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Arizona teacher locks students in closet

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    Teacher disciplined after locking three students in closet for half hour

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Williams high school teacher Sheldon white has been a teacher for seventeen years.

But he landed himself in some trouble after -- three students in a closet for half an hour last month on the paint -- and really upset about it.

My extremely mean if -- it was locked in -- closet I mean.

Might be a little -- parents may be upset but the coconino county attorney's office declined to press any criminal charges.

Calling it a matter for the school to handle.

School district superintendent Rachel savage sent boxed in a statement saying Williams unified notified law enforcement and cooperated with -- investigation.

As superintendent I found this conduct serious and made a recommendation to the governing board to impose serious discipline dismiss.

The board ruled this week to suspend white for the rest of the semester a period of nineteen school days and -- to return to the classroom.

I think it was -- -- bulldozers Tuesday but the students should have been punished here because they were told not to go in the closet.

More than once in this close knit tourist town it seems everyone has heard what happened at Williams -- A friend of one of the students who was locked in a closet said he was surprised the story even left the classroom he didn't seem scared at all about it -- -- just like.

Well this is the main that seemed big -- -- -- a big deal against.

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