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    BRICKBATS

    Jun 21, 2019 2 minutes
    —CHARLES OLIVER

    In Johnson County, Kansas, a 5-year-old student hid inside a bookshelf in the Bluejacket-Flint Elementary School library. A teacher named Crystal Smith found the girl, angrily pulled her out, waited for another adult who was present to turn away, and, video footage shows, kicked the student in the back.

    Former Iowa Department of Human Services social worker

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