a hyphen before "they're encouraging it"

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Some schools are doing more than tolerating back talk in classrooms they're encouraging it, with new interactive learning devices.I feel that there should be a kind of punctuation before "they're encouraging it" like "-". Am I right?

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[+1] - contrex - 10/06/2009A colon is better in my opinion.
[+1] - sullyfish6 - 10/06/2009Some schools are doing more than tolerating back talk in classrooms, they're encouraging it with new interactive learning devices
[+1] - jinmin1988 - 10/06/2009Thank you for your reply, but your answer has no conjunction between two sentences.
[+1] - oolongteasup - 10/06/2009instead of a conjunction use a fw
[+1] - jinmin1988 - 10/06/2009what is fw?
[+1] - contrex - 10/06/2009sullyfish's reply is one sentence, containing two clauses separated by a comma.
[+1] - jinmin1988 - 10/06/2009i cannot understand. How two clauses being together like that?

A colon is better in my opinion.

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Some schools are doing more than tolerating back talk in classrooms, they're encouraging it with new interactive learning devices

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@sullyfish6,

Thank you for your reply, but your answer has no conjunction between two sentences.

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@jinmin1988,

instead of a conjunction use a fw

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@oolongteasup,

what is fw?

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@jinmin1988,

sullyfish's reply is one sentence, containing two clauses separated by a comma.

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@contrex,

i cannot understand. How two clauses being together like that?

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