Virginia Beach, Virginia, the judge said that it was “terrible” that a school suspended the 6th grader to wait long to report that another student had a bullet in the classroom.
The judge on Monday ruled in favor of the child’s mother, Rachel Vigand, when he sued the St. John the Appostal Catholic School to break his contract, when the administrators suspended their son for a day and a half in September.
The child, who was identified in the trial, received the same suspension in the form of AW, who was allegedly brought to the orbit.
“A suspension is permanent on the educational record of a child. When you are nomination of children in later educational places, they ask you the question: Have your child ever suspended? What happened to his child,” what happened to his child, “what happened,” said Attorney Tim Anderson, who represented Vigand.
“It was not appropriate that the mother had to answer that question, yes, for the rest of this child’s academic career,” he said.
The child was in the classroom, preparing to take a standardized exam, when another student took out a bullet and showed it. Anderson first told NBC News that the child conducted a test, who lasted for about one and a half hours, went to the second grade, and then told the principal.
Anderson said there were about two hours between the child watching the bullet and warning the principal. According to Anderson, school administrators called the police, and the officials were shot in the student’s bag.
Judge Vivian Henderson stated that the child was punished for trying to do the right thing, “For this court, for the lack of a better word, was horrific.”
“Especially in an environment where … small and young children are being forced to make decisions like obvious boundaries or parameters,” Henderson said in a Monday hearing recorded by Anderson to NBC News.
He said “unfortunate hunting in this case” was the son of Vigand.
A lawyer for the school said to shut down the argument that it has been written in the school’s handbook and in the tuition contract that St. John the Aptal had the right to “or less serious form of discipline”. The lawyer also argued that the school has been emphasized that security incidents need to be reported immediately.
Attorney said that the decision to send Vigand’s son home was “clearly coming back on that lesson and ‘he was trying to learn a lesson, which is why it is important.’
Anderson said that the school may keep the child in custody or take another type of in-school disciplinary action.
Catholic Suba of Richmond said that it disagrees with the decision of the court, it respects the legal process.
In a statement, a spokesperson said in a statement, “Our focus provides rich and Christ-centered learning experiences for our students, and we hope that this conclusion will bring an opportunity to all parties to move forward.”
Vigand first told NBC News that his son wanted to remain anonymous while reporting the incident, but the school was suspended.
Anderson said the child has been harassed since the incident on Tuesday, and Vigand planned to enroll him and his other children in a new school.
