” I can understand the police getting involved, I do not understand where the school has the ability to suspend the perp in this case since the actions he took were OUTSIDE of school property and not on school time.
That part I don’t understand.”
Taken in the context of almost all schools nowadays require students to sign code of conduct pledges and behavioral pledges (again, most of which include items like cyber bullying of another student and other non-school property/hours related offenses), then it stands to reason these are the grounds on which the school has taken disciplinary action regarding this incident.
Agree or disagree, but that’s what I would think is going on in this instance.
Frankly, that's stupid and lawsuits have proven they don't hold up in court. Schools in no way should ever have the ability to punish kids for what they do in their own time.
Schools exist for one purpose: education. Anything else is out of their purview.