FORT PIERCE, Fla. -- A Florida elementary student was suspended from school after she recorded audio of a teacher taunting a student during class.
Brianna Cooper, a fifth-grader at Fort Pierce Elementary School, recorded her teacher telling a classmate, "Don't let the size fool you. I will drop you."
Later in the recording, the teacher can be heard telling the student, "..biggest kid in the fifth grade and you acting like the smallest one."
Cooper turned over the audio to school officials and the teacher was later fired, according to WPTV. However, Brianna was suspended from school for five days because the recording was "illegal."
The school determined she obtained the recording illegally because it was made without the teacher's knowledge and violated the teacher's expectation of privacy.
The Florida law states:
While school administrators say the teacher had an expectation of privacy, Brianna's mom says this is not the case in a room full of students.
Brianna's mother has asked the school to rescind the suspension and have it permanently removed from record.
The school issued a statement on the teacher:
The school has not commented on the suspension of the student.