First-Grader Suspended Over Yearbook Comment

[Kadie]

May 18, 2010 2:11 pm US/Pacific

First-Grader Suspended Over Yearbook Comment

YUBA CITY (CBS13) ― A first-grader from Yuba City has been suspended from school for a day after scratching out a picture and writing a comment in her own yearbook.

Natalie Day did not go to school today after she was suspended for "disruption". The suspension paper says she scratched off the picture of a classmate in her own yearbook and wrote the classmate's name next to it and "because she is rude."

Natalie's mother, Crystal Ledger says her daughter has been bullied by the classmate all year, but admits that Natalie had once told the girl she would beat her up. Crystal says she even asked that her daughter be moved to another class.

The superintendent of Yuba City Unified School District says there are other elements to the situation, but would not elaborate. She says other "relevant information" may not have been on the suspension form but may have been verbally told to Natalie's parents.

Crystal says that is not true.

http://cbs13.com/local/elementary.yearbook.suspension.2.1701542.html