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Girl suspended for saying 'hell'
A seven-year-old girl has been suspended from her school in the US for saying the word "hell" to a classmate.
Brandy McKenith from Pittsburgh said she was punished because she had explained to a boy who had said "I swear to God" that he would go to hell.
The Pittsburgh school district is investigating the suspension.
The student code bans profanity but does not give a clear definition of what profanity is, a Public Schools spokeswoman told local press.
Brandy told the BBC's World Today radio programme that she did not think she had been rude.
Her father, Wayne McKenith, told the programme he was outraged at this week's decision by Sunnyside Elementary to impose a suspension.
"I thought it was utterly senseless, especially in the context - the Biblical context - she used it in."
"Here in America we have real problems in schools," he said.
"We have guns, drugs, dope, and you're worried about a kid saying hell in a Biblical context - and you suspend her for that."
The girl's parents complained to the principal of the elementary school, which is in the north-eastern state of Pennsylvania.
Here's hoping this story reaches an "okeley-dokeley" conclusion soon.
It's not the word (Score:2)
It's not the word so much as it is the Biblical context in which it was said that most likely got her in trouble. There are people in this country who go out of their way to be offended by anything that even remotely resembles something religious. She could've called her teacher a "shit-guzzling fucktard" and gotten a less severe punishment for it than for telling another studen
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Re:It's not the word (Score:1)
Not like it's so fucking hard to join a really unfucking incredible club, particularly when membership is decided solely based on a phenomenal shittard, whose pussified ears probably melted at this lameass turn of events.
BTW, I think I'm a charter member.
bloody hell... (Score:2)
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Re:bloody hell... (Score:2)
Mmmmmm, lager, sir, is regal.
Re:bloody hell... (Score:1)
the school probably has some rules against alcohol references as well. zero tolerance policies rule.
Oy (Score:2)
We need to rehabilitate her. Being tough on crime never works.;)
Being from Pennsylvania.... (Score:1)
The whole religion thing is way out of whack. Right now in my town there's some political group trying to get a "10 Commandments" statue ripped out of a public park, where it's been for 50 years. They will probably have to move it. It's a shame, it's a nice monument, no one ever said you had to look at it, no one said that "all other religions are banned from the site" when they put it up. But it's "offensive" to some one.
Oh well, I think this will