Report: Second Student Suspended For Distributing 'Inappropriate' Heavy Metal Flyer

December 17, 2003

Charles Crumm of The Daily Oakland Press is reporting that a second Michigan high school student has been suspended for distributing flyers at school promoting a local heavy metal band.

Ashley Vestrand, a senior at Oxford High School, was suspended when she showed up at school Monday (Dec. 15),her parents said.

"She asked about her constitutional rights of free speech, and they said on school grounds she has no constitutional rights," said her father, Joe Vestrand.

Another student was suspended Thursday (Dec. 11) for passing out flyers on behalf of the local band DRAHNER and was given a two-day suspension. Ashley's suspension is the same, allowing her to return to school Wednesday.

Ashley was quoted in a Saturday story in The Daily Oakland Press as saying that she also had passed out flyers for the band and saw nothing wrong with doing so.

School officials maintain the flyer is inappropriate. It shows a clothed woman sitting on a tongue in front of an open mouth promoting a concert at the end of the month.

School officials confirmed a second student was suspended but declined to say whether it was Vestrand.

"A second student was suspended because they broke the same rule as the first student," said Edie Paradowski, Oxford schools' communications director. "It has nothing to do with quotes in a newspaper story.

"Certainly if any other students have broken the same rules, we have to treat them all equally and fairly. These are the only two students we are aware of," Paradowski said. "In order for flyers to be posted in school, you have to have permission to do so."

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