According to Fox 13 in Salt Lake City, two students are now facing a trial hearing and are suspended for ten days from Bristol-Plymouth Technical School in Taunton, Massachusetts, because a picture was posted to their Facebook. The report said the students are facing expulsion because their homecoming picture was with an airsoft gun.

Tito Velez and his girlfriend Jamie Pereira posted a photo of the two standing together Velez said they wanted their picture to be unique and use something other than flowers.  School officials said in the report that the picture caused a disruption when people started talking about it on the following Monday. They said the suspension was for tying the photo to one of their school event and knowing it was provocative.

Suspending students for ten days and having them face possible expulsion is unconstitutional. These two students were just posting a picture for uniqueness, and they end up getting suspended. The air rifles are known to just have pellets inside. They weren’t pointing the gun into the camera nor did they even take it out of the house.

Schools are taking rules way too far. Slowly but surely, they will take our rights away completely. One could see making them take the picture down or even changing the caption but suspending them? And having them face expulsion? That’s taking things way too far and blowing them out of proportion.

Now if the students had said something about bringing the gun to school or potentially hurting someone with the gun, that would be different, but they were simply posing for a picture. Because this happened outside of school hours, the school is totally invading privacy. It’s not fair to those kids.