- The principal calls it "very, very serious" wrongdoing.
This was his punishment for appearing in the background of a friend's video in which said friend held a disabled airsoft gun.
The eighth grader also posed for a photo with the friend, who held him in a headlock with the fake gun pointing at his head.
The picture was shared with 13 other friends on Snapchat....On Monday his dad—David Bernstein, a nonprofit director—wrote a piece about the incident for The Washington Post.
He said he had asked the private Silver Spring school to reconsider the punishment.
- After all, his son did not threaten anyone with a gun.
- He did not own a gun.
- He did not say anything about wanting to kill students, or take his own life, or do anything violent. He was, his dad wrote, just being a "knucklehead."
AND THIS!!
...Bernstein added that this was not the first time he was dismayed by the administration's take on things.
"I first realized something was amiss at the school when I received a call earlier in the year about another 'very serious' incident," said Bernstein.
"My son had told a friend that he observed a teacher texting while driving.
He was then hauled into the principal's office and asked to apologize to the teacher, which he only did reluctantly.
'The teacher was very hurt,' the principal stated. 'And [your son] didn't seem to care.'
Confused about the 'crime,' I asked the principal what if my son was telling the truth.
'That's beside the point,' she said.
'He violated our community values by hurting the teacher's feelings.'"
You don't have to be John Grisham to sense something is a little off here.."
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