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In California, officials at the Life Learning Academy have suspended Courtni Webb and are threatening to expel her. Webb authored a poem about the shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in which she wrote, "I understand the killings in Connecticut. I know why he pulled the trigger." School officials say that violated their zero tolerance policy on violence or threats of violence.

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