DULUTH, Ga., Dec. 18 (UPI) -- An Atlanta-area woman says she is appealing her son's expulsion from high school for hugging a teacher.
April McNair told WSB-TV, Atlanta, that her teenage son's future will be ruined if he is expelled from Duluth High School in Gwinnett County. Sam McNair, a football player at Duluth, had been hoping for an athletic scholarship to college.
"We're not in a financial position to put him in a private school. If he's expelled from Gwinnett County, no other county is going to want to accept (him) in school. So you are derailing his future for him," April McNair said in a report broadcast Tuesday.
The teacher filed a sexual harassment complaint against Sam, 17. He says he hugged her several times in the past and believes that if she had a problem with it she should have talked to him or his parents before filing the complaint.
Both mother and son said their family hugs a lot.
