Claire Wright at the Thomas Jefferson School of Law in San Diego,California,says legal protections do not always cover all kinds of abuse.

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Wright School, Principal Sharon Clark laments the loss.

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Wright Middle School in Madison, Wisconsin.

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Obama, who has been close to Wright since law school, has likened him to an "old uncle" who sometimes says disagreeable things.

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