Outrageous School Suspensions
Blacks are suspended three times more than whites.
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Ahmed Mohamed Suspended for Self-Made Clock Mistaken as Bomb - African-Americans are suspended more than three times as often as white students and twice as often as Latino students, according to a 2013 study by the University of California-Los Angeles Civil Rights project. Take a look at outrageous school suspensions and arrests of students of color. – Natelege Whaley Ahmed Mohamed is brilliant. The 14-year-old built a clock and brought it to his high school to show his engineering teacher. Instead of being celebrated, he was arrested by Irving, Texas police because his teacher thought beeping from the clock was "suspicious" and could be a possible bomb. Mohamed was suspended from his school for three days. His father Mohamed Elhassan Mohamed said his son was mistreated because "his name is Mohamed and because of Sept. 11," AP re...
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Atiya Haynes Suspended for School Year for Pocket Knife - Atiya Haynes, a student at Annapolis High School in Dearborn Heights, Michigan, was suspended for the rest of the school year in October 2014 for having a pocketknife. She forgot that she had the weapon her grandfather gave her for protection after she was hired as a lifeguard in July in a neighborhood that was a 45-minute bicycle ride away from her home, WXYZ reports. School officals found the knife while they were searching her bag for marijuana, which she didn't have. The senior will have to complete her coursework on-line to graduate in 2015. (Photo: Courtesy WXYZ)
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Kiera Wilmot - Kiera Wilmot, 16, was known as a good student at her Florida high school, but her curiosity in creating a small explosive concoction on school grounds left her expelled and facing felony charges in May 2013. The charges were eventually dropped, and Wilmot was later offered a scholarship to a space camp. (Photo: Courtesy of WTSP.com)
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Wesley Teague Suspended for Tweet - Heights High School in Wichita, Kansas, suspended senior Wesley Teague in May 2013 for the rest of his school year for a tweet he wrote about his school’s football team. “Heights U” is equivalent to WSU’s football team,” he wrote. The tweet offended school officials who said Teague was trying to “incite a disturbance.” (Photo: Courtesy KSN NBC News)
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Wilson Reyes Arrested for Scuffle Over $5 Bill With Classmate - Wilson Reyes, a third grader at a Bronx elementary school this past year, was arrested and locked up for 10 hours after he was involved in a fight with another student over a $5 bill in early December 2012. (Photo: Courtesy of Yankowitz Law Firm)
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Courtni Webb Suspended for Writing Sandy Hook Poem - In December 2012, Courtni Webb, a San Francisco high school student, faced possible expulsion for writing a dark poem about the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting. “The meaning of the poem is talking about society and how I understand why things like that incident happened. So it's not like I'm agreeing with it…,” she said. (Photo: Courtesy ABC News 7)
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Bryan Thompson Suspended for Wearing Banana Suit - In September 2012, during half-time at his high school football game, Bryan Thompson, then 14, put on a banana suit and ran around the football field as a joke. The Virginia teen received a 10-day suspension that was lessened to five days. During his time off, his supporters created “Free Banana Man” T-shirts. (Photo: Courtesy Fox 5 News)
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Moses Hinton Suspended for Wiping Hands With American Flag - Moses Hinton, a 13-year-old Virginia Beach student, was suspended in June 2012 after teachers said he wiped his hands with an American flag in his school’s auditorium after using the bathroom. (Photo: Thinkstock/GettyImages)
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D’Avonte Meadows Suspended for Singing “I’m Sexy and I Know It” - D’Avonte Meadows, an Aurora, Colorado, elementary school student was suspended for three days for singing a popular song by LMFAO, “I’m sexy and I know it.” He said he was only singing the song while he was standing near a girl in the lunch line in May 2012. But school officials told his mother that it was sexual harassment. (Photo: Courtesy ABC News)
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6-Year-Old Arrested for Talking in Class - In April 2012, Salecia Johnson, who was 6 years old at the time, was handcuffed after she had a temper tantrum in class. She apparently threw books and toys and a shelf that hit her principal in the leg. She was taken to the police precinct but was not charged. (Photo: AP Photo/WMAZ-13 TV)
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Detroit Students Protest High School They’re Unhappy With - In April 2012, more than 100 students of Detroit’s Western International High School were suspended for walking out and protesting what they believe has been a poor quality education at their school. (Photo: Courtesy FOX News)