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Brickbat: In the Closet

Charles Oliver | 12.11.2012 8:00 AM


James Cagle and his wife panicked when their 5-year-old son didn't come home from school. They rushed to Idaho's Washington Elementary School, where they found the boy alone in a small dark room. A teacher had placed the boy in the room for misbehaving earlier in the day and apparently forgotten about him.

Charles Oliver is a contributing editor at Reason.

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