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Florida School Bans Breastfeeding Mom From Campus

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NICEVILLE, Fla. (AP) — A 25-year-old Florida Panhandle woman was issued a trespass warning after a disagreement with an elementary school principal about the way she was breastfeeding her young daughter on campus.

The Northwest Florida Daily News (http://bit.ly/1smdcLc ) reports Meagan Shoemaker was at Plew Elementary School in Niceville on Wednesday for her niece's weekly fitness event.

Principal Carolyn McAllister talked to Shoemaker after receiving a complaint from another parent, asking her to use discretion. Shoemaker says she was being discreet, putting a barrier between herself and the students.

McAllister says Shoemaker became "belligerent" when she stopped by the office a short time later. Shoemaker says she wasn't hostile.

The principal and a resource officer gave her the trespassing warning which bars her from entering school grounds for the rest of the school year.