High School Senior Expelled For Swearing in Tweet [VIDEO]

If you’re in high school and you post a tweet (from home) that’s full of f-bombs should you be expelled from school? That’s the question at the heart of this controversy, but the details will surprise you.

Austin Carroll is a high school senior finishing out the year at a new school because he was expelled from Garret High School in Indiana for posting a tweet that went something like this: “Blank is one of those blanking words you can blanking put anywhere in a blanking sentence and it still blanking makes sense.”

The tweet was posted on his personal twitter account, which is not associated with the school.

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