4th grade virtual learner gets suspended for having a BB gun in his bedroom

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NEW ORLEANS, La. (WVUE) - 9-year-old Ka Mauri Harrison is a 4th grader at Woodmere Elementary and this year he’s a virtual learner so his classroom is his bedroom.

The school suspended Ka Mauri for violating a federal weapons law.

“I feel like they were picking, and totally just invading privacy. We can’t have no privacy in the house,” Nyron Harrison said.

On Sept. 11th, Ka Mauri was taking a test on the computer when his dad says Ka Mauri’s brother walked into the room and tripped over Ka Mauri’s BB gun.

“Ka Mauri picked it up and moved it out of the way, out of the walking path. When he moved it, he picked it up briefly and set it on the other side of him,” Harrison said.

According to the paperwork from his expulsion hearing, the teacher’s account of what happened matches Ka Mauri’s.

She stated, ‘He placed it on the side of his chair so that we could only see the barrel.’

“You know, she had an obligation to report this to the principal, but her obligation ended there and from there is where everything went awry,” Harrison’s attorney, Chelsea Cusimano, said.

Cusimano attended Ka Mauri’s hearing.

“The policies in place are so robotic in nature to apply to guns on campus. They went into this school year without any policy or procedure on how to handle the privacy of someone’s own home,” Cusimano said.

The Jefferson Parish School system told us they don’t comment on individual student records, but pointed to its online policies.

The policy stated in part, “Illegal carrying, possession or use of a firearm or dangerous weapon within the boundaries of school property or on a school bus is a crime.”

“This is a privacy issue. Not only is this a due process issue and an intentional issue of emotional distress on a 9-year-old, it’s a second amendment ‘right to bear arms’ issue,” Cusimano said.

“I think all of this could have been thrown out the window when the teacher found out what the situation was,” Harrison said.

Nyron Harrison doesn’t believe his home should be considered an extension of school property and says his son became humiliated when the school asked his classmates to write letters about the incident.

“Embarrassed and he felt like he did something wrong,” Harrison said.

School officials suspended Ka Mauri for six days.

“He’s now been submitted for a social worker assessment. This is not a child that needs a social worker’s assessment,” Cusimano said.

The weapons violation is now a part of Ka Mauri’s permanent public school record.

“It’s going to follow him going to college, picking colleges and whatnot,” Harrison said.

“This is a pre-judgment of a 9-year old that will impact his educational career for the rest of his life,” Cusimano said.
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Not to be confused with a similar incident in Colarado
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Mother calls school suspension of her son for showing toy gun online " insane" World News
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/09/08/black-student-suspended-police-toy-gun/?amp=1 Any feelings on this? He was suspended for five days. It was a zombie gun.
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Since children cannot own property according to federal law, the BB gun was not his.

Case dismissed.

Child’s suspension reversed.

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Again totally ridiculous. They are schooling from home and time to get over this idea that things in the home won’t show up. The child picked up the BB gun and moved it out of the way so that should be the end of this story. The child did nothing wrong. A six-day suspension is uncalled for and it time to stop this craziness.
 
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Those virtual backgrounds are going to become very popular at this rate!
 
BabyWitch said:
Personally, I don’t think disciplinary action should have been taken. Instead, he should have been asked to promptly remove the weapon from view. BB Guns have no place in a learning environment, even if you’re at home.
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Unless students are being taught how to fire them. A good idea.
 
The kid’s attorney is going to make mincemeat out of the school on this one. They’ll be lucky if they don’t end up paying the kid damages given that the gun was not on school property in any way, shape or form.

I agree that the correct protocol would be to give the kid a chance to remove the gun from the camera view and only if he refuses to respond to the request should any discipline be taken.
 
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So, now the privacy of children’s bedrooms, along the sanctity of their own home, are being violated! This is PRIVATE PROPERTY that doesn’t belong to the school, in case these Bozos don’t realize it, and kids today are becoming targets of some of the pettiest nonsense on the face of the earth.

