suspended for a school project

[sio]

you have a high-school aged daughter in a business and communications class. a video assignment "to create a persuasive promo or advertisement" is given and she chooses to create an anti-bullying message.

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[darth_snarky]

Now I wonder what the actual grade she got was. Sounds like she deserves a good one.

Seems like they've made a much bigger disruption by suspending her.

[sio]

i am wondering what the teacher had to say myself. the girl's aunt has commented on the article--i hope she has time to come back and answer my question about the teacher's opinion/grade given.

[pyxiwulf]

Last thing I heard this blew up and she was suspended and not allowed to turn it in.

[snooji]

If the principal acts this way to someone apparently doing a good job in raising awareness about bullying, I wonder how they handle actual bullying.

[designingdreams]

This was my thought.

From what I've seen, perhaps the teen should've made the disclaimers more obvious/at the top of the Facebook page and beginning of the video. Even still, she didn't deserve a suspension for what is actually a very well done assignment that someone misinterpreted.

Isn't it a tad ironic that school officials are basically bullying her for her anti-bullying project?

[snooji]

Isn't it a tad ironic that school officials are basically bullying her for her anti-bullying project? Yeah, no kidding. Not to mention this is a school and a place for her to learn she should provide disclaimers and whatnot on the project itself.

[designingdreams]

She did provide disclaimers on the fake Facebook and the video,
But they weren't super obvious or up front. Apparently the parent who reported the Facebook didn't see her posts saying it was fake because they were further down on her wall.

[missingkeys]

Awesome video. Terrible spelling, but otherwise she did a great job.

If she were my kid I'd definitely fight the suspension.

[failstoexist]

If my child's project was within the written guidelines of the project, and she wasn't trying to convince anyone it was a real person's profile, then we'll fight the decision all the way. Obviously it *was* persuasive, it convinced her classmates, so no one can argue that it didn't successfully complete the requirements of the assignment.

[northernwalker]

I'd start by headdesking, then call my lawyer in to explain why the principal is incorrect in his actions and just how stupid he's going to look when I contact the local news to pass on a story about how a teen made an anti-bullying video and is now being bullied by her school's administration.