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Brickbat: Don't Stand So Close to Me

Charles Oliver | 4.17.2012 9:30 AM

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Ryan Blackmon, an eighth-grader at North Carolina's Bladenboro Middle School, says he was very relieved when a teacher broke up an impending fight with another student. He thanked her and tried to hug her. Officials suspended Blackmon for violating a ban on hugging teachers.

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Charles Oliver is a contributing editor at Reason.

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