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An elementary school teacher was placed on paid leave for washing a boy s mouth out with soap after he shouted an obscenity at a classmate.Lori Thomas, 48, who has taught for six years at inner-city School 22, said she was stunned when a 10-year-old boy directed a vile, very nasty sexual reference at a third-grade girl in March.Thomas said she didn t want the boy, who had frequently been sent home for unruly behavior, to earn another one-week suspension.She took the boy to the nurse s office, she said, put a drop of soap of his lower lip, washed it out immediately and told him I never wanted to hear filth like that coming out of his mouth again. Old-fashioned ways work, she said unapologetically. The boy
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