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‘Unacceptable’: Teacher Suspended After Allegedly Pouring Pencil Shavings Into Student’s Mouth

Feb. 9, 2013 4:40pm Erica Ritz

Marquis Jay, Arlington Student, Says Teacher Poured Pencil Shavings Into His Mouth

(Photo: CBS11)

13-year-old Marquis Jay was sitting in his 8th grade class at Boles Jr. High School in Arlington, Texas when he says a teacher punished him by pouring pencil shavings into his mouth.

Jay explained that he was slouching and leaning with his head back and mouth open when the teacher tossed in the wooden shavings, but says that’s hardly a sufficient justification.

His mother, Deidre Brown, added for CBS 11: “I wanted to cry because it was like how could she do that…What kind of message is it sending to the kids? She is supposed to be the teacher – the adult.”

Jay says the woman wasn’t even his regular teacher, but someone who swung by to help ease the burden in their classroom.

According to CBS 11, the school’s director of communications said:

“This incident is unacceptable and was immediately and fully investigated by the AISD when it occurred almost a month ago. The district took appropriate disciplinary action…The school has been in constant communication with the student’s mother about this incident and other matters. At no time has mom expressed any concerns about the manner in which this situation was handled to the school or the district.” [Emphasis added]

But according to a Friday report, the mom doesn’t quite agree. The teacher was reportedly suspended and asked to apologize, but Brown would’ve preferred to see her fired.

“I don’t even think she should be teaching if she can’t have the patience to not know that’s not something she is not supposed to do,” Brown concluded.

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Comments (106)

Fitzzz
Posted on February 9, 2013 at 9:52pm
He looks like a young Treyvon
and I bet he’s just as devious

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- COFemale
  Posted on February 10, 2013 at 1:38am
  Get your eyes checked and that was uncalled for. You have no clue what this kid is like no more than I do.
  
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- GMP
  Posted on February 10, 2013 at 8:44am
  I agree with Cofemale.
  
  And whoever put that picture in this story had to have known it looks like a small jar of pee…
  
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- Red Meat
  Posted on February 10, 2013 at 9:15am
  “I was like”, he probably deserved it. Like OMG!
  
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- oneshiner
  Posted on February 10, 2013 at 10:27am
  Hey, he could have been obama’s son.
  
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- G-WHIZ
  Posted on February 10, 2013 at 10:48am
  iN THE 50′S when Iwas in gradeschool, that would have been….A BAR OF SOAP!!
  
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- The_Jerk
  Posted on February 10, 2013 at 2:50pm
  What we really have today are, more whining kids and more wimpy parents.
  
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- tommysoap
  Posted on February 11, 2013 at 6:57am
  Yup the Mom had no problem with her kid obviously sleeping in class.
  
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- Disabledvet
  Posted on February 11, 2013 at 1:28pm
  The parent asked wha kind of message does it send to the students, How about sit up straight, no sleeping and keep your mouth shut and we need more teachers like her, don’t suspend her give her a raise. Maybe the parents should be more involved in the kids life and get them in bed at a earlier hour so he gets plenty of sleep.
  
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DoOrDie
Posted on February 9, 2013 at 9:08pm
I guarantee you there’s more to this story. I wouldn’t be surprised if this kid was mouthing off to the teacher being disrespectful, like most of them kids are these days. When I went to school, kids got paddled all the time for acting stupid and there wasn’t one of them that didn’t deserve it. There are no scars left from that either emotional or physical. Political pansy correctness is breeding a generation of disrespectful pieces of s**t.

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- happyperson101
  Posted on February 9, 2013 at 10:30pm
  That is true…he goes to my school and he’s a total jerk..kinda rude for the teacher to do that though..
  
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- oneoldpatriot
  Posted on February 10, 2013 at 8:50am
  I’m sure there is more to this story. The district is in communication with the mother about this incident and “other matters”.
  
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Rowgue
Posted on February 9, 2013 at 9:02pm
In other words he was dead asleep with his mouth wide open probably snoring. I’m not sure dumping something in his mouth was the right way to go, but an eraser upside the head would have been appropriate.

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- sligresda
  Posted on February 10, 2013 at 12:13am
  Ida went to his desk and slammed something, anything, down as hard as i coulda. thatll learn em.
  
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- smokie
  Posted on February 10, 2013 at 1:18pm
  Sometimes we just let the sleeping person sleep, as the class would end, we would quietly leave for the next class to come in and find him.
  
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Cant steal my joy
Posted on February 9, 2013 at 8:09pm
Mamma needs to put her 13 year old boy to bed at a decent hour so that he is not falling asleep in class. Teacher shouldn’t have done that.

Had that been my kid bedtime would have been moved up and teacher & probably principal would have been talked to but not the media.

