> By Ben Fenwick

> OKLAHOMA CITY (Reuters) - An Oklahoma high school suspended a

> 15-year-old student after accusing her of casting a magic spell that
> caused a

> teacher to become sick, lawyers for the student said on Friday.

> The American Civil Liberties Union said it had filed a lawsuit in U.S.
> District Court in Tulsa, Oklahoma, on

> behalf of student Brandi Blackbear, charging that the assistant
> principal of Union Intermediate High School in

> Broken Arrow, Oklahoma, suspended her for 15 days last December for
> supposedly casting a spell.

> The suit also charged the Tulsa-area Union Public Schools with
> repeatedly violating Blackbear's civil rights by

> seizing notebooks she used to write horror stories and barring her from
> drawing or wearing signs of the pagan

> religion Wicca.

> ``It's hard for me to believe that in the year 2000 I am walking into
> court to defend my daughter against charges

> of witchcraft brought by her own school,'' said Timothy Blackbear,
> Brandi's father. His daughter is now a 10th

> grader.

> Joann Bell, executive director of the ACLU's Oklahoma chapter, said the
> ``outlandish accusations'' had made

> Blackbear's life at school unbearable.

> ``I, for one, would like to see the so-called evidence this school has
> that a 15-year-old girl made a grown man

> sick by casting a magic spell,'' Bell said.

> A lawyer for the school district declined to comment.

> The lawsuit, filed on Thursday, alleges that Blackbear was summoned to
> the office of assistant principal Charlie

> Bushyhead last December after a teacher fell ill, and was questioned
> about her interest in Wicca.

> According to the lawsuit, Brandi Blackbear had read a library book about
> Wicca beliefs and, under aggressive

> interrogation by Bushyhead, said she might be a Wiccan. In fact,
> Blackbear is a Roman Catholic, according to

> the newspaper Tulsa World.

> ``The interview culminated with Defendant Bushyhead accusing Plaintiff,
> Brandi Blackbear, of casting spells

> causing (a teacher at the school) ... to be sick and to be
> hospitalized,'' the lawsuit said.

> The lawsuit stated that because of the ``unknown cause'' of the
> teacher's illness, Bushyhead advised the

> 15-year-old girl ''that she was an immediate threat to the school and
> summarily suspended her for what he

> arbitrarily determined to be a disruption of the education process.''

> Doug Mann, the school district's attorney, declined to comment, saying
> laws protecting the school records of

> juveniles barred him and the district from responding outside of court.

> ``It's totally unfair that we are gagged by federal and state law and
> they can say anything they want,'' Mann

> said. ``If the parents will sign a release for what's in the girl's
> files, we will talk about the true facts.''

> The lawsuit alleged Blackbear's civil rights also were violated when
> school officials prohibited her from wearing

> or drawing in school any symbols related to Wicca, a religion that dates
> back to pre-Christian nature worship.

> The ACLU is seeking an undisclosed amount of punitive and financial
> damages for Blackbear, a declaration

> that the school violated the girl's rights, an injunction preventing the
> school from banning the wearing of any

> non-Christian religious paraphernalia and an order expunging her school
> record.

> By Ben Fenwick

> OKLAHOMA CITY (Reuters) - An Oklahoma high school suspended a

> 15-year-old student after accusing her of casting a magic spell that
> caused a

> teacher to become sick, lawyers for the student said on Friday.

> î ¢hèëhûåhúå <c...@nonline.net> wrote in message
> news:39FFD32D.317B@nonline.net...
> > School Suspends Girl for Casting Spell

> > By Ben Fenwick

> > OKLAHOMA CITY (Reuters) - An Oklahoma high school suspended a

> > 15-year-old student after accusing her of casting a magic spell that
> > caused a

> > teacher to become sick, lawyers for the student said on Friday.

> One of the schools here banned the showing of Smurf cartoons a few
years ago
> and last year banned the "witchcraft" Pokemon game. At the same time
they're
> putting up signs bragging about their championship level football and
> basketball teams when everyone knows half the kids are using steroids
(by
> the admission of two of the atheletes).
> I despise these backwards bastards and am tempted to cast a spell of
> feeblemindedness on them. No, wait! It's already been done!
>  Bobby

> and doing that without opening fire on their fellow
> classmates

> > and doing that without opening fire on their fellow
> > classmates

> In America, more kids die each year from playing football in school
than
> they do from guns.

> i cheehuahua

> > > and doing that without opening fire on their fellow
> > > classmates

> > In America, more kids die each year from playing football in school
> than
> > they do from guns.

> > i cheehuahua

> I'm not saying that they don't. I knew people who were seriously
> injured from playing football. I'm just saying that I believe that they
> should quit focusing on the things like clothing and other similar
> insignificant things. I don't know if you heard this, but a few years
> ago I remember seeing on the news a story about a girl who was
> suspended from school for wearing black lipstick. She wasn't a trouble
> maker or anything. I guess she just wanted to make some kind of a
> fashion statement.I just think something like that is ridiculous.

> > much in favor of george bush's proposal to give parents an alternative
to
> public schools. we used to joke about how horseshit teachers were when i
> went to school. as a parent, it's one of the few things i see today as i
did
> then. seeing kids suspended for outrageous garbage, shows me where alot of
> teachers and principals priorities are. and it isn't with educating the
> kids, imo.

> gary

> This is the reason my daughter goes to private school and why I will vote
> for and strongly support Bush.

> -paul