<p>Just to be fair, stop telling him he should find other people to hang out with. He clearly said they were working on a project, and a no point referred to any of them as his ‘friends’ (only “the guy”, or “the girls”). So stop telling him to find better friends, or to use the fact that a friend wouldn’t do that to not believe it. They weren’t his friends. </p>
<p>And, yeah, get a lawyer.</p>
<p>The OP didn’t write the email and didn’t send it. (according to him) If this is true, one of the girls should be able to confirm it. Seems like the most culpable parties are the boy who did the writing and the girl who sent/published it. If the OP helped with the original text, egged on the writer, etc, there is more of a problem. I am not sure a lawyer is needed at this point, but maybe for some comfort… (I am a lawyer)</p>
<p>tell your parents the truth, the whole truth, the first time. You don’t want details you have withheld to come out later.
Likely they will want to get you a lawyer.</p>
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<p>I cannot post enough repetitions to be proportional to the seriousness of your circumstance. The other students may decide to throw you under the bus to save their a$$e$. That is what their lawyers are advising them to do. You are in strict survival mode. Act now, act effectively or you ae doomed!!!</p>
<p>“He typed it up, but he’s the kind of guy who always jokes about these things. He’s always swearing and making rude comments”</p>
<p>Mistake one was not letting the guy know long ago that such jokes were inappropriate.</p>
<p>Some people who have told such “jokes” have ended up doing some of the acts that your friend posted on the teacher’s website.</p>
<p>Unless you were teacher-assigned to a group with that guy, mistake 2 was hanging out with that guy.</p>
<p>I agree: TALK TO A LAWYER, and take the time to thoroughly examine and take responsibility for your own part in this mess so that you don’t ever get into this kind of situation again. </p>
<p>The teacher and school’s reaction is appropriate.</p>
<p>This IS Canada, a place that it a lot less litigious than the U.S., especially around school issues. “Get a lawyer” is good advice, but maybe the appropriate translation into Canadian is “get an advisor/advocate whose only interest is helping you, who is very knowledgeable and sophisticated about school disciplinary issues and related criminal law issues in your community, and who won’t rat you out if you tell something that looks bad”. There’s some chance that person isn’t a lawyer, but even in Canada it probably is.</p>
<p>I am realizing this week how much kids really DON’T THINK. With this being almost the end of the school year, some seniors do stupid “Senior Pranks” which involve doing things on or around the school campus. In some cases, the students find a way INTO the school after hours to pull a prank, such as with a few in my son’s class. My son WAS NOT involved (thankfully) but shows his youth when he defends his classmates with the defense of “it’s a PRANK…the teachers and principal EXPECT it”. My husband and I have clarified with no backing up to our son that vandalism and trespassing on school property (even IF “everyone knows which how to get in”) is not right. Going to school is a privilege, not a right. Vandalizing any location, and especially the school is breaking the law, not a right. Final transcripts to colleges will show disciplinary action in the last few weeks of school and it will reflect on renewable scholarships. Students need to realize that everything from grade records to stupid acts reflect on their records…for a very long time.</p>