Duncanville News

Jeff Bliss, an 18-year-old who is in the 10th grade because he dropped out of school last year, got kicked out of a Texas classroom a couple of weeks ago.

It happened around 11:30 p.m. at the Red Bird Bowling Lanes in the 1100 block of South Main Street near Azalea Lane.

A Texas high school student's rant against his teacher has gone viral on YouTube, prompting the district to look at its teaching procedures.

Neela Debnath is a member of the Independent's Online editorial team. She has an MA in Journalism from Brunel University.

Duncanville Teacher Placed on Administrative Leave. Julie Phung, the teacher at whom student Jeff Bliss directed his rant that went viral online , has been temporarily removed from the classroom with pay .

His passionate speech has gone viral. It's gotten tens of thousands of hits and comments after it was posted online.

A student delivers an impassioned critique of his teacher as he storms out of class.

The student lectures teacher video has gone viral, bringing a young high school student from Duncanville, Texas, into the national spotlight as a hero, according to a May 9 report on the UPI .

Nearly everyone who attended High School has at least one story of an upset teacher or student storming from a classroom.

In another era, Jeff Bliss's phillipic against lazy and uninspired teaching would have been witnessed by a few classmates and quickly forgotten.

The Duncanville Independent School District has made a statement about a viral video taken in one of its high school classrooms.

Fed up with being given yet another unimaginative packet of worksheets to mindlessly fill out in lieu of an actual lesson, one high school student from Duncanville, Texas, tells his teacher as much, and is kicked out for it.

Leroy Nelson, 61, was arrested and indicted Monday on six counts of mail fraud and six counts of engaging in illegal monetary transactions, U.S. Attorney Sarah Saldana's office announced.

A woman was killed Sunday when the motorcycle she was riding was hit from behind along I-20 in southwest Dallas County.