A New Jersey middle school student was suspended for allegedly making gun motions with a pen.
According to The Huffington Post, Ethan Chaplin, a seventh grader at Glen Meadow Middle School in Vernon, NJ, was suspended for two days for pointing his gun like a pencil in one of his classes, however, the teenager claims he was simply twirling the writing utensil about.
Chaplin claims while he was spinning his pencil, a student behind him shouted, “He’s making gun motions, send him to juvie.”
Chaplin also asserts that the boy who shouted this had been bullying him earlier in the day.
Vernon Schools Superintendent Charles Maranzano denied Chaplin’s supposed suspension and told the student he could return to school after taking part in psychological evaluation, which would clear him and prove that he is not a threat to others.
According to News 12 New Jersey, Maranzano said that under school policy and law he is responsible to investigate any individual who makes students uncomfortable.
Ethan Chaplin’s father, Michael Chaplin was furious about the treatment his son received and called Ethan’s suspension, “gross misconduct at its finest”, and outlined what his son went through during his five hour psychological evaluation.
"The child was stripped, had to give blood samples (which caused him to pass out) and urine samples for of all things drug testing. Then four hours later a social worker spoke to him for five minutes and cleared him. Then an actual doctor came in and said the state was 100 percent incorrect in their procedure and this would not get him back in school,” Michael Chaplin told InfoWars.
Ethan Chaplin has been allowed to return to school.