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CAT Tracks for March 23, 2010
KUMBAYA II |
In light of yesterday's "alternative discipline" post, I felt it only right to report an egregious violation of said principle in our own Great State of Illinois.
An insensitive school district in suburban Chicago had the audacity to expel...EXPEL...a sweet, innocent 8th-Grade girl...GIRL...for setting a boy's hair on fire.
How barbaric...
From the KFVS TV Channel 12
Girl expelled for setting boy's hair on fire
Associated Press
OAK FOREST, Ill. (AP) - A suburban Chicago school district has expelled an eighth-grade girl for allegedly setting a younger student's hair on fire during a bus ride earlier this month.
Forest Ridge School District 142 Superintendent Margaret Longo confirmed the board's action Monday.
Longo said the girl, who was a student at Hille Middle School in Oak Forest, reportedly sprayed a sixth grade boy with perfume on the bus March 3 and then pulled out a cigarette lighter and began sparking it. Some of the perfume caught on fire, singeing the boy's hair and jacket.
Longo said options for families of expelled students are to hire a tutor, home school or apply for acceptance to a private school.
