Dad charged with assaulting son in principal’s office

The incident was taped by surveillance cameras at Mt. Juliet High School earlier this week. The school has been in session for two weeks, and officials there asked Dan Weaver to come in because his son, Daniel, had missed three days of his math class.

The tape obtained by WTVF-TV shows Weaver first pacing in the office and then hitting his son and dropping him on a waist-high counter.

When Principal Mel Brown and another school administrator try to intervene, the tape shows Weaver scuffling with them. He was subdued after a school resource officer from the sheriff’s department intervened.

Weaver was arrested and charged with assault and disorderly conduct.

The father said his actions were inappropriate but he was angry that his son was reported to be cutting class.

“It was just something that I thought had to be addressed, I just didn’t do it in the right way. I probably would have done the same to my son at home, out of the way of camera’s view. All in all, I am highly embarrassed over all this,” Weaver said.

It turned out Weaver’s son had been going to the class and officials had made a clerical error in reporting him absent.

The state Department of Children’s Services has ordered the father to take anger management classes.