CLAYTON COUNTY, Ga. (PIX11) – A Georgia high school student has already been suspended and is now facing a graduation-ceremony ban for her clever chemistry quote in the senior yearbook.

“When the going gets tough just remember to Barium, Carbon, Potassium, Thorium, Astatine, Arsenic, Sulfur, Uranium, Phosphorus,” wrote Paris Gray, who is senior class vice president, a member of Students Against Destructive Decisions and the Beta Club, according to WSB-TV.

Despite getting approval from the yearbook editor, Paris was given an in-school suspension and may be banned from the graduation ceremony after administrators spelled out the periodic elements from her quote. Taken together, her entire quote reads, “When the going gets tough, just remember to back that a** up.”

“My first reaction was, you are such a nerd,” Gray’s mother said.

Gray herself was miffed by the punishment, saying, “I think their reaction was beyond what it should have been because nobody understood it.”

Gray has already been kept out of the senior walk, and has been told her planned graduation ceremony speech has been canceled.

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