Student suspended for saying "Bless You" after a student Sneezed

A Tennessee teen who said exactly that to a classmate after they sneezed says she was removed from her classroom and punished with in-school suspension on Monday. "She said that we're not going to have godly speaking in her class and that's when I said we have a constitutional right," Kendry Turner, a senior at Dyer County High School, told WMC after the recent controversy. Turner's parents said they met with school officials on Tuesday but were told that their daughter was punished because the comment was used in a distracting way after she shouted it across the room and then was combative with the teacher. Some of Turner's classmates showed their support of her by wearing handmade T-shirts to school that same day. They read: "bless you." "It's alright to defend God and it's our constitutional right because we have a freedom of religion and freedom of speech," said Turner. When Turner went to meet with school officials that same day, she says they agreed with her teacher. “The assistant principal said if I didn’t want to respect my teacher’s rules then maybe my pastor should teach me because my freedom (of) speech and religion does not work at their school,” Turner wrote on Facebook. According to a photo taken from inside Turner’s teacher’s classroom and submitted to WMC, “bless you” is just one of several expressions banned from being used in the classroom. The other words and expressions seen written on a white board are: "Stupid," "dumb," "boring," "stuff," "I don't know," "hang out," and "my bad."