SPRING, Texas – A Texas 15-year-old has spent a week in in-school suspension and could be shipped off to an alternative school after he received an inappropriate text message and showed another student.

Joe Perez

The debacle is part of a sexting scandal involving numerous students that’s rocked Klein Oak High School recently, though it remains unclear how the scandal started, Fox reports.

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Erin Welsh told the news station her sophomore son, Donovan, admitted to school officials that he received a text message with a photo of a nude girl, and showed one other student, but did not forward the image before deleting it.

“A grown man gets a picture on his phone he’s not going to delete it right way, let alone a 15-year-old boy,” Welsh said. “They’re going to get it and laugh at it and show somebody.”

And that’s exactly what Donavan did.

“I did receive the picture. It didn’t have a face on it so someone could have gotten it off the internet and sent it to me,” he said. “I showed one kid at lunch and when he left my side I deleted it.”

Walsh and other parents are complaining that some students received harsh punishments like several weeks at an alternative school, while “the children who started everything got off the hook,” according to Fox.

“If you are a girl in this situation because there’s girls that had it and showed it, they are already back in class,” Walsh said. “If you’re a boy, you’re being severely punished for violating a code of conduct rights, which were initially violated by the girl herself who went the picture.”

Miranda Brown, mother of 10^th grader Joe Perez, told ABC essentially the same thing.

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Her son is set to go to an alternative school for a month for simply looking at pictures of naked girls sent to his phone, then deleting them. ABC reports the girls in the images sent the texts.

“At this point I think the only thing he’s in violation of is receiving the picture and having it on his phone,” she said.

“Three of the girls got together and told the principal that their photos have been going everywhere and they wanted it to stop, I guess,” Perez said.

School officials wouldn’t comment on any disciplinary action taken against students involved with the nudie picture, or provide any context about where it came from. Instead, they issued a lame prepared statement.

“There was an investigation at Klein Oak HS regarding inappropriate photos of students that were shown and/or forwarded while on campus,” officials said. “Klein ISD will take appropriate action regarding discipline of any students.”

The statement also came with a little lecture.

“Sometimes children make poor choices in life. Consequences for those poor choices are designed to train them to think prior to making those choices before they become adults and the consequences can be much more severe,” school officials explained.

“We held a Student Leadership Summit last month and the motto was THINK before you post on social media. Is it True?, Is it Helpful?, Is it Inspiring?, Is it Necessary?, Is it Kind? Our hope is that all students involved and those that hear about this unfortunate situation will THINK in the future before they participate in something they know is their heart is not appropriate.”

ABC legal analyst Joel Androphy told the news site said the students who received but didn’t forward the image did nothing wrong.

“The discipline should start with the young ladies and it should end with the people who transmitted the photo,” Androphy said. “You should not be disciplining the students who just kept it or deleted it.”

Welsh THINKS school officials are being ridiculous, and appealed her son’s punishment. Her appeal was rejected.

She told Fox she plans to appeal again this week.

In the meantime, Walsh said her son’s grades are going down the drain.

“He hadn’t had any school work in 7 days,” she said. “Now he’s failing two classes, getting two Ds and hasn’t had any of the accommodations he needs for his dyslexia.”