While in a college class of about 300 students I once awoke to the sound of the teacher instucting the class from right next to me. And I was sitting toward the back of the lecture hall. I was mortified and it was the right thing for the teacher to do. I worked my way through college so there wasn’t always time for enough sleep.

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Dkoonz
Posted on February 9, 2013 at 7:58pm
Really she was only despendid? Should of been fired on the spot.

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- happyperson101
  Posted on February 9, 2013 at 10:32pm
  Actually, I go to marquises school and he’s a total jerk. Hes really disrespectful to his teachers and he’s mean to everyone too..
  
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- Girard1974
  Posted on February 9, 2013 at 10:39pm
  “Despended?!?” Oh, this explains quite a bit about our education system. Still, I tried to figure out if this word (suspended) was somehow typed in incorrectly due to fingers in the wrong position on the keyboard – nope, don’t see it.
  
  But then I noticed something else: “should of” been fired. Argh!! It’s “should have” or “should’ve!!”
  
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- tnw71
  Posted on February 10, 2013 at 7:57am
  @ girard – despended is a joking reference to a different article you dip s**t. A little boy said he was ‘despended’ because he was throwing imaginary grenades to save the world and he couldn’t understand why he was despended for it, you moron.
  
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- oneshiner
  Posted on February 10, 2013 at 10:30am
  It’s a new word I’ll always use from now on in honor of that little kid despended from school because he threw an imaginary hand grenade at an imaginary box to “save the world” and was despended.
  
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denkat56
Posted on February 9, 2013 at 7:35pm
Its funny how the power of being a teacher goes to one’s head. To mistreat students and then fall on the union to protect your actions. Who’s worse the teacher or the union?

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- Barnesrickw
  Posted on February 9, 2013 at 7:42pm
  Well, you just might have hit it right on the head. Teachers are in it for the power.
  
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- yougottabekidding
  Posted on February 9, 2013 at 7:51pm
  Picture of the kid not the teacher, I wonder
  
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Skrewedretiree
Posted on February 9, 2013 at 6:53pm
The National Education Association and the Department of Education are both nothing but a bunch of nazi thugs and bueaucrats. The NEA should be outlawed and the Dept. of Ejumakashun should be abolished.

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- Barnesrickw
  Posted on February 9, 2013 at 7:43pm
  Then they could repeal no child left behind on the state level. That would be nice.
  
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- yougottabekidding
  Posted on February 9, 2013 at 8:35pm
  Thanks to Bush a high school diploma is worthless and the entrance into higher education and the job market because you have one is a joke
  
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ARSILHOUETTE
Posted on February 9, 2013 at 6:30pm
I have a friend who’s daughter’s teacher would purposely mispronouce her name, When she finally refused to answer to it, he sent her to the principals office. I know the teacher (retired thank GOD) and he is a arrogant ass. I remember respecting my teachers and being treated with respect. I was sent to the principals office only once and I had what is now called ADD.

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progressiveslayer
Posted on February 9, 2013 at 6:28pm
The teacher should be reprimanded because if the teachers fired the union will get the teachers job back,they get their jobs back for a lot worse infractions than this. The public school monopoly should be busted into a million pieces along with the NEA,both are useless organizations that should cease to exist.

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- Skrewedretiree
  Posted on February 9, 2013 at 6:50pm
  100% Dittos on that and AMEN!
  
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- Shrugged
  Posted on February 9, 2013 at 7:18pm
  @PROGRESSIVE – I disagree. I say pull out the stops and make the Unions spend their money defending these idiots. Let the union treasury dry up and leave them hanging. I suspect before they run out of money, they will stop defending idiots. Put them in the middle of fixing this problem
  
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- taxpro4u03
  Posted on February 10, 2013 at 5:28am
  @ Shrugged: — don’t cost all that much to file a claim in FEDERAL court under 42 USC 1983 — Give the libs the attention they seek by doing so honorably…. joint and several!! Hiding behind ‘union’ is akin to hiding behind … ‘children.’ ah — the irony…
  
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toiletclogga
Posted on February 9, 2013 at 6:11pm
My mother and father never took my side. They sided with the teacher! If you want to know more about the student, know the parent. The acorn doesn’t fall far from the tree. It is typical that if the student is disrespectful, the parent is disrespectful. Instead of condemning the teacher, he/she should be congratulated on a well placed shot with the pencil shavings.

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- The_Jerk
  Posted on February 9, 2013 at 6:17pm
  Agree.
  
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- fmbmitgt
  Posted on February 9, 2013 at 6:22pm
  Remember: always pass to the left, cuz you’re HIGH! Smack my kid on the hand with a ruler, make him drop and do 20 pushups, send him to the Principal’s office, make him do whatever, but DON”T PUT ANYTHING IN HIS MOUTH, or I’m coming for you.
  
