Fort Pierce 5th-grader suspended after recording teacher's taunt

Fort Pierce 5th-grader suspended after recording teacher's taunt - WSVN-TV - 7NEWS Miami Ft. Lauderdale News, Weather, Deco:
"FORT PIERCE, Fla. (WSVN) -- A Florida student and her parents say she received an unfair punishment for doing the right thing.
Eleven-year-old Brianna Cooper, a fifth-grader at Fort Pierce Elementary School, said her teacher had been mean to students in the past and she wanted to prove it.
Inside her classroom, Brianna recorded the instructor saying to a classmate, "Don't let the size fool you. I will drop you."
In another part of the recording the teacher is heard belittling another student.
"Biggest kid in the fifth grade and you acting like the smallest one," she is heard saying.
"I thought I did the right thing," said Brianna.
Her video led to the firing of that teacher. 
"I do think it's a good thing that this teacher is gone," said Kassie Faulkner, the girl's mother.
Faulkner said, regardless of exposing a classroom problem, her daughter is still suspended from school because of a policy regarding recording audio illegally. 
"I still don't believe she should be suspended," she said.
It is illegal to record somebody without their knowledge if there's an expectation of privacy.