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| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» michaeldino replied on Wed Feb 4, 2004 @ 8:50pm |
 Coolness: 69695 | Second-grader suspended for telling classmate he would go to hell for cursing
Canadian Press Wednesday, February 04, 2004 PITTSBURGH (AP) - A second-grader was suspended for a day for telling a classmate he would go to hell for saying, "I swear to God." Brandy McKenith, seven, was suspended for swearing for saying the word "hell," but her family says she was referring to the biblical location of fire and brimstone. She served the suspension Tuesday. The Pittsburgh public schools' student code of conduct prohibits profanity, but doesn't provide a definition, spokeswoman Pat Crawford said. The school would not comment further. Brandy's father, Wayne McKenith, said when he learned about the suspension, he thought perhaps his daughter had said something worse, so he called the teacher for details. He was told another student overheard his daughter say the word. "I said, 'Hell? She got suspended for that?' " McKenith said. He said he asked the school to evaluate its profanity policy. " 'Hell' is like the least of the words in school today," McKenith said. "You go home and turn on the TV tonight and tell me how many times you hear the word 'hell.' And I mean network TV, not even cable." Without a clear definition, the district could run into problems enforcing the policy, said Witold Walczak, legal director of the Greater Pittsburgh chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union. "The school's policy says 'no profanity' and that's not further defined," Walczak said. "How should this little girl know that 'hell' is not allowed?" "It's questionable whether 'hell' is even a profanity, and it certainly isn't in the way that she used it," he added. McKenith, a suburban Pittsburgh police detective, said family members aren't "religious fanatics," but there's a healthy respect for the Lord, so he accepts her daughter's explanation. "She's under the assumption that good people go to heaven and . . . bad people go to hell," he said Wednesday. © Copyright 2004 The Canadian Press |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» Agent_Yogurt replied on Wed Feb 4, 2004 @ 10:15pm |
 Coolness: 134330 | so a kid gets suspended for telling another kid not to curse god? *shakes head* |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» G__ replied on Wed Feb 4, 2004 @ 10:28pm |
| Coolness: 142085 | what's the world coming too??? |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» neoform replied on Thu Feb 5, 2004 @ 1:18am |
 Coolness: 340385 | schools that suspend and expell students are basically cleansing their hands of a problem they should be fixing.
teachers should punish students for inapropriate behavior, not kick them out for a day and get the whole school hearing about it, thereby embarrassing the child. like, wtf. |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» lakester replied on Fri Feb 6, 2004 @ 5:46pm |
 Coolness: 60400 | seriously. i didn't learn anything from all those times i got suspended in elementary. |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» daFTWin replied on Sat Feb 7, 2004 @ 1:55pm |
 Coolness: 277155 | Shouldn't the kid who cursed get suspended?
I got sent home for telling a kid to fuck off infront of the lunch lady |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» nothingnopenope replied on Sun Feb 8, 2004 @ 3:47am |
 Coolness: 201945 | I was suspended too many times...
It was a totally ineffective means of punishment as I never wanted to go to school anyway when I was younger... |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» Zz.ee.vV replied on Sun Feb 8, 2004 @ 2:00pm |
 Coolness: 194745 | great encouragement not to refer to hell, heaven or damnation but instead use fuck, shit, bitch, cunty-eyed nut lickers, etc. |
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