Police Search Home After Teachers See 11-Year-Old's BB Gun Hanging on Wall During Virtual Classroom

Police Search Home After Teachers See 11-Year-Old's BB Gun Hanging on Wall During Virtual Classroom
"...In the world of virtual school, however, there’s a very risky flip side to that window into someone else’s home, as Baltimore mom Courtney Lancaster found out.
Lancaster’s son, a 5th grader and Boy Scout who’s conscientiously working toward the rank of Eagle Scout, has taken three levels of archery classes and learned to shoot Airsoft and BB guns/rifles.
His archery equipment and Airsoft and BB guns/rifles are stored in his room on a pegboard.
After his BB gun was spotted during a recent virtual school meeting, a screenshot was taken and sent to the school safety officer with a concern that the “weapon was not secured,” the school safety officer contacted police, and police “felt a home visit was warranted.”
According to emails Lancaster provided to a Baltimore television station, school officials also felt her son was in violation of the district’s weapons policy “because he could not ‘bring’ weapons to school, just as he could not ‘bring’ weapons to virtual class.”
School officials did not fill out some type of violations report and contact Lancaster (as one would hope officials would do if a violation happened on a school campus), apparently believing a surprise visit from law enforcement was the better route.
A police cruiser pulled up to her home June 1 and here’s what happened next, as Lancaster told Fox Baltimore..."
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