Student Suspended for Speaking Spanish

A high school student in Kansas City was suspended for 1.5 days for speaking Spanish in the hall. The principal was unable to produce any written policy restricting language use when asked by the boy's father, and the suspension was subsequently rescinded by the school district. Apparently this happened more than a week ago, but it hasn't made the national news until recently. Read the article here.

This article mentions English-only laws that forbid bilingual education, but it is unclear whether or not this applied to this school or school district. Regardless, such laws would restrict the language of instruction and mostly likely not be able to cover students' private conversations.

This principal sounds like a idiot, and the boy should have a strong civil rights case. I can't believe we have people like this running schools. How do we raise self-reflexive and progressive kids when we got utterly unqualified people teaching them. Freakin' annoying.