Student claims her “bless you” caused suspension
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On the website momdot.com, Kendra Turner tells her side of the story in which she said “bless you” to a student in keyboarding class, after the student sneezed.
According to Turner, who is a senior, she was reprimanded by the teacher, who said, “We will not have Godly speaking in my class.”
Turner said she then told the teacher that her pastor said she had a “Constitutional right…First Amendment Freedom of Speech.”
Turner said she was sent to the office and suspended from the keyboarding class.
While the Dyer County Schools superintendent has not commented on the alleged incident, we were told there is a strict policy in the keyboarding classroom against “outbursts,” including saying “bless you” when someone sneezes.
We’re told the policy is in place to assure students are not distracted, especially during tests.
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