Teacher Asks if Student is Mentally Unstable Because of BB-Gun Photo

Last updated on: March 11, 2013 at 11:37 am by Nancy French

Teacher Asks if Student is Mentally Unstable Because of BB-Gun Photo 2013-03-11T11:37:35-05:00 Nancy French

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Joseph C. Phillips — the actor who played Denise’s husband on The Cosby Show (and later became famous as Justus Ward on General Hospital) is speaking out after a social-studies teacher asked his 15-year-old son if he was mentally unstable. What would cause a teacher to ask such a question? The Blaze reports:

Phillips explained for radio host Tony Katz on Saturday that California social studies teacher James DeLarme was walking by when he saw Phillips’ son and his friends looking at the picture. The 15-year-old has been working part time and chose to buy the Airsoft BB gun with his earnings, his dad said, and wanted to show his new purchase to his friends.

The teacher “snatched” the camera out of his hands, and when the teen asked when he would get it back, the teacher reportedly responded: “That’s for the police to decide.”

“It’s just a picture, Tony!” Phillips told the radio host. “There were no threats involved; there was no horseplay, monkey business happening at the time. It was my son’s camera; he shows it to his friends, who are all very interested and excited about it as well. The teacher happens by, snatches the camera, and that’s when the real nonsense began#…#”

The teacher then allegedly took the camera to another teacher, who said she was “disturbed” by the image. After scrolling through the entire memory and returning the camera, the teachers began to question the “mental state” of Phillips’ son, he said.

Read the whole, ridiculous story here. My favorite line was Phillips’s assessment of the social-studies teacher who initially questioned his son: “I’m not sure he’s qualified to teach social studies. He certainly isn’t qualified to psychoanalyze my kid.”

This post first ran on National Review Online.

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