School Suspension

<span style="font-weight: 400;">A federal court in Maine <a href="http://www.courthousenews.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/suspension.pdf"><strong>granted</strong></a> a 15-year-old girl’s request to block her suspension from school for posting a note in the girl’s bathroom that read: “THERE’S A RAPIST IN OUR SCHOOL, AND YOU KNOW WHO IT IS.” </span>

CAPE ELIZABETH, Maine – A federal court in Maine granted a 15-year-old girl’s request to block her suspension from school for posting a note in the girl’s bathroom that read: “THERE’S A RAPIST IN OUR SCHOOL, AND YOU KNOW WHO IT IS.”

The judge ruled that the message was “not disruptive of school discipline.”

Categories / Civil Rights, Education

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