Girl says 'hell' in school, suspended
Jeez, doesn't this make you wonder what might have happened if this poor girl had been doing something REALLY awful- like having sex with teachers in the faculty parking lot or smoking crack?
PITTSBURGH -- A second-grader was suspended for a day for telling a classmate he would go to hell for saying, "I swear to God."
Brandy McKenith, 7, was suspended for swearing for saying the word "hell," but her family says she was referring to the biblical location of fire and brimstone....
The Pittsburgh Public Schools' student code of conduct prohibits profanity, but doesn't provide a definition, spokeswoman Pat Crawford said. The school would not comment further.
Somewhere in the code of conduct, I imagine it also mentions that students caught cheating will be summarily executed. Let THAT be a lesson to you....
