Subscribe | UPI Odd Newsletter Subscribe INDIANAPOLIS, March 22 (UPI) -- An Indiana school district will pay $69,000 to three of four high school students it expelled for their film in which evil teddy bears threaten a teacher. The three Knightstown High School sophomores, who were readmitted to school in January under a federal judge's order, will split the money, the Indianapolis Star reported. Advertisement The school district on Tuesday approved the $69,000 settlement and agreed to remove the boys' expulsion from their records, ending a federal First Amendment lawsuit brought by the teenagers when they were expelled in January, the Star reported. A fourth boy didn't take part in the lawsuit, although he, too, was readmitted to school. The boys were expelled over the film they called "The Teddy Bear Master," which they described as a parody of a horror movie which they made off school grounds. District officials said it made threats against a teacher character who had the same name as a middle school teacher in the district. Before she ruled in their favor in December, U.S. District Judge Sarah Evans Barker described "The Teddy Bear Master" as "humiliating" and "obscene," the Star reported. Advertisement
