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The Independent UK
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Ariana Baio

Mom sues school after teenage son is suspended for gluing soda cans together to resemble a rifle, suit says

This is a screenshot of soda cans connected together to resemble a gun that got a 13-year-old student suspended from his Missouri school for three days - (Exhibit screenshot of mom Riley Grunden lawsuit against her son's suspension)

A Missouri mother is suing her son’s school district after it suspended the teenager for posting a photo of cans that he arranged to look like an AK-47 on social media.

Riley Grunden, the mother of the unnamed 13-year-old boy, has sued the Mountain View-Birch Tree School District in Howell, Missouri, alleging that the school infringed on her son’s First and 14th Amendment rights when it issued him a three-day suspension last September.

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