of parents and tasks. The study only involved 112 families, so it is hardly what can be called conclusive proof. But its findings will probably ring a bell with old-timers like me, or even new-timers who aren’t politically correct.

After watching the target families interact with their children during caregiving tasks and while involved in play and various projects like building toy structures or drawing pictures, the study authors said that families in which fathers were more involved in play activities had more of what researchers called supportive interaction — i.e. “behaviours that are warm and co-operative between the parents.”

Article here. Excerpt:

'While the U.S. House is trying to figure out how to cut wasteful and/or extravagant federal spending, members should be mindful of Reagan's advice to begin by cutting programs that are harmful. One that fits this definition is the billion-dollar-a-year Violence Against Women Act (VAWA), now up for re-authorization.

This week is the 18th anniversary of an event that precipitated passage of VAWA in 1994. It's known as the Super Bowl Hoax, the assertion made on Jan. 28, 1993, in Pasadena, Calif., with fulsome media coverage, that more women are victims of domestic violence on Super Bowl Sunday than any other day of the year.

That radical feminist fairy tale lacked even a shred of truth. It was designed to feed the feminist anti-male and anti-masculine prejudices that men are naturally batterers, women are naturally victims, sports fans are prone to aggression and macho posturing, and football is especially guilty.'

Article here. Excerpt:

'Ah, the joys of new motherhood. You are perennially exhausted. The baby cried again last night; even when she goes right back to sleep, you don’t. You haven’t showered in three days; your hair is a mop; you pray no one comes to visit, because the last thing you want to do is be social.

And now, mothers have to worry about “maternal gatekeeping” too? Gee, thanks.

Ohio University researcher Sarah Schoppe-Sullivan studied 112 middle-class of toddlers, and found that couples where mothers did more caregiving and fathers did more playing experienced less conflict than those who assumed more gender-neutral roles. Her conclusion?

She suggested parents may be subconsciously bothered when parenting roles conflict with their pre-conceived ideas.

From the mother’s point of view, it could be a function of “maternal gatekeeping,” Schoppe-Sullivan said.

Australia, where it's now official that women are women, and men are "males". Link to department site here. Excerpt:

'National Male and Women's Health

The Government has committed to developing National Male and Women's Health Policies, to ensure that specific health needs of both men and women are addressed.

The policies will be developed in consultation with state and territory governments, health service providers, consumer and advocacy groups and the community.

National Male Health Policy - For more information or the opportunity to provide comments on the development of the National Male Health Policy

National Women's Health Policy - For more information or the opportunity to provide comments on the development of the National Women's Health Policy

Page last modified: 28 January, 2010'

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'A HAIR and beauty student who falsely accused a man of raping her to gain sympathy was given a six- month community supervision order yesterday.

Because of her false accusation Jemma Knights wasted 37 hours of Lowestoft police’s time.

The 18-year-old pleaded guilty to wasting police time at Lowestoft Magistrates’ Court.

Magistrates heard Knights, who lives in support housing in Lorne Road, Lowestoft, told police in July she had been raped.

Mitzy Bond, prosecuting, said Knights had falsely claimed she was raped to try and make friends with someone at the college she was going to.

Knights had hoped to make friends by gaining the other’s person sympathy.'

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'Rebecca Diamond, a former SDSU student, pleaded guilty to false reporting and was sentenced with a $500 fine.

In December, she reported to the SDSU Police Department that she was sexually assaulted, and then later repealed the report. She appeared in court Jan. 10 and was sentenced with a $500 dollar fine.

Along with the fine, Diamond was sentenced to 90 days in jail with 85 days suspended.

Clyde Calhoon, Brookings County states attorney, said Diamond has served her five days, and the conditions on which the days are suspended are that she must "remain law-abiding" and "contribute 50 hours of community service."'

Article here. Excerpt:

'While at the same time, and this is the shame of it, we ourselves are fair game for women. While sexism from men is the outstanding social crime of the modern world, women can say absolutely whatever they like about us.

