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Tim Scott: “The government school system in the United States, I describe as a system largely of institutionalized child abuse”

On the recordMarch 2, 2015
The government school system in the United States, I describe as a system largely of institutionalized child abuse
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Tim Scott
Republican · South Carolina

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Condemns the U.S. public school system for failing children.

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