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Fox News’ Bill O’Reilly realized that black people are just like white people after having dinner with Al Sharpton at Syliva’s, a legendary Harlem restaurant, reports MollyGood.

Afterwards, Bill O’Reilly talked about his experience on his radio program … praising the civilized behavior of Harlem’s African Americans:

.. O’Reilly reported that he “had a great time, and all the people up there are tremendously respectful,” adding: “I couldn’t get over the fact that there was no difference between Syliva’s restaurant and any other restaurant in New York City. I mean, it was exactly the same, even though it’s run by blacks, primarily black patronship.”

Later, during a discussion with National Public Radio senior correspondent and Fox News contributor Juan Williams about the effects of rap on culture, O’Reilly asserted: “There wasn’t one person in Sylvia’s who was screaming, ‘M-Fer, I want more iced tea.’ You know, I mean, everybody was - it was like going into an Italian restaurant in an all-white suburb in the sense of people were sitting there, and they were ordering and having fun. And there wasn’t any kind of craziness at all.”

Wonder why we haven’t heard from Big Al Sharpton on this - considering the fact that he was quick to jump on Imus?

Janelle Batkins, 42, of Harrison Township, Michigan and a French teacher at Roseville High School and “Teacher of the Year in 2002″ has been arraigned on criminal sexual conduct charges today in a Clinton Township district court.

Batkins is charged with two counts of third-degree criminal sexual conduct and faces up to 30 year in prison if convicted of both counts. Following her arraignment she released on a $25,000 personal bond. Batkins is prohibited from going onto the school grounds and prohibited from having contact with minors unrelated to her.

Batkins the married mother of two children, ages 14 and 21, allegedly had an affair with a 17-year-old male student from December until the end of the 2006-2007 school year. Reportedly the boy was the student ‘teacher’s aide’ in French class and graduated this past school year.

Batkins came to the attention of authorities in July after the boy’s mother found evidence of the relationship on her son’s computer. The boy has allegedly admitted to the sexual relationship and said that he consented to sexual activities in places like her home and a car in Roseville.

Reportedly Batkins who has taught in the school system for 15 years, resigned this past summer.

A preliminary exam in the case has been set for October 30th.

CLINTON TOWNSHIP, Mich. — A former Roseville High School teacher was charged with having sex with a teenage teacher’s assistant.

Janelle Batkins, 42, of Harrison Township was charged Monday in district court in Clinton Township. She faces two counts of third-degree criminal sexual conduct.

The Macomb County sheriff’s office said Batkins and the boy began having consensual sex last December and continued through May.

Batkins’ attorney didn’t comment after Monday’s hearing.

Batkins is a married mother of two who taught French for about 15 years in the district. She resigned over the summer and has a preliminary exam set for Oct. 30.

In her first public words since the scandal that shook her small town, 24 year old Allena Ward asked for forgiveness Thursday. “Today, I publicly admit my guilt,” she told a crowded courtoom. The former teacher’s tears comes months after she was arrested on charges she had sex with several students. In court, Ward pleaded guilty to six charges against her. One of those encounters even included having sex in her Bell Street Middle School classroom.

For the first time, explicit details of Ward’s relationships with five boys were made public. Solicitor Jerry Peace read entries from her diary, found in her school desk. “I don’t want to hurt his feelings,” it reads. “It is risky and so wrong. God help me.”

None of the victims were there to face their former teacher in person. Attornies say their lives have been forever scarred. “Their mindset has been damaged basically for the rest of their lives, and in fact, it is a life sentence on these kids.”

Whether it will be a life sentence for Ward, is now up to a judge. Her sentencing could be held in the next four to six weeks.

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A former teacher was charged with having sex with a teenage boy, the third teacher in the same county accused of such crimes in the past year and a half, authorities said Monday.

Karen Robbins, 49, was arrested over the weekend and charged with three counts each of criminal sexual conduct with a minor and committing a lewd act on a child. The sex occurred with a 15-year-old in her car and twice at her home between September and November 2005, according to arrest warrants.

Robbins was a private school teacher at the time, and officials said the accusations did not involve one of her students.

Robbins was released from jail on a $90,000 bail.

Messages left at a telephone listing for a Karen Robbins in Clinton and with the county public defender’s office were not immediately returned.

Police said they began investigating after school officials turned over letters in July found at Bell Street Middle School, where Robbins worked during the 2006-2007 school year.

Earlier this month, Allena Ward, also a former Bell Street Middle teacher, pleaded guilty to having sex with five teenage boys, some of them students where she taught.

Wendie Ann Schweikert, a former elementary school teacher in Laurens County, was sentenced in June to 10 years in prison after pleading guilty to having sex with an 11-year-old student. Ward has not yet been sentenced.

“You’re concerned as a parent. You’re concerned as a citizen and concerned as a prosecutor that these events keep being uncovered,” said solicitor Jerry Peace, who prosecuted Ward and Schweikert.

The now-17-year-old boy in Robbins’ case, a former student at Bell Street Middle, is cooperating with authorities, Peace said.