I remeber going through the same sort of thing back when I was in High School (though I certainly didn't get expelled for anything). The reaction of the school is understanable from the information they recieved, that is, a story from one student who most likely left out certain facts. Because of things like Columbine, schools are taking what they call "no chances" on this issue. For example, the New York Times magazine published an article a couple of weeks ago about students being punished for this subject, and one of the items was a young child, around 5, being expelled for pointing a chicked finger at a fellow student and saying "Pow, Pow!" This of course means the end of Cowboys and Indians.
However, what the school did absolutely wrong was to act after hearing only one side of the story. Sean has said that he doesn't wish to go back to this place. Understandable. But his father should look at legal action against the school. This sort of thing, in a broad sense, has been happening nationwide, and parents have been winning in court against schoolboards. Good luck with whatever your decision is.
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I remeber going through the same sort of thing back when I was in High School (though I certainly didn't get expelled for anything). The reaction of the school is understanable from the information they recieved, that is, a story from one student who most likely left out certain facts. Because of things like Columbine, schools are taking what they call "no chances" on this issue. For example, the New York Times magazine published an article a couple of weeks ago about students being punished for this subject, and one of the items was a young child, around 5, being expelled for pointing a chicked finger at a fellow student and saying "Pow, Pow!" This of course means the end of Cowboys and Indians. However, what the school did absolutely wrong was to act after hearing only one side of the story. Sean has said that he doesn't wish to go back to this place. Understandable. But his father should look at legal action against the school. This sort of thing, in a broad sense, has been happening nationwide, and parents have been winning in court against schoolboards. Good luck with whatever your decision is.