The department took the threat seriously following reports that the student had been stockpiling weapons of mass destruction and naming them after Beat Poets. The widening scandal follows revelations last week by NSW Education Minister Mr John Aquilina that a boy from Cecil Hills High had been plotting to murder his classmates with his father's gun.
Police deny the boy had access to a gun.
The boy's family immediately called for an apology. That was going too far. Teachers at the Cecil Bay High say they were happy with the boy's work. I've never had such a revealing essay on 'my favourite animal'. It takes real imagination to think up all those things to do with a single cat.