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The boy tells his mother what had happened.
She holds him close and talks soothingly to him as he cries.
She doesn't say anything more about it until the boy's father comes home, and then she's screaming, slamming her hand down onto the kitchen counter top. His father is yelling as well, saying what he'll tell the school in the morning.
They go down to the school the next day and demand justice. The school says there is no proof of the teacher's misconduct, that the marks could have come from anywhere, and that the boy was lucky he would be able to stay in the school after making such an accusation.
The teacher continues to punish him, beating him at the slightest opportunity.
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