WESLEY CHAPEL — A Tampa-area high school student says he was kicked out of the National Honor Society because he started a Facebook page critical of his school.
Fuentes, a senior, started the page three months ago. Titled “Wesley Chapel High (equal sign) Fail,” it became a popular venue for students to criticize the school. Fuentes said he was frustrated that he was going to graduate from a school that was lowly ranked because of poor standardized tests scores.
“It wasn’t anything malicious,” he said. “It was just a joke taken the wrong way.”
When he returned from winter break last month, a panel of teachers voted unanimously to dismiss him from the National Honor Society on the grounds he had not upheld a pledge to show loyalty to his school, Fuentes said.
The school’s principal, Carin Nettles, said she couldn’t talk specifically about Fuentes’ case.
Fuentes said he decided to transfer to a neighboring high school after discovering that three of his teachers were on the panel that voted to expel him from the honor society.
