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N.C. high school, teen at odds over nose ring

By By The Associated Press

RALEIGH, N.C. — A soft-spoken 14-year-old?s nose piercing has landed her a suspension from school and forced her into the middle of a fight over her First Amendment right to exercise her religion. Ariana Iacono says she just wants to be a normal teenager at Clayton High School, about 15 miles southeast of Raleigh. She has been suspended since last week because her nose ring violates the Johnston County school system?s dress code. ?I think it?s kind of stupid for them to kick me out of schoo read more

Full post as published by First Amendment Center: Religious Liberty on September 15, 2010 (boomark / email).