Student suspended after she takes photo of school's dirty water

Student suspended after she takes photo of school's dirty water

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WESTLAND, Mi. (CNN) — When Hazel Juco noticed the water in her high school restroom looked like urine, she snapped a photo and posted it on Facebook and Twitter.

The next day, the senior at John Glenn High School in Westland, Michigan, was suspended.

"She told me I was being suspended for three days. It's inappropriate use of electronics in the restroom," Hazel said, recounting the conversation with the assistant principal to CNN affiliate WXYZ.

"Everyone in my school — every girl takes selfies in the bathroom and makes it their profile picture on Twitter or Facebook or whatever and no one has gotten in trouble."

The school, like many around the nation, has a rule that prohibits the use of cell phones inside restrooms to respect the privacy of others.

But parents and students were outraged. They thought the school ought to be more concerned about the water than the phone rule.

In response, dozens of students posted pictures taken of themselves in the school bathroom.

When Wayne-Westland Community Schools superintendent, Dr. Michele Harmala got wind of the uproar, she rescinded Hazel's punishment.

The rule, she told the affiliate, was designed to protect inappropriate photos of students; not maintenance issues.

She also discovered the school hadn't reported the water issue to maintenance.

"I reached out to them. They sent a plumber out right away," Harmala said. "We had a pipe that reached the faucet that was corroding and needs to be replaced and that's underway right now."

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