PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A distraught high school student asked school officials for help when another student videotaped him having sex on a school trip to Morocco but was instead suspended over the off-campus behavior, according to a federal lawsuit filed in Philadelphia.
Anders Hemdal, 16, accuses the Schuylkill Valley School District of unfairly suspending him for “disorderly conduct,” when he said the sexual activity with his girlfriend of two years, a fellow student, was consensual and legal.
Rules for the Spanish Club trip to Spain and Morocco in April said students would be sent home — not suspended — if they engaged in sexual activity and other proscribed behavior, according to a document attached to the lawsuit. And the student code of conduct prohibits sexual activity only on campus.
Hemdal wants the four-day suspension removed from his academic record and seeks more than $75,000 in damages.
- Posted October 24, 2012
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