For make no mistake: sexism is alive and well in this country and applauded in all quarters — as long as it is practised by women. And they are allowed to say the most terrible, terrible things.

Only last week, for example, Jo Brand, the newly crowned Best Female TV Comic at the British Comedy Awards, was on Have I Got News For You and replied to the question ‘What’s your favourite kind of man, Jo?’ by saying: ‘A dead one.’ Oh, how the audience fell about. And the other contestants, all male, chortled away too.

I’m not saying it wasn’t funny. I’m just saying we live in a world where the thorough-going awfulness, uselessness and superfluity of the male sex is such a given, that a frontline television comic can get big laughs by saying she’d prefer it if we were all dead.'

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'(CNN) -- Police opened, and then dropped, an investigation of physical abuse involving a Florida mother against her teen daughter, closing the case weeks before the woman admitted killing the girl and her brother because they were "mouthy."

Julie K. Schenecker, 50, is charged with two counts of first-degree murder in the deaths of her 13-year-old son, Beau Powers Schenecker, and her 16-year-old daughter, Calyx Powers Schenecker.

She was denied bond at a court appearance Monday, a court spokesman said.

"Our belief was that she didn't snap -- she planned this," Tampa, Florida, police spokesperson Laura McElroy told HLN's Vinnie Politan on Monday.'

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'MEDFORD (CBS) – A woman was ordered held without bail Monday charged with killing her husband in Medford.

Police found 34-year-old Troy Burston wounded outside a home on Exchange Avenue at 10:40 p.m. Sunday. He was not wearing a shirt and had been stabbed in the chest.

He was rushed to Lawrence Memorial Hospital where he died.

Police arrested his wife, 39-year-old Shawntina Burston.

Investigators say the two had come home from a birthday party and began arguing and hitting each other. She allegedly found a hickey on his neck and stabbed him with a cooking knife.

“This is another troubling incident of domestic violence turned fatal,” Middlesex District Attorney Gerry Leone said in a statement Monday.

“We allege that the victim was fatally stabbed by his wife during an argument, sadly leaving two young children behind.”'

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'Courtney Renee Bowles, 31, of Fort Collins also faces charges of sexual assault on a child by one in a position of trust and contributing to the delinquency of a minor, according to the Larimer County arrest report.

She remained in custody at the Larimer County Detention Center on Saturday afternoon.

Bowles was arrested at North Lake Park, where a Loveland police officer contacted the vehicle at 10:40 p.m. for being in the park after it was closed.

"The initial investigation suggests this was an isolated incident with no indication of any other victims," according to the Loveland news release.'

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In contrast -- Capital teacher arrested on eight counts of 'rape', story here.

Article here. Excerpt:

'Some allege school administrators know about inappropriate relationships between teachers and student and don't do anything about it. Others blame the teenage victim, pointing out that someone had to drive that second car there. Some ask why are cops wasting their time shining lights in parked cars to begin with?

There is more than one person out there saying laws regulating sex between students and female teachers are too strict. Who wrote these laws, one wondered, the Taliban? One person commenting online, who sounds like a school girl, says she knows more than one friend who is having an affair with a male teacher.

Many writers laud the victim as the luckiest teenage boy on earth. At least the victim was a male, said another, implying, I assume, that an illegal heterosexual affair with a minor is at least better than a homosexual one.

Story here. Excerpt:

'BAY CITY, Mich. -- A substitute teacher at Bay City Central High School was arrested and charged with having sexual relationships with students at the high school.

According to a news release issued by Bay City police, the 41-year-old Midland woman met the students while working as a contracted substitute teacher for Central High School.

Police began an investigation after a female student reported to a school administrator on Friday that a male student was involved in a sexual relationship with a sub.

Detectives from the Bay City Police Department were called in, and as the investigation progressed, more victims were identified.'