What may seem like a bit of harmless social commentary to you and me was enough to get a first-grade girl suspended from school. When Natalie Day, a first-grade student in the Yuba City Unified School District in Yuba City, California, scribbled out the face of a classmate in her yearbook, penning “because she is rude” next to the picture, it was the last straw. The school district suspended Day and the other student in question.
Natalie’s mother, Crystal Ledger, said, “I told her she did nothing wrong. This is her yearbook. I bought it for her, if she chooses to cut out, like, stick people, that’s fine. This is her property.”
The school district’s superintendent, Nancy Aaberg, says there’s more to the story than just a yearbook defacement and the subsequent disruption, but due to privacy concerns she can’t elaborate. “I don’t want to make too much drama out of it but we have to agree that there’s more to the story that I’m not able to share.” Must be something juicy there!
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