Judge rules against Virginia private school that suspended student for waiting to report classmate with bullet

A judge in Virginia called it “appalling” that a school decided to suspend a sixth-grader for not more quickly reporting that his classmate brought a bullet to class after the boy waited until his test was over.

Judge Vivian Henderson of Virginia Beach ruled in favor of Rachel Wigand, the suspended child’s mother, in her lawsuit against St. John the Apostle Catholic School. Wigand claimed that the private school violated its contract by suspending her son for a day and a half in September.