Female teacher who banished boy to dark closet fired

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"A teacher who punished a student by putting him in a storage room without supervision has been fired by the Palm Beach County School Board.

Palm Beach Central High School teacher Rutha Scott lost her job Wednesday after an investigation found she placed a student in a closet for misbehaving, the second time the teacher had been accused of sending unruly students to a closet and the sixth time she had been accused of misconduct.

Scott sent the student to a classroom storage closet for as long as 15 minutes after she was interrupted during roll call in February. The student said the lights were off in the closet, which measured 16 feet by 6 feet."