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Home | Friday 17th October 2008 | Issue 651

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CRAP SCHOOL SUSPENSION OF THE WEEK

For having a beard and a gun...

A 17-year-old Muslim boy was suspended from Slough Grammar School recently after the headmaster Margaret Lenton saw a photo of him on the internet posing with his beard, headgear and a gun... Despite it er, actually being a paintballing gun � taken when he was, er, painballing � he was suspended from school and quizzed by police.

Although the police chose not to bang him up for no reason what-so-ever (which they could have), it took a campaign and petition by other pupils on Facebook before he was reinstated back at school.



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