Suspension for speaking Spanish draws new student plaintiffs

Posted on: December 14th, 2005
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“An attorney representing a 16-year-old student who was suspended for speaking in Spanish at a Kansas school says two other parents have told him their children were sent home for the same infraction.

The father of Zachariah Rubio filed a federal lawsuit Monday against the Turner Unified School District, the principal of Endeavor Alternative School, and six teachers, claiming his son’s civil rights were violated when he was suspended Nov. 28 for speaking Spanish in a school hallway….”

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