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Last August, attorneys from the Rutherford Institute filed a complaint in U.S. District Court in New Jersey on behalf of a 4th grader at Upper Elementary School in the West Windsor-Plainsboro school district who was questioned by police, suspended from school and forced to undergo a psychological exam because he voiced his intent to "shoot" a classmate with a paper wad and a rubber band.
After nine-year-old Michael Parson was overheard telling a fellow student that he planned to "shoot a girl" with the "paper wad," school officials called police - without contacting the boy's parents - and demanded that they investigate immediately. Law enforcement officials visited Michael's home in the middle of the night demanding to question him and forbidding his parents to allow him to ride the bus to school the next day. Instead, the family was forced to meet with school and police officials for an "extensive" interrogation, after which Michael was suspended pending a psychological evaluation.
The Rutherford complaint alleges that Michael's First, Fourth, Fifth, Eighth, and Fourteenth Amendment rights were violated, along with the New Jersey Law Against Discrimination (he is black). Prior to his paper wad threat, the child's conduct had never required discipline.
Education Reporter
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