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Handcuffed kids reveal teachers’ bondage

Another week, another tot gets his rights violated. A few days before Easter, police in Maspeth, N.Y., handcuffed a first-grader who had a temper tantrum after coloring an egg at school. But there’s something awry in these school scenes. Child. Tantrum. Principal. Police. Mom. Civil Rights. Lawyer. Lawsuit. There are a lot of players in such scenarios, but someone is missing. It’s the one person who has dedicated years of training to help a freaked-out child through a difficult moment without creating a federal case: the teacher.

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