Only in America: Too sexy for school
A Colorado school suspends a 6-year-old for reciting the LMFAO lyric "I'm sexy and I know it" — and more in our collection of strange revelations about the nation

A 6-year-old Colorado boy was suspended from school for reciting the rap lyric "I'm sexy and I know it" to a female classmate. "Sexy and I Know It," by LMFAO (pictured), recently topped the national charts, but school officials said first-grader D'Avorite Meadows committed sexual harassment by quoting its chorus. "I'm floored," said his mom.
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