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"  A senior at Mundy Mill&amp;#039;s High School in Clayton County, Georgia, stirred up a lot of controversy this week over a small joke she stealthily included in her senior yearbook quote. Senior class vice president Paris Gray decided to make her yearbook quote a ~joke~ by writing, &amp;quot;When the going gets tough just remember to Barium Carbon Potassium Thorium Astatine Arsenic Sulfur Uranium Phosphorus.&amp;quot; If you&amp;#039;re not a science whiz like Paris, the elements&amp;#039; abbreviations translate to: Ba+C+K Th+At As+S U+p. (Bonus points for *creativity*.) Unfortunately, Paris&amp;#039;s school wasn&amp;#039;t as amused. After discovering what her periodic table code words really meant, they threatened to take away her senior year glory. Paris was given an in-school suspension, banned from participating in her senior walk, and then told she wouldn&amp;#039;t be able to give her scheduled inspirational speech at graduation. That&amp;#039;s when she decided to fight back. &amp;quot;I think their reaction was beyond what it should have been because nobody understood it,&amp;quot; Paris told her local news station WSB-TV. &amp;quot;Basically, it was me just saying start all over again. You have to go back and start all over.&amp;quot; After Paris met with school administrators, they decided to let her give her speech, challenging her to give &amp;quot;the best speech ever.&amp;quot; Fingers crossed she gives her entire speech in periodic table elements. Now that would be hilarious. (h/t Buzzfeed) Photo credit: Getty Images; WSB-TV Via Seventeen "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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