Pagan Student Suspended

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A 16 yr old girl in Indiana has been suspended from school for 2 days because she wrote pentagrams on her face. They're small, 3 on each side, starting at the outer corner of her eye & then going down her cheek a little. The website doesn't have the photos but there are photos in today's Post Tribune. The school says they're a distraction and have nothing to do with religion and that she isn't to return to school until she washes them off her face. Yeah I have a problem with that statement. http://www.post-trib.com/news/368973,pentagram.article The student says she's celebrating Beltane and that she felt she had to wear them on her face so the school couldn't take them away. She claims the school has taken away her pentacle in the past. Her parents, who are Druids, state their daughter wearing the pentacle on her face is similar to students wearing ashes on their forehead for Ash Wednesday. My own personal observations are: I can see where having 3 pentacles on each side of her face could be distracting. The school could have simply asked her to tone it down rather than suspend her. What's wrong with one small one? The article states the student used mascara to draw the pentacles on. For crying out loud, someone buy the girl a waterproof eyeliner pencil or some liquid eyeliner!