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- The_Jerk
  Posted on February 9, 2013 at 6:24pm
  Even money says that the kid’s no saint.
  
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- 3monkeysmomma
  Posted on February 9, 2013 at 9:19pm
  In this child defense, recent studies have suggested that teen boys need as much sleep as a toddler.
  
  I remember being 14 and talking a nap after school fairly regularly myself.
  
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- shorelineliz
  Posted on February 10, 2013 at 12:01am
  I had some good parents and some BAD TEACHERS! Some times a kid is “defending” himself against such teachers and when I went to school teachers ruled with too much power. Hitting kids. Slapping kids. Paddling kids. I don’t know what this kid said or did. But, there is NO excuse to put pencil shavings in a kid’s mouth. The kid could have choked or worse. There are PLENTY of BAD TEACHERS where kids are pushing back to defend themselves. Yet they are sent to the principal’s office and never believed. This disgusting public school system PROTECTS ******* teachers like the one above because any teacher who would do that to a kid is a straight up A$$wipe! I battled BAD TEACHERS all my life in school. My parents taught me to stand up for myself and if any adult messed with me I was to defend myself. I never once went to the principals office. EVER! I questioned my teachers. I framed my arguments this way. My parents were never called because
  they taught me since I was little to handle my own business. I don’t know this kid but I know so many kids in school who were abused by teachers because they could. I saw so many kids expelled for just defending themselves. They were all labeled “trouble makers” by teachers. Not one single teacher messed with me. They knew better. They knew I meant business. I had my arguments down pat for my lessons. I was prepared with my schooling. There are tons of kids labeled “disrespectful” when they are defending themselves against abuse.
  
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- JediKnight
  Posted on February 10, 2013 at 12:01am
  @THE_JERK: What kid is a saint? Likely none. That doesn’t excuse or give the teacher the right to do that. I side with the teachers right now a lot too when my son is clearly doing something he’s not suppose to. But I would be pissed beyond belief if they did something like this.
  
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huey6367
Posted on February 9, 2013 at 5:53pm
Dissolve the Department of Education. Waste of time and money. Education has only become worse since the formation of that department.

Home school your kids. That is the only way they will learn the truth.

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- Barnesrickw
  Posted on February 9, 2013 at 6:14pm
  I think that is a great idea. Maybe kids would grow up with manners if their parents had to actually spend time with them.
  
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- BADDOGGYDESCIPLE
  Posted on February 9, 2013 at 6:49pm
  I’ve always wondered why the Department of Education even exists at the Fed level, there are no students in those buildings. Maybe we start with a law that no funds go to buildings where there aren’t students. That 70+Billion/year better spent at the state level.
  
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- The-Monk
  Posted on February 9, 2013 at 7:19pm
  @BADDOGGYDESCIPLE
  
  Do you know how BadDoggy is doing? I know he was sick for a while and then came back briefly.
  
  He seems to be gone again. Any news?
  
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nzkiwi
Posted on February 9, 2013 at 5:47pm
The young man had his “head back and mouth open”. He was asleep.

This seems to be a fairly light-hearted way of pointing out the error of his ways. He was uninjured, except for his pride.

Instead of changing his behaviour and his contempt for his teachers, he went home and told his mother. Is this the sort of behaviour that one wants to instil in one’s children?

Does his mother support the teachers who are struggling to educate her young while they openly sleep in the classroom? No, she demands that the teacher forfeit her job.

These are immature, impressionable young minds that are being handed considerable power over teachers and other adults.

Do you think that the lazy and insolent won’t use it?

Do you think that this doesn’t reinforce the sense of entitlement and immunity from consequences that is blighting the lives of the young?

My eldest daughter was difficult to handle when she started school. I told the teachers that I would support them 100% in any punishment for bad behaviour, including smacking if necessary. (They didn’t smack her.)

As soon as she realised that she couldn’t worm her way out of the consequences of her behaviour, she settled down and started to work.

Now, at the age of six and a half, her reading ability is a full year above her age. She has a passion for learning that and other abilities that make my heart soar with pride.

Her teachers did that…

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- Barnesrickw
  Posted on February 9, 2013 at 6:03pm
  I’m beginning to think everybody should homeschool with tutors if necessary.
  
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- Kuurus
  Posted on February 9, 2013 at 6:34pm
  I think I’d have had worse trouble when I told my parents. Dad just might have feed me sawdust :S
  
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- fmbmitgt
  Posted on February 10, 2013 at 5:17pm
  NZ KIWI, you’re very wrong. There is a line to not cross when it comes to school discipline. All sorts of non-invasive punishments are fine – even paddling, IMO. But you don’t make someone ingest anything.
  
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- Benjamin Abruzzo
  Posted on February 11, 2013 at 1:40am
  @NZKIWI said: “He was asleep. This seems to be a fairly light-hearted way of pointing out the error of his ways. He was uninjured, except for his pride.”
  
