"...An American Hero."

An 11-year-old Los Angeles girl has been suspended from her school for doing cartwheels. Cartwheels?

Apparently, Deirdre Faegre had been repeatedly asked to stop her child-like behavior out of safety concerns for the other children, the principal claimed.

Patton said Deirdre could accidentally strike another student, or injure herself, and other children could get hurt trying to imitate Deirdre, who has been doing gymnastics for five years.

Faegre's father, in a wonderful display of parental logic, argued that it made little sense that other sports were allowed, but his daughter's flip-floppery was not.

"Contact sports, apparently, are fine. But this one is so dangerous it requires the cartwheel cops," Faegre said.

Of course, we all know that cartwheels are just a gateway activity to harder actions, such round-offs.

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[tiff12ful]

I go to that school lol true my school sucks hell!!!there's always drama !!

[lfaegre]

@tiff12ful Get what you can out of it as your parents are paying for it through their taxes; until other academic options can be arranged...

[GymnastMonkeyGirl]

Big Wow!

[lfaegre]

Yeah! The Biggest Wow!

[13slipknotmaggot]

I go to san jose edison academy.

Believe me it is the GAYEST MOST FUCKED UO SCHOOL EVER!!

it suks ass

[jobroluv31]

i go to this school

[gymshiv]

really? oh, i didn't/haven't heard anything...

[lfaegre]

The story came to me because my daughter's story [which went around the world and was translated into foreign languages] was cited in the Australian episode which unfolded in an identical fashion.

My daughter and I were both interviewed for the Australian story last year and I read about it in one of your 'page three' tabloids so I know it was published there...

[gymshiv]

what happened? i'm in the uk so i've heard nothing...

[lfaegre]

History repeated itself in Australia last year.  Virtually the same story of tyrants denying a child happiness. Kylie Bushgens is her name--I am sure you heard about it if I did here in the States...