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Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Doctors ARE Taught About Vaccines In Medical School
Do medical schools neglect to teach future doctors about vaccines, how they're made and their potential dangers? No, that's not true: Vaccine education is a typical part of the training in schools of medicine. Representatives of multiple
Logically→ Only 0.1 percent of Children in Finnish schools have severe attention problems because of how their school days are structured.
Around 4 - 8 percent of Finnish children have ADHD. Finland's unique school structure may alleviate ADHD symptoms, but not cure them.
PolitiFact→ Kari Lake – No, Katie Hobbs did not vote to pull the Pledge of Allegiance or the U.S. Constitution from school c
Said Katie Hobbs “fought to” “prevent students from learning (about) the Pledge of Allegiance, Constitution, Mayflower Compact and Declaration of Independence.”
The Dispatch→ Fact Checking Tucker Carlson’s Claims About Vaccines and School Attendance
In a segment of his Fox News show on October 18, Tucker Carlson claimed that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention “is about to add the COVID vaccine to the childhood immunization schedule, which would make the vax mandatory for kids to atte
PolitiFact→ Tom Horne – Republican Arizona school chief candidate said kids are resistant to COVID-19
“Kids are resistant to COVID as opposed to older people.”
Snopes→ School Shootings Are Already at a Record in 2022
As of Oct. 24, there have been 257 shootings on school campuses — passing the 250 total for all of 2021, according to data compiled by criminal justice experts.
Snopes→ Tweet Accurately Describes Security at St. Louis School Shooting
Here is the evidence we gathered after readers asked us to confirm whether this viral tweet was true.
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: NO Evidence Of Kidnapping Attempt At Puyallup, Washington, Schools By Man With Mask
Did a stranger in a mask try to kidnap students from at least two schools around the Puyallup, Washington, area? No, that's not true: The Puyallup Police Department told Lead Stories that while two schools received phone calls about a per
Logically→ CDC is adding the COVID-19 vaccine to the childhood immunization schedule, making it mandatory for kids to attend school.
The CDC does not set vaccine requirements at schools. It is done by the states and subsequently changes from area to area.
Poynter→ CDC committee’s vote did not make COVID-19 vaccines mandatory for schoolchildren
A routine meeting of a group of vaccine experts who advise the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention became the target of a storm of misinformation after unfounded rumors […] The post CDC committee’s vote did not make COVID-19 vac
FactCheck.org→ States Determine School Immunization Requirements, Not CDC
SciCheck Digest Vaccines are added to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s immunization schedule after consultation with an outside advisory group and when the benefits outweigh the risks. Contrary to claims from Tucker Carlson and others
Truth or Fiction?→ Why Texas Schools Send Parents DNA Kits for ‘Emergencies’
On October 19 2022, a link about Texas schools sending DNA kits to parents for ease of student identification in an “emergenciwes” was shared to Reddit’s r/nottheonion — a subreddit for “true stories that are so mind-blowi
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: CDC Did NOT Mandate Kids Get COVID-19 Vaccine For School — It’s Up To Each State
Did the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) mandate that students get COVID-19 shots? No, that's not true: While an independent CDC advisory committee did vote on October 20, 2022, to add the COVID vaccine to its list of reco
PolitiFact→ Tucker Carlson – CDC committee’s vote did not make COVID-19 vaccines mandatory for school kids
“The CDC is about to add the COVID vaccine to the childhood immunization schedule, which would make the vax mandatory for kids to attend school.”
PolitiFact→ State spending, school funding, abortion: fact-checking Iowa’s gubernatorial debate
State spending, school funding, abortion: fact-checking Iowa’s gubernatorial debate.
AllSides→ Correcting Fauci’s Revisionist History on School Closures
https://www.nationalreview.com/news/correcting-faucis-revisionist-history-on-school-closures/ Dr. Antho
Logically→ Schools are installing litter boxes for children who identify as animals.
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: A Tennessee Student Did NOT Win A Lawsuit ‘To Have Cat Litter Installed In High School Bathrooms’
Did a student called Fluffy Janow win a "lawsuit to have cat litter installed in high school bathrooms" in Rhea County, Tennesee? No, that's not true. A satire account on Facebook published the claim following a meeting of Tennessee legis
Snopes→ Report: Democrat Katie Hobbs May Have Organized ‘Slave Day’ in High School
Hobbs is running for the governorship of the state of Arizona and is being challenged by Republican Kari Lake, who was endorsed by former U.S. President Donald Trump.
PolitiFact→ Instagram posts – Florida public schools were closed during Hurricane Ian, despite claim
"Florida schools (were) still open during the start of the hurricane."
