Son suspended for 5 days from school for posting that there was a threat of a shooter in his school on snapchat.

Since the snap was deleted there is no evidence of it being sent or made.

Sure there is. First, there could be screenshots. Second, testimony is evidence. Your son admitted he made the tweet, other people admit they saw the tweet.

This is going to come down to school policy and probably not any legal issue. In recent years parents have become more and more upset about schools canceling days because of threats, since there are so many threats and they go largely solved before school even begins. (The recent school closures in Denver due to threats that had been dealt with made many parents irate.)

So much of this is political, not legal. You may hire an attorney to go with you, and the superintendent may decide not to meet with you. Or he or she might back down.

Were you given the reason for his suspension, the exact rule he broke? Schools these days love zero-tolerance policies. They may have a policy that students are not to mention guns, or school shooters, or whatever on social media. We can debate the efficacy of such policies but if violated a known policy, then the suspension makes sense. So no one can really answer if the school had grounds for the suspension if it has not been articulated what rule was broke and/or what he did wrong, other than "he sent a snap we didn't like." That information is important, but likely this isn't a legal issue but a school district policy issue.

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