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Friday 23 May 2014

A Georgia High School Senior Got Suspended for Her Yearbook Quote



A senior at Mundy Mill's High School in Clayton County, Georgia, stirred up a lot of controversy this week over a small joke she stealthily included in her senior yearbook quote.
Senior class vice president Paris Gray decided to make her yearbook quote a ~joke~ by writing, "When the going gets tough just remember to Barium Carbon Potassium Thorium Astatine Arsenic Sulfur Uranium Phosphorus." If you're not a science whiz like Paris, the elements' abbreviations translate to: Ba+C+K  Th+At  As+S  U+p. (Bonus points for *creativity*.)

Unfortunately, Paris's school wasn't as amused. After discovering what her periodic table code words really meant, they threatened to take away her senior year glory. Paris was given an in-school suspension, banned from participating in her senior walk, and then told she wouldn't be able to give her scheduled inspirational speech at graduation. That's when she decided to fight back.
"I think their reaction was beyond what it should have been because nobody understood it," Paris told her local news station WSB-TV. "Basically, it was me just saying start all over again. You have to go back and start all over."
After Paris met with school administrators, they decided to let her give her speech, challenging her to give "the best speech ever."
Fingers crossed she gives her entire speech in periodic table elements. Now that would be hilarious.

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