School District That Suspended Kids Over BB Guns At Home Forced To Pay Up

[livingston]

School District That Suspended Kids Over BB Guns At Home Forced To Pay Up

You may recall the story of Ka’Mauri Harrison, the Louisiana elementary school student who was suspended from school last year after a teacher briefly spotted a BB gun in Harrison’s room during a virtual class session. Harrison had simply picked up the BB gun from the floor of his bedroom and put it away so that his younger brother wouldn’t trip over it, but the mere sight of the BB gun through the boy’s laptop camera was enough to cause the Jefferson Parish School District to claim that Harrison had violated the district’s weapons policy, and they barred from attending class, even online, for several weeks.

Not long afterwards, a sixth grader in the same district was suspended for basically the same reason; an accidental and brief display of a BB gun. Tomie Brown’s parents ended up suing the school district in federal court, along with Ka’Mauri’s parents, and earlier this week the Jefferson Parish School Board decided to settle the lawsuit instead of trying to defend the actions of the teacher and superintendent in court.

The board agreed to pay Harrison’s family $92,500 and Brown’s family $72,500.

School District That Suspended Kids Over BB Guns At Home Forced To Pay Up

You may recall the story of Ka’Mauri Harrison, the Louisiana elementary school student who was

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[dsdmmat]

Unfortunately the school district payed for it with taxpayer dollars. Too bad it didn’t come from the pay of all those involved with the suspension.

 

[Carlos Hathcock]

Which means they'd most likely be happy to do it again.

 

[Michael]

Sucks that taxpayers are paying for it. I agree that it sould be coming from the teachers and administrators pay. That being said, now it's time to take that money and invest it in proper homeschooling curriculum.

 

[Celt]

Good. Lets hope it wakes up more parents to pay attention to what the indoctrination centers are teaching their kids.

 

[kev74]

Sucks that taxpayers are paying for it. I agree that it sould be coming from the teachers and administrators pay. That being said, now it's time to take that money and invest it in proper homeschooling curriculum.

I heard an interview with one of these kids and his parents after the incident. I don't remember if they went with home schooling or parochial school, but they pulled him out of the public school.

 

[Acer-m14]

$92,500 and Brown’s family $72,500. that could have funded a nice home ec class and shop class

 

[Bigfoot]

 

[FP1201]

And I'll just bet that the Teacher and Administrator got tenured promotions....I'd have demanded their termination of employment as part of the settlement. Parents and Tax Payers often fail to realize the power they wield with the School Board; the Boards do not like it when Citizens attend and question their actions, just remember it's an elected position and elections have consequences.