  Okay, let’s look at the science. The child’s hea was back, so his windpipe was wide open. The teacher put small pieces of wood into his mouth, whic could easily be inhaled into his lungs and caused him to need major surgery.
  
  Yup, light hearted. And a rock to his head would have been a live tap.
  
  Are you that open to violence tha riskig a person’s lungs scared for life and needing medical care for years is funny to you?
  
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Barnesrickw
Posted on February 9, 2013 at 5:46pm
Seems harsh. My teachers used to just hit you with a paddle or throw erasers at your head. If I went home crying to mommy, I would get in trouble for causing problems in school. Different times I guess.

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- huey6367
  Posted on February 9, 2013 at 5:52pm
  PC is going to destroy the country.
  
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Bernard Gui
Posted on February 9, 2013 at 5:42pm
My junior high geography teacher, Mr. Grosnek, would come up behind you and kick the chair out from under you if you were leaning back, and then grab you by the collar and belt and throw you out the door. He only had to do it once. (1959)

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jungle J
Posted on February 9, 2013 at 5:36pm
If any of you have interacted with the average teacher since 1970″s you realize many if not most are mentally ill and self absorbed.

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- The_Jerk
  Posted on February 9, 2013 at 5:39pm
  Even money that this kid’s no saint.
  
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- Sosorryforyou
  Posted on February 9, 2013 at 7:27pm
  This has got to be one of the most ridiculous statements I’ve ever read. This Country has amazing public school teachers!
  
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Jake Dog2
Posted on February 9, 2013 at 5:18pm
Is that anything like water boarding without the water?

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UNALIEN
Posted on February 9, 2013 at 5:08pm
suspended, the teacher should be arrested

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- JanMoi
  Posted on February 9, 2013 at 5:29pm
  You are right, the teacher should be arrested. I read stories like this, and I wonder WHY people who don’t like teaching want to teach to begin with. They should find another line of work.
  
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- The_Cabrito_Goat
  Posted on February 9, 2013 at 7:07pm
  Apparently it is unacceptable for a unionized teacher to be fired, either
  
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ABRAXUS
Posted on February 9, 2013 at 5:07pm
That is one way to get the class’s attention

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Saff SGT
Posted on February 9, 2013 at 4:59pm
Unions again hmmm Obama voters I knew it

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sligresda
Posted on February 9, 2013 at 4:58pm
bet he wont be fallin asleep in class again. lesson learned.

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- ScottgPlumb
  Posted on February 9, 2013 at 5:12pm
  AGREED!!!! This was totally wrong and the teracher should have been fired, but as usual, much of the story is left out. Not that is was ok by any means, but what happened leading up to the incident besides the boy sleeping??
  
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Eastinfection
Posted on February 9, 2013 at 4:56pm
Pencil shavings aren’t that bad if you deep fry them in beef fat 1st.

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- DEFCON4
  Posted on February 9, 2013 at 5:18pm
  @East, A nice ‘white’ glue would compliment the ‘shavings’…
  
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- crackerone
  Posted on February 9, 2013 at 5:41pm
  Good source of fiber!
  
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- 13th Imam
  Posted on February 9, 2013 at 6:27pm
  Puts lead in your pencil.
  
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Texas Hills Patriot
Posted on February 9, 2013 at 4:55pm
Once again, we learn the name of the student, but not the teacher! This is ridiculous. Arlington ISD and union covering for the “teacher”.

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tonypro
Posted on February 9, 2013 at 4:53pm
Have to agree with the parent.
This non-teacher should be fired, and banned from any classroom anywhere.
If she shows this poor of a lack of judgement, what else is she capable of ?

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environmentalandawake
Posted on February 9, 2013 at 4:48pm
Actually she should be arrested for attempted murder. There is a certain amount of lead in those shavings!

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- RANGER1965
  Posted on February 9, 2013 at 4:54pm
  uh…no.
  
  Pencils haven’t had lead in them since the 50′s. They are made from non-toxic graphite.
  
  I’m sure it was one of those irresistable moments where the student was likely snoring, with his head back. It’s still more of a prank you would play on a buddy. It’s not appropriate for someone in authority to do this.
  
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- ScottgPlumb
  Posted on February 9, 2013 at 5:14pm
  Hey environmentalandawake….WAKE UP on your Lead facts. I know its called Pencil “Lead” but theres no Lead in them and hasnt been for a very very long time. Either way…Get her name and demand they Fire the teacher
  
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SocialistSlayer
Posted on February 9, 2013 at 4:48pm
Yes, This incident deserves that the teacher be fired. The Union Thugs have protected another Child Molester!

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- Saff SGT
  Posted on February 9, 2013 at 5:01pm
  you got that right Union thugs that voted for obama
  
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