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| December 15, 2003 | Wingert, Pat | COPYRIGHT 2009 Newsweek, Inc. All rights reserved. Any reuse, distribution or alteration without express written permission of Newsweek is prohibited. For permission: www.newsweek.com. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

Byline: Pat Wingert

Joe Pizza doesn't want to sound negative. An educator for 30 years--18 as principal of Silver Bay Elementary School in Toms River, N.J.--Pizza (pronounced Pee-sah) loves his job. But if he starts talking about what litigation is doing to American education, he can't hide his frustration. "Schools should be about what's best for the child, and secondly, we should be concerned about the law," he says. "But the law does tie our hands."

When he first started teaching, lawsuits didn't loom large in Pizza's imagination. Now, he says, schools get sued over anything, over nothing. Take the case of the group of fifth graders who were shooting…

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