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Parents in California are furious at the local school district – but school board officials insist they were merely following federal HIPAA regulations.

Surprised parents in Vacaville were caught off guard when their youngsters reported that last year’s female music teacher was now a “mister.” The teacher is undergoing transgender surgery, and reported to Foxboro Elementary school as a man at the beginning of the school year.

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 A Florida teacher was sentenced to more than seven years in prison for slavery. According to testimony in a Fort Lauderdale court, Maude Paulin forced a Haitian girl to work without pay seven days per week for more than seven years.   

While many employers including Target, Wal-mart, Starbucks, Walgreens and others have reached settlements involving minimum wage violations, few come close to the level of abuse in this case.

The prosecution showed that while Paulin was a respected middle-school teacher by day, by night she kept a young teen – the same age as her students—in primitive conditions, forcing the girl to work long hours and sleep on the floor. Still, the employer maintains that she wants only good things for the worker.

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