Senior Banned From Graduation For Making a (Clever) Science Joke in Yearbook

(Before It's News)

I remember the days when making science jokes would elicit groans not school suspensions.

A senior class vice-president is facing a ban on attending her graduation ceremony because she use the periodic table to spell out “Back that ass up” as her yearbook quote. It was clever enough for the school administration not to catch it before the yearbook was published, but apparently someone must have clued them in.

The full quote reads: “When the going gets tough just remember to Barium, Carbon, Potassium, Thorium, Astatine, Arsenic, Sulfur, Uranium, Phosphorus.” If you remember your high school science, the chemical symbol of each of those elements spells out “back that ass up.”

It’s a cute joke. One that 90% of people probably wouldn’t even notice, but school administrators weren’t laughing.

Now, Paris Gray, a student at Mundy’s Mill High School in Georgia won’t be able to attend the ceremony nor give the speech she had planned to give.

“I think their reaction was beyond what it should have been because nobody understood it,” Gray said. “It just completely destroyed me, and my mom’s been telling me don’t let it ruin my happiness but it’s like really taking a big toll.”[source]

Paris says that it wasn’t meant to be vulgar. Instead she just wanted a funny way to teach a life lesson.

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