"Favorited" tweet gets Hartsville High school student suspended, she says

[The Straight Story]

"Favorited" tweet gets Hartsville High school student suspended, she says

HARTSVILLE, S.C. -

Millions of people log onto Twitter and other social media accounts daily. Sending out status updates and maybe even a Retweet.

However, one click of the "Favorite" button landed Demi Grant, a Senior at Hartsville High School in hot water. Her mother feels like she's being singled out.

"Five days suspension for favoriting a tweet? Wasn't her words, it was no name in the tweet. She was bullying according to the school district, but I don't know who she bullied," said Stephanie Grant, Demi's mother.

The twitter page "HS Confession SC" attracts students from across the state.

Whether the tweets are true or false, it provides details of what could happen away from the classroom at South Carolina's high schools.

"I favorited all of them because I just thought they were funny. I didn't favorited because they were true. I just favorited them because I thought they were funny," explained Demi.

http://www.wbtw.com/story/24676559/favorited-tweet-gets-hartsville-high-school-student-suspended

[pipoman]

1. Some things dumb kids think are "funny"

Are cruel, painful, and dehumanizing to others. It is hard to tell, without seeing what she was "liking".

[SomethingFishy]

3. Yeah, the article makes no mention of what actually happened..

But if the principle called them into a room and told them they made him sick there must be some reasoning behind this.

[Ohio Joe]

2. 'I just thought it was funny to torment other kids'

Just as bad is this kids mother who supports her being a bully.

[WinkyDink]

4. I am 100% opposed to schools' invading and/or punishing student communications that are non-risk.

NO EXCEPTIONS for me.

I was a high school teacher.

[RC]

5. There is something very wrong with the administration at that high school.

This girl should not have been singled out. High school should not be prison. Maybe that principal needs to look into employment at a correctional institution.

What should have been done, assuming that there really was a problem in the first place, was a word to the wise or general warning to everyone about those tweets and why there was supposedly something wrong with them. The way I read this, the principal was doing the bullying, not some girl who "Favorited" some tweets.