We told you last month how school officials called the police on a seventh-grader who was playing with a toy gun while taking virtual classes from home. Now, we have another school that suspended a nine-year-old after a bb gun was visible in his room while taking a virtual class. The Louisiana 4th-grader was suspended from school for six days after a teacher spotted what turned out to be a BB gun on his screen during a virtual Zoom class on September 11. Now the 9-year-old's parents are suing. During a hearing last month, the school board found Ka'Mauri Harrison "guilty of displaying a facsimile weapon while receiving virtual instruction from Woodmere Elementary School," per the lawsuit, which seeks at least $50,000 for "mental pain, suffering, anguish and embarrassment, humiliation and loss of self-esteem, future counseling and tutoring and lost income." It also requests Ka'Mauri to be allowed to make up the work he missed. His mother called the school and was told the incident had been reported to the principal. The boy was actually recommended for expulsion but that didn't happen. The Louisiana AG's office investigated the incident and told the school last month that Ka'Mauri's constitutional rights afford him an appeal.
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