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|  Fla. student who mooned teacher sues
Associated Press
CLEARWATER, Fla. - A high school senior acknowledges he went too far when he mooned a teacher. But he thinks the decision of school officials to send him to a new school for the rest of the year was too harsh, so his family is suing.
Tyler Tillung, 18, mooned a teacher "suddenly and without thinking about the consequences" in February, according to the lawsuit filed Tuesday. The teacher had declined to let him into a Feb. 21 school lip sync show that was full. He was suspended for six days and reassigned to a new school.
But the teen wants to graduate with his Palm Harbor University High class in six weeks and complete his final season on the varsity baseball team, the lawsuit said.
"We're talking about his graduation," said Tillung's lawyer, B. Edwin Johnson. "That's an important event in a guy's life. ... This kid deserves a break."
School Board Attorney Jim Robinson said administrators stand by their decision.
"Without knowing the allegations, we're confident in the administration's position on this case," Robinson said. Palm Harbor principal Herman "Doc" Allen described the mooning as "disgusting" and the teacher as "traumatized."
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1.  filmbuff (1336)
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5 years ago
| |  I think the punishment is going a little too far. Kids will be kids and boys will be boys. Twenty or thrity years ago he would have gotten a slap on the wrist as this is a just a minor bit of mischief and one could argue that he was merely exercising his first amendment right to free speech. (hahaha)
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| 2. kgwat70 (10233)
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5 years ago
| |  I do think this punishment was too harsh for this type of incident. I think a week of detention would be more suitable or just a suspension, without the new school, than sending him to another school. I do not think the family will win their court case against the school though. It is a disgusting act but there worse things that the student could have done.
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3.  visitorinvasion (3623)
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5 years ago
| |  Traumatized the teacher eh?
Gimme a break.
Teachers are supposed to be grown, and if there's a grown person who has never before seen butt cheeks, they are the ones others should be afraid of. That's crazy.
Traumatized...puh-lease!
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5.  mndygrl78 (1590)
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5 years ago
| |  WAY too harsh. Cmon, most of us have done something along those lines when we were kids. A suspension, yes. But that? Yeah, well let the bullies who beat our kids up get detention, but a kid who moons the teacher, now thats severe...and traumatized? COME ON lady! she needs to get a grip.
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| 6. visitorinvasion (3623)
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5 years ago
| | Wanna hear harsh?
I just heard on the radio yesterday that a public elementary school in New York somewhere had a child arrested for writing on the desk?
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