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  • Teen Suspended for Smoke Smell

    09/29/2004 5:28:16 AM PDT · by closet freeper · 541 replies · 6,231+ views
    WXIA-TV ATLANTA ^ | 9/27/2004 9:34:50 PM | Kay Flowers
    A Rockdale County father is fuming over his daughter’s in-school suspension. He said the teen’s only crime was simply smelling like smoke. Salem High School said it was standing by its strict no-smoking policy. Carlton Bates said his 17-year-old daughter, Amanda, went to the office at Salem and told an assistant principal she had an upset stomach. The administrator there “grabbed her shirt, smelled it, started smelling her hair and said, ‘You’ve been smoking,’ and my daughter replied, ‘I haven’t been smoking, I don’t smoke,’” Bates said. “She was not caught smoking, she was accused of smelling like smoke and...