6-year-old breaks leg, teacher says crawl back to school

Teachers at a Skokie school forced a 6-year-old with a broken leg and a concussion to crawl back to his classroom across an icy playground, then failed to call for an ambulance. Kindergartner Rahul Chandani slipped on a mound of snow and hit his head in the playground but didn’t get any medical help until his mom came to get him. His teacher told him: you’re a big boy, I can’t carry you and told him to walk back. His leg was broken so he fell again and then had to crawl at least 200-300 feet back to the school building. More

Conductor halts performance after cell phone ring

When a mobile phone went off during a New York Philharmonic performance the conductor saw red, stopping the orchestra in its tracks. Orchestra music director Alan Gilbert was so appalled by the continuing distraction during one of the most poignant parts of the performance that he brought the musicians to a standstill. The phone’s ‘marimba’ ring-tone went off from a front row seat of New York’s Avery Fisher Hall. The untimely interruption happened during the final and most moving bars of Mahler’s Ninth symphony, just 13 bars before the beginning of the last page of the score. More