CONCORD, N.H. -- The mother of a Concord middle school student is decrying the school district after her daughter was suspended due to a Facebook post.Kimberly Dell'isola said her daughter was suspended for five days after saying she wished Osama bin Laden killed her math teacher.While she agrees the post was offensive, Dell'isola said her daughter's free speech should be protected."In hindsight, she's mortified that she said that, but she's a 13-year-old kid," Dell'isola said.
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She said she frequently checks her daughter's Facebook page, but she hadn't logged on the day of the incident.Dell'isola said she didn't find out about the incident until she got a call from the school's principal.What Do You Think? Comment On Our Facebook PageShe said she agrees with the administrators at Rundlett Middle School that the post was wrong, but thinks the punishment is too harsh."You are denying her an education based on something she did at home. That's my business, not your business," Dell'isola said.She said that while her daughter's profile did have privacy settings on, a parent of one of her daughter's friends reported the post."They asked her to open her Facebook and she complied because she generally does what she's told," Dell'isola said.The mother holds that the issue is a parenting one, and not school related. She said she expressed that sentiment to Principal Tom Sica."He just said what she said was really awful. I started laughing and said I agree with you there, but how did it come to you deciding to throw her out of school," Dell'isola said.She said that while her daughter's suspension is over, she has not returned to class out of fear of facing the teacher she made the comment about.Dell'isola wants the school to remove her from the class and give her a private math tutor instead."She's anxious to go back and terrified to go back all at the same time," Dell'isola said.Sica said he could not comment about the incident because of student privacy rights.
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She said she frequently checks her daughter's Facebook page, but she hadn't logged on the day of the incident.Dell'isola said she didn't find out about the incident until she got a call from the school's principal.What Do You Think? Comment On Our Facebook PageShe said she agrees with the administrators at Rundlett Middle School that the post was wrong, but thinks the punishment is too harsh."You are denying her an education based on something she did at home. That's my business, not your business," Dell'isola said.She said that while her daughter's profile did have privacy settings on, a parent of one of her daughter's friends reported the post."They asked her to open her Facebook and she complied because she generally does what she's told," Dell'isola said.The mother holds that the issue is a parenting one, and not school related. She said she expressed that sentiment to Principal Tom Sica."He just said what she said was really awful. I started laughing and said I agree with you there, but how did it come to you deciding to throw her out of school," Dell'isola said.She said that while her daughter's suspension is over, she has not returned to class out of fear of facing the teacher she made the comment about.Dell'isola wants the school to remove her from the class and give her a private math tutor instead."She's anxious to go back and terrified to go back all at the same time," Dell'isola said.Sica said he could not comment about the incident because of student privacy rights.
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No one under 18 is allowed to have a Facebook account to begin with - parent should know better.
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