School record cleared for Alexandria boy who had toy gun on bus School officials in Alexandria have cleared a disciplinary incident from the permanent record of a 10-year-old boy who was arrested in February for showing a toy gun to students on his bus, according to the family and a lawyer. The request to expunge the record of the fifth-grader was granted in a recent letter on the basis of a privacy rights violation in the case, said Clint A. Carpenter, the family's attorney. Carpenter said he believes the violation occurred when school officials showed a video recording of the bus ride to other children's parents. "I'm happy," said the student's mother, Nakicha Gilbert. Records follow you, especially your school record. Once he starts a new school, he will be judged off of that. Gilbert's son was suspended 10 days with a recommendation for expulsion, a punishment cut short after a hearing related to his attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder. He missed six days of classes, his mother said. The school system has defended its actions in the case, which drew widespread attention in early February, at a time when sensitivities about guns have been heightened in the aftermath of the mass school shooting in Newtown, Conn. By the time school officials called police to MacArthur Elementary School on Feb. 5, they had removed the gun from the boy's backpack and knew it was a plastic toy with a bright-orange tip. The bus incident happened the previous day. Discussing the case last week, Alexandria Superintendent Morton Sherman told a meeting organized by the Alexandria branch of the NAACP that "a credible threat" justified the decision to bring in police, according to WRC (Channel 4). "I'm not sure, at least from the school point of view, that there was an injustice," Sherman said. School officials had no further comment on the case this week and said they do not discuss individual student records. The child's family is asking Alexandria school leaders for more clarity about why and how the case unfolded as it did. After police arrested the child, he was fingerprinted and charged with brandishing a weapon. The court case has been dropped. Last week the family's attorney renewed a request for explanation in a letter. On Wednesday, Gilbert said she still wants to know why police were called about a toy. "That's what bothers me the most," she said.