Student Sarcastically Tweets About Hooking Up With His Teacher, Gets Thrown Out of School

Asked by an anonymous tweeter
if the rumors that he had been seen making out with a teacher were
true, square-jawed Minnesota senior Reid Sagehorn, made the fateful
decision to reply with a touch of sarcasm.

“Actually, yes,” he tweeted.

Cue a deeply ridiculous cascade of events that resulted in the
17-year-old scholar-athlete hero guy getting
booted from school after a busybody parent saw the
exchanged, missed the joke, and reported it to administrators.

Sagehorn’s suspension, which would last through April 22, is a
pretty tough sentence for failed attempt at humor. The
Change.org petition (which currently has just over 4,000
signatures) started to advocate for lifting the sentence explains
it this way:

This excessive punishment would prevent him from finishing his
final basketball season and would also preclude him from playing
baseball his senior year.  In addition, Reid has been removed
from National Honor Society and has been barred from stepping on
school grounds or attending school-sponsored events.  Reid
will be unable to attend the state DECA conference and will miss
out on countless other school-related activities….

Because of this, the only reasonable response to this discipline
would be for Reid to leave the district and enroll elsewhere.
 The ten-week punishment is, in effect, an
expulsion. 

There’s no evidence of any student-teacher hanky panky besides
the allegation from that now-deleted anonymous tweet,
as far as local media has been able to tell:

Officials have so far been tight-lipped about why they thought
it appropriate to suspend Sagehorn for so long, and voicemails left
with the Rogers High School principal and the district
superintendent hadn’t been returned.

But what Twitter taketh away, Twitter also giveth: The #freereid
hashtag has taken off, serving as a rallying point for Sagehorn’s
supporters, who plan to
show up at a school board meeting tonight to plead his
case.