Boy's Suspension For Speaking Spanish Reversed

Boy's Suspension For Speaking Spanish Reversed

POSTED: 11:22 am EST December 9, 2005

KANSAS CITY, Kan. -- A school superintendent apologized to a student who was suspended last week for speaking Spanish at school.

Zach Rubio, a 16-year-old high school junior, was sent home from the Endeavor Alternative School on Nov. 28 for talking in Spanish at lunch and later in the day. Principal Jennifer Watts sent him home and suspended him through the following day.

District officials said Watts told the boy's father the suspension was a direct result of his speaking Spanish. Superintendent of Schools Bobby Allen reversed the suspension within hours of learning about it from the father, the district said.

"As soon as he found out, he contacted the parent and said that should not have happened," said Bart Swartz, the district's executive director of certified personnel.

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For crying out loud!

Isn't this the same state that had to change the definition of "Science" to push ID into the schools?

:dunce:

We debated the shite outta this yesterday..and there were some who thought the kid was wrong..tsk tsk.