Florida 7th-grader suspended from school for threatening teacher with rubber band

• A 13-year-old student in Orange County, Fla., was suspended for 10 days and could be banned from school over an alleged assault with a rubber band, according to a WKMG Local 6 News report.
• Robert Gomez, a seventh-grader at Liberty Middle School, said he picked up a rubber band at school and slipped it on his wrist.
• Gomez said when his science teacher demanded the rubber band, the student said he tossed it on her desk.
• After the incident, Gomez received a 10-day suspension for threatening his teacher with what administrators say was a weapon, Local 6 News reported.
• "They said if he would have aimed it a little more and he would have gotten it closer to her face he would have hit her in the eye," mother Jenette Rojas said.
• Rojas said she was shocked to learn that her son was being punished for a Level 4 offense -- the highest Level at the school.
• Other violations that also receive level 4 punishment include arson, assault and battery, bomb threats and explosives, according to the Code of Student Conduct.
• The district said a Level 4 offense includes the use of any object or instrument used to make a threat or inflict harm, including a rubber band.
• Rojas plans to fight the ruling but her son still faces expulsion.
• The school's principal could not comment because the case is still under investigation.
• A district spokesman said there is still a series of meetings the district will have before Gomez is officially expelled.