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Alex Barton, is a five-year-old boy in Port St. Lucie, Florida. Wendy Portillo, Alex’s kindergarten teacher recently humiliated him by have the other students in the class take turns telling Alex “what they don’t like about him.” She followed this up by having the students vote on whether Alex should stay in the class or not. Alex was kicked out, by a 14-2 margin.

http://www.tcpalm.com/news/2008/may/23/st-lucie-teacher-has-class-vote-whether-5-year-old/

The OAC’s Laura Kirby-McIntosh created an online petition to have Wendy Portillo fired,

http://www.thepetitionsite.com/1/Fire-teacher-for-unprofessional-conduct

Response has exploded. CNN Headline News covered this in the following interview, aired May 28th on the Glenn Beck Show:

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