School officials were well within their rights when they suspended a 10-year-old boy who wrote his wish was to “Blow up the school with the teachers in it,” during a drawing assignment, a federal appeals court ruled Thursday.
A split panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit said a First Amendment lawsuit brought by the parents of the fifth grader suspended in 2007 for six days by the Valley Central School District was rightfully dismissed because of the latitude given officials to prevent disruption in the schools. The incident occurred at Berea Elementary School in Montgomery, N.Y.
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