The parents of fourth-grader Ka’Mauri Harrison filed a lawsuit against the Jefferson Parish School Board on Friday after their child was prohibited from receiving virtual instruction at Woodmere Elementary School in Louisiana for six days.

According to CNN, the family is seeking damages of at least $50,000 for mental pain, suffering, anguish and embarrassment, humiliation and loss of self-esteem, future counseling and tutoring and lost income.

While taking a virtual test in September, the 9-year-old’s brother walked into the room and tripped over a BB gun that was lying on the floor, family attorney Chelsea Cusimano said. 

She said Harrison turned off the volume on his computer so he could concentrate on the test and also muted himself as is required by students who have not been called on to speak. 

After he went to pick the gun up, Harrison exited the framing of his computer camera for a moment but reappeared with the gun placed next to him on the chair.

It took a few moments for the fourth-grader to see that his teacher was trying to gain his attention during the virtual session. According to court documents obtained by CNN, the teacher assumed his interruption was due to internet issues.

School officials then tried to reach out to the boy’s parents regarding the incident but were unsuccessful in reaching them, so they informed his grandfather, the emergency contact, that the boy had a gun during remote learning. 

Woodmere school officials initially recommended the fourth-grader be expelled due to breaking its policy on possession of a starter gun, stun gun and/or facsimile.

During a school hearing on Sept. 22, they found Harrison guilty of displaying a BB gun while receiving virtual instruction but amended the expulsion recommendation to school suspension for six days.

The 9-year-old student returned to his remote learning schedule on Thursday, Sept. 24, CNN reports.

Jefferson Parish Schools told CNN that it does not comment on student records and that it is the policy for teachers to use “reasonable disciplinary and corrective measures to maintain order." 

Cusimano said school officials went too far in connecting its on-campus weapons policy to the confines of Harrison’s home. 

On Friday, Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry announced his office is launching an investigation into the school’s “overreach” of power against the boy. He revealed that his office has become aware that several other students are experiencing the same treatment by this and other school systems, and he believes Harrison’s case warrants an appeal. 

"For anyone to conclude that a student's home is now school property because of connectivity through video conferencing is absurd. It is ludicrous for this All-American kid to be punished for taking responsible actions just as it is for his parents to be accused of neglect," Landry said.

Similarly, back in August, a Black 12-year-old student at a Colorado middle school had the police called on him after he was seen playing with a Nerf gun during his virtual class, as Blavity previously reported. 

The teacher told Isaiah Elliott that although she was aware the gun was a toy, she had contacted the vice principal who in turn contacted the school resource officer. He was later suspended from school and now has a police record because of the incident.