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There are at least a couple of other threads on this subject now.

For an excellent commentary, see this one:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/851737/posts?page=1

For a thread with a related story see this one:http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/851305/posts

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I've sent a note to the WSJ pointing out that Bogeybob had the story a day earlier with THIS VERY THREAD. Another FreeRepublic scoop. It's obvious because the bloggers repeated a few of my transcription errors from #111!

ANYWAY, THANKS to all for helping to bring this to national attention. If we get proper attribution, way cool, but the important part is the message and getting these teachers STOPPED.

The back tracking of the story is troubling. I'll still go with the word of the Chaplin that 30 complaints were made. If "offers that can't be refused" helped those 30 kids, then we can live with that because the word must be going out quietly to the teachers to cool it.