Two unidentified boys performed a skit called “The Assassination of Donald Trump” in their 10th grade English class at Marshall High School last Friday, prompting outrage from at least one set of parents.

According to the parents, one of the boys used his phone to make a shooting sound effect as the other, posing as President-elect Trump, fell to the ground in mock death.

Barry Perez, Northside ISD spokesman, said “appropriate action” was taken to reprimand both the boys and the teacher, but parents Harold and Melinda Bean said the boys should have been suspended.

“Honestly I have run out of words to describe how angry I am and how shocked I am that they’re still in school today,” Melinda Bean said.

“It was an act of violence on our 45th elect president,” she added, saying that she’s heard of younger children using their hands to simulate guns on playgrounds that were suspended from school. She and her husband declined to comment on whether they supported Trump’s election bid.

Harold Bean also felt that the teacher’s apology, which she gave to him in person on Monday, was not enough.

“I don’t understand how the teacher can repeat an apology and be right there back at work on Monday morning. Though we understand she is apologetic, it does not make the situation right,” he said.

The district and the parents also dispute whether the teacher stopped the skit in time. For the class project, all the kids had submitted summaries of their presentations that were approved by the teacher ahead of time. But the two boys performed a presentation different from the one they had submitted.

“When the campus investigated this, they found the teacher did not condone this, she did not allow this, she was surprised as anyone else that this was mentioned, and she told the boys to stop and that it was not appropriate,” Perez said.

But the Beans have a different story.

“Pardon my language but I think that it’s a bunch of B.S. if they’re going to tell you the kids were stopped,” Harold Bean said. “I will agree with one part — that the paperwork that had been submitted was supposedly not what they presented. But then my question would be, after they announced the title of their presentation, why did she still allow it to be presented?”

After meeting with school officials the day the incident occurred and again on Monday, to speak with the teacher, Harold Bean went to the school again on Wednesday because his daughter had texted her parents to say students at the school were harassing her.

According to her parents, kids approached the daughter asking her if she was a Trump supporter and making her feel uncomfortable and unwelcome in class.

“She’s already been antagonized by these two boys from their comments and their harassment, which leads me to believe that a level of seriousness (from the school) has not been met,” her father said.

Perez said if they hadn’t already, Marshall High officials would follow proper procedure to help protect the daughter from bullying.

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