A grade 12 student has been sent home from a Brampton high school after he submitted a creative writing assignment where a teacher was bludgeoned to death with a baseball bat.
Brendan Jones has been sent home while administrators at Heart Lake Secondary School review whether or not the assignment was appropriate.
Jones and his father Ron told CTV Toronto they think it might have been a poor subject matter for a school assignment but that staff overreacted by sending him home.
"It seems like an overreaction to what happened," the student's father told CTV Toronto. "In my opinion, he wrote of a subject of bad choice. What they should have said, we will fail you or you can write something of a better choice."
Jones said he regrets writing some parts of the story but that he didn't deserve to be sent home, especially when university is just around the corner. Jones is three credits away from graduating and hopes to attend post-secondary education in the fall.
"It's devastating," the student said. "I guess I regret the ideas that were in it or some of the ideas that were in it but for it to come to this, I don't understand."
A representative with the Peel District School Board told CTV Toronto Jones has not been suspended but just sent home for a few days. They said this wasn't an isolated incident with the student but declined to elaborate.
With a report from CTV Toronto's Chris Eby
