Posted on 04/05/2007 6:06:19 AM PDT by Northern Alliance
CLEARWATER, Fla. - A high school senior acknowledges he went too far when he mooned a teacher. But he thinks the decision of school officials to send him to a new school for the rest of the year was too harsh, so his family is suing.
Tyler Tillung, 18, mooned a teacher "suddenly and without thinking about the consequences" in February, according to the lawsuit filed Tuesday. The teacher had declined to let him into a Feb. 21 school lip sync show that was full. He was suspended for six days and reassigned to a new school.
But the teen wants to graduate with his Palm Harbor University High class in six weeks and complete his final season on the varsity baseball team, the lawsuit said.
"We're talking about his graduation," said Tillung's lawyer, B. Edwin Johnson. "That's an important event in a guy's life. ... This kid deserves a break."
School Board Attorney Jim Robinson said administrators stand by their decision.
"Without knowing the allegations, we're confident in the administration's position on this case," Robinson said. Palm Harbor principal Herman "Doc" Allen described the mooning as "disgusting" and the teacher as "traumatized."
LOL!
No
BUMP
It may be an alternative campus where problem students are sent.
Also, I can understand the school district not allowing him back on his campus.
There had already been a mooning incident when he pulled his cute little prank and, very honestly, these things give other students ideas.
The rampant disrespect among a huge portion of the students in the high school where I work makes it difficult, to put it lightly, to keep them within decent behavior guidelines.
A student being given a few days detention for something like this would be interpreted as a free ticket to hundreds of other smart-alecs to do the same thing.
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