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A senior at a small upstate New York school earned an in-school suspension on her very first day back for carrying a cup of coffee, and her challenge to the rule exposed a transparency failure the district now admits it needs to fix. Julie Kaputa showed up to Beaver River Central School in Beaver Falls, […] The post New York high schooler suspended on first day of school for bringing a cup of coffee appeared first on American Almanac .
A senior at a small upstate New York school earned an in-school suspension on her very first day back for carrying a cup of coffee, and her challenge to the rule exposed a transparency failure the district now admits it needs to fix. Julie Kaputa showed up to Beaver River Central School in Beaver Falls, New York, on September 3 ready to start her senior year. She brought coffee. A staff member told her to finish it or throw it out. Kaputa refused and walked to the main office instead. The school handed her an in-school suspension for violating a brand-new policy banning outside food and drinks. It was the first day the rule existed in practice, and Kaputa was already on the wrong side of it. But what happened next turned a minor…Open