The American Civil Liberties Union and the ACLU of New Mexico filed a lawsuit last week behalf of Shantelle Hicks, 15, who was initially kicked out of middle school and then publicly humiliated at an assembly by the school director because she was pregnant.

"It was so embarrassing to have all the other kids staring at me as I walked into the gymnasium," Hicks said in a statement released by the ACLU. "I didn’t want the whole school to know I was pregnant because it’s not their business, and it wasn’t right for my teachers to single me out."