Gwinnett High School Student Disciplined For Burning Classmate

BUFORD, GA -- A 15-year-old Lanier High School student is facing disciplinary action after burning a classmate on the forearm in a science lab last week.

The Gwinnett Daily Post reports that assistant principal Jaclyn Burrell contacted a school resource officer who filed a police incident report, in which he described the burning as battery.

The incident report said the 15 year old “admitted to heating the tongs and then pressing the same against the victim’s extremity.”

Gwinnett schools spokeswoman Sloan Roach told the Daily Post that, typically, students are held out of school in these cases pending a panel decision on what should be done with them.

She said the teacher isn’t being considered responsible for the incident.

“Unfortunately students do things that are outside others’ control,” she told the paper.

To read the Daily Post’s report, click here.