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Teachers who called in sick during the protests against Scott Walker’s anti-union bill caused many districts to close for a day or more, but Madison’s legal counsel says his district was the only one to shut down for four days, "so the anger and the rhetoric is very heated here” and there have been "a number of threats." One parent was charged with a misdemeanor after allegedly leaving a voicemail on a middle school's main number threatening to "come down there and punch you guys right in the face." But the head of one conservative think tank says taxpayers have the right to know, and adds that "no one really believes that someone would use the information to do something that crosses the line."
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