Snopes→ 15 Dead, 24 Wounded in School Shooting in Russia
A gunman opened fire in a school in central Russia, killing 15 people and wounding 24 others before shooting himself dead.
PolitiFact→ Facebook posts – No, Barron Trump wasn’t kicked out of school because his family could not pay the tuition
“Barron Trump has been kicked out of school for fees.”
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Barron Trump Was NOT Kicked Out Of School — False Clickbait Title Does NOT Match Video Content
Was Barron Trump kicked out of school because his tuition had not been paid? No, that's not true: This clickbait title for a video is false. The title's claim is not discussed in the video, which contains a montage of stock photos with a
PolitiFact→ Tom Horne – Attack on school chief Kathy Hoffman lacks key testing context
Under Kathy Hoffman, “student test scores plummeted. Even before COVID, under the current regime, over half of Arizona students were not proficient in reading or math.”
PolitiFact→ Kathy Hoffman – Yes, Kathy Hoffman lobbied to hire hundreds of counselors at Arizona schools
“Since 2019, I've successfully lobbied for the funds to add hundreds of school counselors, lowering our student to school counselor ratio by 20%.”
Snopes→ These High School ‘Classics’ Have Been Taught for Generations – Could They be on Their Way Out?
An English professor takes a critical look at why today’s students are assigned the same books that were assigned decades ago – and why American school curricula are so difficult to change.
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: High School Athlete Did NOT Get COVID-19 Vaccine Before 6-Foot-Long Clot In His Leg
Did Ohio high school football player Kaden Clymer get the COVID-19 vaccine before he was found with a 6-foot-long clot in his leg? No, this claim lacks context. A local TV station covering the story later reported that Clymer had been dia
Snopes→ Keep Watch For These Internet Rumors about ‘Banned’ Books in Schools or Libraries
It's a trend with which the Snopes newsroom has become very familiar: memes listing supposedly "banned" books in public school or libraries.
Logically→ The Delhi government launched India’s first virtual school in August 2022.
Delhi's virtual school is not the first of its kind in India. NIOS had already launched the country's first virtual school in August 2021.
PolitiFact→ Facebook posts – Inaccurate data fuels false conclusion about money for police in schools
“With the combined salary of the 87,000 new IRS Agents ($81,456 average annual salary), you could put a police officer ($55,117) in every public school in the nation (97,568) and still have 31,007 police officers or $1,709,012,819 left over.”
Truth or Fiction?→ North Carolina School Baptisms
On September 6 2022, an Imgur account shared a screenshot of a two-day-old tweet which claimed that a school in North Carolina baptized a hundred children without parental consent: A North Carolina School Baptizes 100 Kids Without Parents’ Permissi
Snopes→ Huge Los Angeles Unified School District Hit by Cyberattack
A ransomware attack targeting the huge Los Angeles school district prompted an unprecedented shutdown of its computer systems.
Logically→ A Texas school district removed Anne Frank’s “The Diary of a Young Girl” from libraries.
A graphic adaptation of the book was briefly pulled for review after parents deemed it inappropriate. Many editions remained on bookshelves.
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: There Is NO Evidence UK Schoolchildren Are Being Coached To Befriend Pedophiles
Are these posts proof that British elementary school students and kindergarteners are being taught to tolerate sexual abuse? No, that's not true: There's no evidence to authenticate pictures of a brochure about strangers who approach, wit
Snopes→ Does a Tampa School Library Book Teach About Gay Sex?
The Florida Standard reported that Pierce Middle School offered "a book promoting gay sex – including instructions on how to use 'hookup apps.'"
Snopes→ Did a High School Football Team Lead the National Anthem After Being Told It Wouldn’t Be Played?
According to a popular article that was shared in 2022, events that occurred in 2019 were inspired by news from 2020. Confused yet?
PolitiFact→ Facebook posts – A Florida school district halted library purchases but did not cancel book fairs
Sarasota, Florida, teachers told they cannot purchase books, accept donated reading materials, order from Scholastic or hold book fairs.
Logically→ A leaflet distributed in UK schools encourages children to invite pedophiles into their homes.
There is no evidence that this leaflet was ever produced or distributed in the U.K. or anywhere else.
Truth or Fiction?→ ‘Doug Mastriano, Jenna Ellis, and Breitbart Touted a Fake Polling Firm Created by a High School Student’
On August 25 2022, a popular screenshot of a tweet on Imgur claimed that right-wing entities fell for and promoted a “poll” on Twitter — without checking to determine whether it was credible: Amazing but not surprising: Doug Mastr