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First grade teacher Kelly McCallister, is pied by a student in front of the student body at the Hamtramck Academy Tuesday, March 14, 2017, in Hamtramck, Mich. Students at the school recited pi and celebrated pi by throwing a pie in the face of their favorite teacher. Hamtramck Academy is a free public charter school that serves students in kindergarten through eighth grade. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio)

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Third grade teacher Jonathan Segerstron, is seen after getting pied in front of the student body at the Hamtramck Academy Tuesday, March 14, 2017, in Hamtramck, Mich. Students at the school recited pi and celebrated pi by throwing a pie in the face of their favorite teacher. Hamtramck Academy is a free public charter school that serves students in kindergarten through eighth grade. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio)

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Gold Ridge Elementary School in Folsom, California, banned touch football games and 'tag' due to fears that students were being too rough. (CBS-13 Sacramento screenshot)

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Richard Spencer, who leads a movement that mixes racism, white nationalism and populism, speaks at the Texas A&M University campus in College Station, Texas, in this Dec. 6, 2016, file photo. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip, File)

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FILE – In this Feb. 3, 2015, file photo, employees prepare for the grand opening of an Amazon@Purdue store in Purdue University's Krach Leadership Center in West Lafayette, Ind. The internet giant Amazon.com Inc. plans to begin construction in spring 2017 of a 900-square-foot retail space in Columbus, Ohio, near the Ohio State University campus, where students can pick up books and other items ordered online. Amazon has opened similar stores at more than a dozen U.S. colleges and universities. (Joseph Paul/Journal & Courier via AP, File)

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Assemblyman Phil Ting, D-San Francisco, center, speaks in support of a plan to reduce student loan debt in California, Monday, March 13, 2017, in Sacramento, Calif. The plan would expand financial aid for students at public colleges and universities in the state. (AP Photo/Sophia Bollag)

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Education Secretary Betsy DeVos listens as President Donald Trump speaks during a Cabinet meeting in the Cabinet Room of the White House in Washington, Monday, March 13, 2017. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik) ** FILE **

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FILE - This undated file photo shows Lowell Holtz, a candidate for Wisconsin state superintendent. Holtz, a former teacher, principal and superintendent who is now retired, will face incumbent Tony Evers in the April 4, 2017, election. Personal records show that Holtz was chastised by the school board where he most recently worked for donating football field bleachers to a nearby private school his children attended without notifying the board. (Wisconsin State Journal via AP, File)

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FILE - In this March 18, 2015, file photo, Dearborn Public Schools Superintendent Brian Whiston interviews for the State Superintendent of Public Instruction in Lansing, Mich. Whiston, Michigan's state superintendent, is dropping a plan to give a letter grade to every public school and, barring legislative action, instead will issue a report card showing indicators such as each school's proficiency on the state exam, The Associated Press has learned. (Todd McInturf/Detroit News via AP, File)

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Marti Kashuba holds up a sign outside of St. Mary's Cathedral in San Francisco, Friday, Feb. 6, 2015. The Roman Catholic archbishop of San Francisco is getting pushback from some parents, students and teachers at parochial schools after unveiling faculty handbook language calling on teachers to lead their public and professional lives consistently with church teachings on homosexuality, same-sex marriage, abortion, birth control and other behaviors he describes as evil. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu) **FILE**

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In this Feb. 11, 2017 photo, exchange student Abigail Adusei poses for a portrait in between classes at Manual Academy in Peoria, Ill. "Being an exchange student I've been able to learn different cultures and things much different from what I was used to," said Adusei, who is a foreign exchange student from Ghana. "Really all I knew about culture in the United States was what we saw in the movies, and Manual High isn't anything like what I saw in High School Musical." (Ryan Michalesko/Journal Star via AP)

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In this Feb. 11, 2017 photo, exchange student Abigail Adusei practices the piano during class at Manual Academy, in Peoria, Ill. "Being an exchange student I've been able to learn different cultures and things much different from what I was used to," said Adusei, who is a foreign exchange student from Ghana. "Really all I knew about culture in the United States was what we saw in the movies, and Manual High isn't anything like what I saw in High School Musical." (Ryan Michalesko/Journal Star via AP)

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In this Feb. 11, 2017 photo, exchange student Abigail Adusei practices the piano during class at Manual Academy, in Peoria, Ill. "Being an exchange student I've been able to learn different cultures and things much different from what I was used to," said Adusei, who is a foreign exchange student from Ghana. "Really all I knew about culture in the United States was what we saw in the movies, and Manual High isn't anything like what I saw in High School Musical." (Ryan Michalesko/Journal Star via AP)

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In this Feb. 11, 2017 photo, exchange student Abigail Adusei, right, works with her teacher Kelly Nyquist during class at Manual Academy in Peoria, Ill. "Being an exchange student I've been able to learn different cultures and things much different from what I was used to," said Adusei, who is a foreign exchange student from Ghana. "Really all I knew about culture in the United States was what we saw in the movies, and Manual High isn't anything like what I saw in High School Musical."(Ryan Michalesko/Journal Star via AP)

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Pennsylvania poses with the Ivy League tournament trophy following an NCAA college basketball championship game against Princeton, Sunday, March 12, 2017, in Philadelphia. Pennsylvania won 57-48. (AP Photo/Chris Szagola)

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Michigan celebrates with the trophy after the Big Ten NCAA college basketball championship game against Wisconsin, Sunday, March 12, 2017, in Washington. Michigan won 71-56. (AP Photo/Nick Wass)

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In this Wednesday, March 8, 2017 photo, "Prince Peep," a rooster native to Malaysia, wears a sweater at Fuller Village retirement home in Milton, Mass. The sweater was one of many knitted by a group of women in the retirement home for chickens in a neighboring nonprofit education program. (AP Photo/Steven Senne)

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ADVANCE FOR USE SUNDAY, MARCH 12, 2017, AND THEREAFTER- In this March 10, 2017, photo, Assistant Principal Whitney Watchman gives a tour of one of two new wash rooms at East High School in Salt Lake City. The school is transforming two small locker rooms into laundry/shower rooms for the school's homeless students in hopes of helping them with basic necessities so they can focus on learning, KSL-Radio reported. (Spenser Heaps/The Deseret News via AP)

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ADVANCE FOR USE SUNDAY, MARCH 12, 2017, AND THEREAFTER- In this March 10, 2017, photo, Assistant Principal Whitney Watchman gives a tour of one of two new wash rooms at East High School in Salt Lake City. The school is transforming two small locker rooms into laundry/shower rooms for the school's homeless students in hopes of helping them with basic necessities so they can focus on learning, KSL-Radio reported. (Spenser Heaps/The Deseret News via AP)