OVERLAND PARK, Kan. -- Joshua Somers, a 12-year-old Westbridge Middle School student, was suspended for two days this week after he asked another student if he'd "ever kissed a boy."

After Somers asked the boy his question, a fight ensued, but Joshua stayed out of it, KMBC's Martin Augustine reported. The boys involved in the fight were also suspended.

The boy's father, Marc Somers, thinks the district was way out of line. He says he was told his son was too close to violating the district's sexual harassment policy.

Somers doesn't agree.

"It's either sexual harassment or it's not sexual harassment," Somers said.

The Shawnee Mission School District wouldn't comment on the specifics of the disciplinary action. But officials said they looked into the situation, and they believe it was handled fairly.

Sexual harassment falls under the district's wider anti-discrimination policy, which forbids anything creating a "hostile, intimidating, or offensive educational atmosphere."

Somers hardly thinks that was happening.

"There was no sexual innuendo, nothing to that extent where you'd think sexual harassment," Somers said.