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Do You See What I See?

Charles Oliver | 5.29.2014 6:00 AM


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It sounded simple enough. A second-grade teacher at Colorado's Talbott Elementary School asked her class to go outside, look at the clouds and then draw what they saw. Kody Smith thought the cloud he saw looked like a gun, so that's what he drew. His teacher filed a bad behavior report on him.

Charles Oliver is a contributing editor at Reason.

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