A student’s BB gun was visible during his virtual class. So he got suspended.

[Andy Meek]

• Louisiana's Attorney General Student is investigating a case involving a student who was suspended over a BB gun.
• That might sound like sound like too small of a matter for a state's attorney general to be involved with, but here's why he is: The student is a 4th-grader whose BB gun in his room was visible during a remote learning classroom session he was participating in.
• His school had switched to a virtual learning model because of the coronavirus pandemic.

You don't often see instances of school suspensions being noteworthy enough to attract the attention of a state attorney general. Then again, these are anything but ordinary times, so consider this one more strange turn of events of the sort that's starting to happen with increased regularity because of changes brought about by the coronavirus pandemic.

The state in question is Lousiana, where state AG Jeff Landry said his office is now looking into the suspension of a 4th grader named Ka Mauri Harrison who was suspended earlier this month from the Jefferson Parish public school system. The young student got suspended over a BB gun -- more specifically, over the fact that it was visible to other students in his class since they were participating in a virtual learning session, now that the coronavirus has forced this and so many other schools to switch to a remote learning model.

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