High school senior Paris Gray makes a chemistry joke in her yearbook and gets banned from her graduation
Can you remember the periodic table?
Paris Gray, a high school senior in Georgia, certainly can. However, her extensive knowledge of the elements almost got her banned from participating in her school’s graduation ceremonies.
In her yearbook quote she wrote: ‘When the going gets tough, just remember to Barium, Carbon, Potassium, Thorium, Astatine, Arsenic, Sulfur, Uranium, Phosphorus.’
For the less scientifically inclined, the periodic symbols for the elements listed spell out ‘Back That Ass Up.’
School administrators noticed the pun and subsequently banned Paris from participating in the graduation ceremony, where she was scheduled to give a speech to the rest of her class.
Since the story broke her fellow students have used Twitter to protest the suspension.
Following the media attention, Paris and her family met with her school principal and the area superintendent who elected to lift the suspension and allow her to participate.
As for her mother’s opinion of the joke? ‘My first reaction was, you are such a nerd.’
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