I was totally sincere in my earlier compliment, btw (and thanks for arbitrarily and capriciously deleting the post) - the Bathawk (Hawkbat?) Signal fark is awesome. But it'd be even better with Herky's silhouette.
Or maybe BHGP is merely his frame of reference, and thus the example he used as a comparison. Which would not be presumptuous at all, really - merely a comparison of the already-familiar to the new.
Were the emails sent on school time using the school email account and/or computer, or was it his personal Yahoo or whatever? If it's the former, he's toast. If it was on his own time, using his own computer and own private email account, the school is going to make him rich-ish.