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Screw Big Bird! We want "Jerry Springer"

I don't ever want to go back to that kind of environment again. It's affected me emotionally ... I'm still in a lot of pain. How would you like it if people who you care about attack you for a TV program that has no educational value?”

-- New York City public school teacher Aishah Ahmad, 44, on being kicked, slapped, punched and spat on by her 11- and 12-year-old students after refusing to show them an episode of "The Jerry Springer Show" instead of an educational program. Quoted by Reuters.

 



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