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Rough Around the Edges

Charles Oliver | 2.11.2013 7:25 AM

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Florida's Burns Middle School has placed teacher Anna Garrett on paid leave. Students at the school claim she punished them for misspelling words by forcing them to trace the letters of the words on sandpaper with their fingers until their fingertips bled.

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Charles Oliver is a contributing editor at Reason.

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