Update: 2/14/2017 10:35 P.M.

The Wood County Board of Education met Tuesday with the mother of an 11-year-old boy suspended for bringing a knife to school.

The executive session lasted 35 minutes. No further action was taken when the board returned to open session.

The mother left the meeting after the closed-door meeting. Efforts to reach her by phone were unsuccessful.

UPDATE: 2/10/17 6:00 p.m.

The Wood County Board of Education is meeting next week to make the final determination on the suspension of an 11-year-old boy who brought a knife to school.

Colleen Fleming says her son Jacob has been suspended from Worthington Elementary School for a month so far after he found a buck knife in his backpack and brought it to his teacher's attention.

Jacob was suspended for a year because the knife was more than 3 and a half inches long, which is considered a dangerous weapon in the state of West Virginia.

She will meet with the board this Tuesday.

Colleen Fleming says her son is being punished for trying to do the right thing.

According to Fleming, her 11-year-old son Jacob and 17-year-old son Anthony went away to their aunt's house earlier this month. Anthony and Jacob shared a book bag during their stay. Anthony put a buck knife he received from his grandfather into the bag and forgot to take it out before Jacob took the bag to school.

Fleming says at the end of his school day, Jacob found the knife in his bag and immediately told the teacher. Once the teacher and principal were informed, Jacob was suspended for 10 days.

"I just feel like they're punishing Jacob for telling the truth," Fleming says.

The State of West Virginia considers a pocket knife with a blade longer than three and a half inches dangerous. Fleming says she was informed that the knife in Jacob's bag was 1/8 of an inch longer than that, which led the school to suspend him for a year.

"My main concern is that I don't want this on Jacob's school record because he did nothing wrong," she said.

"All he did was turn the knife over to the teacher and that was the right thing to do."

Worthington Elementary School is not allowed to comment on the matter due to student privacy laws. Fleming says she plans to meet with the school board early next month to argue over the final determination of the suspension.