A California teenager who called his teacher a "fat ass" on Facebook has avoided punishment from his high school, thanks to the ACLU. In December, 10th-grader Donny Dunlap received an unusually large amount of homework from his biology teacher, so he decided to vent about it on Facebook. In a status update, the teen announced that the teacher is a "fat ass who should stop eating fast food, and is a douche bag." A fellow student saw the status, and brought it to the attention of the school's principal. The vice principal contacted Donny at home, asked him to remove the status, and to personally apologize to the biology teacher. The 15-year-old complied, but the saga didn't end there. Later on in the day, Dunlap was called into the principal's office, and informed that he would be suspended for one day for cyberbullying. And that's where the ACLU got involved.
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