I’ve had a problem with this virtual learning stuff from the very beginning. It gives too much opportunity for spying on people in their own homes, and opens them up to the risk of all kinds of persecutions.

One’s home should always be a safe haven from the outside world, even during a pandemic. And the jobs of the schools engaged in virtual learning is to focus on the lesson plans and NOT on things that aren’t any of their business. Their job is to teach, NOT snoop around people’s private premises.

WHERE does this madness end? Even kids aren’t safe, anymore!
 
It becomes the teacher’s right and duty to patrol the video feeds of students, when those video feeds are exposed to all the other students present. It seems a poor technical/administrative decision to me, but as long as young, impressionable minors can see their peers’ environments, those environments need to be policed.
 
It’s still a private home. It isn’t public property. That kind of intrusion is troubling, to me. Focus on the school lessons being taught. The rest of the stuff is nobody’s business. Unfortunately, social media has opened up a Pandora’s Box wherein nobody’s privacy is respected, anymore.

I know this is a sign of the times, but I don’t like where some of this stuff is going. Kids are being singled out and persecuted for things that have nothing to do with the task at hand, i.e., virtual schooling.

We should all be very, VERY concerned!
 
Parents willingly plant a video camera and a microphone inside their private home and then allow a minor child the run of the Internet? I think that is of major concern, yes.
 
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BabyWitch . . .
BB Guns have no place in a learning environment, even if you’re at home.
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Who says?

Guns are used at schools licitly in a proper context.

The Eddie Eagle safety program comes to mind.
Trap shooting teams as well (much MORE than a BB gun).

This was the child’s home. The school if they want to do this, has to realize they cannot dictate such terms into other people’s homes. (The administrator who made this decision should be fired.)

The kid is in the right. The school blew it here.
 
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To the readers here.

Just remember this mindset the next time a leftist attempts to reassure you they JUST want to take away YOUR . . .

Saturday night specials . .
“Weapons of War” . . .
Dangerous shotguns . . .
Handguns with “high capacity” “clips”.

Etc. etc.

They would take YOUR BB gun if they had the chance.

No. The national left wants to disarm Americans alright. And many of their myrmidons or unquestioning followers . . . Continue to follow right along.
 
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I see the Louisiana state AG is investigating this case and strongly criticizing the school system for having committed, in his opinion, multiple violations of the US and state constitutions. Good.

This isn’t just about toy guns or even real guns. If the kid’s home gets legally seen as some extension of the school during distance learning, then that has a lot of bad consequences with respect to search warrants and the like. It might also mean that if you’re doing a Zoom meeting with your employer, then all of a sudden your house is considered part of your employer’s property. Really makes no sense and disrupts a lot of protections in place preventing people’s homes from unlawful search and seizure.
 
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Cathoholic said:
No. The national left wants to disarm Americans alright.
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This. Instead of 1) moving the child to the waiting room Or a break out room in order to coach the child to remove the gun from view, or 2) making it a teachable moment to discuss the second amendment, proper use and safety, proper time and place , the school moves to suspension because there is a legal BB gun in view of the camera.
If it isn’t because of bias against the right, it sure looks like it.
 
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I haven’t read a great deal on this, but has anyone in the media discussed the fact that this institution, the school, suspended an American black child?
 
LOL, a little kid with a BB gun…millions of kids have them… paranoia erupts, then it degenerates to “THEY’RE COMING TO TAKE OUR GUNS AWAY”, more paranoia. Both sides need to stay on their meds and remain calm, God is in control.
 
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but has anyone in the media discussed the fact that this institution, the school, suspended an American black child?
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That was a topic in the story of the Colorado case, for which police were called out to visit the child’s house after he moved a lime green and black toy gun out of the way on the couch. Her school record now has him marked has having brought a facsimile of a gun to school.
 
There is a room in my house in which I have the old Nintendo Light zapper and Super Scope.

These incidents have me thinking those rooms would have to bee off limits to my nephew during school zoom broadcasts. The obvious non-lethal nature of these toys apparently would not be up for consideration if they were to come into view.

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