VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. ( WAVY ) — An 11-year-old boy who alerted his principal after another student brought a bullet to class is in trouble at the school.
His family said he’s being punished by St. John the Apostle School in Virginia Beach for speaking up and doing the right thing, and they’re upset because the reporting student received the same two-day suspension as the student who had the bullet.
The family also thinks the adults involved at St. John the Apostle School in Virginia Beach need to have, in their words, “an ounce of grace” in dealing with an 11-year-old child who was only trying to do the right thing.
The boy saw the bullet, but he was about to begin mandatory testing, so he waited to alert someone until the testing was over, which was about two hours.
“We teach our children, ‘see something say something’ but that means ‘see something, say something’ when it is safe,” said the family’s attorney, Tim Anderson.
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“He doesn’t want retaliation or people to dislike him, so he is going to do it anonymously,” said the reporting child’s mother, Rachel Wigand.