"You look out one day at school and see your principal flying by a window. In several paragraphs write what happens next."
The Engineering Club declares their re-creation of a medieval trebuchet a success?
See that would get a A
...pity the kid who writes "One day the local religion of peace affiliate came to our school and give a presentation on the many uses of ammonium nitrate"
I was thinking something like "Tornado sirens wail, duck and cover."
But as someone else posted: it's a trick question. Someone with a vivid imagination could easily write something that would get them in trouble, and the kid realized it. His concern about "making fun of the principal" is the dead give-away.
The error was just compounded by brow-beating him about it, and suspension was absolute idiocy. As others have posted, I suspect that too much was riding on the kid's success on the test.