Update: 5:15 p.m. – strong> In the following statement obtained by HuffPost, the Henry County School District in Georgia said superintendent Mary Elizabeth Davis reviewed the facts in the case and awarded with local authorities- who do not accept the student was aware the bill was counterfeit- and has decided to reverse the disciplinary board’s decision to suspend the student. Davis also will review “the entire Code of Conduct and the procedure to be followed for assigning outcomes for student infractions.”

“We are in the business of educating students, ” the caretaker was indicated in the following statement. “And while it is our duty to ensure our anticipations hold a safe hear environment, we must never omit sound judgement in matters so closely affecting our students’ lives and their education. The Student has returned to class.”

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A Georgia School district is punishing a 12 -year-old honor student after he used counterfeit money to pay for his lunch. The boy and his mothers claim they had no idea the bill was forge and even entered a police report. Still, clas heads say they won’t lift the 10 periods of in-school dangling the boy received.

“The whole process has been biased, ” Christian Philon told Atlanta’s WSB-TV.

A straight-A student and competitor at Austin Road Middle School in Stockbridge, Christian said he was sent to the aide principal’s office on Jan. 10, after expending a $20 legislation “his fathers” caused him to pay for lunch. Christian said the school told him the bill was copy and committed him an in-school suspension.

“They said,’ You owned it, so you’re going to have to pay for it, ’” he told WSB-TV.

Christian’s father, Earvin Philon, told the news station he’d passed his son the money when he received it back in change after a acquire at a fast-food restaurant.

“I’ve never managed counterfeit money, ” Philon said. “I don’t know what it looks like . … There was not feasible when I gave it to my son that he knew it was counterfeit.”

When the boy’s parents discovered what happened they filed a police report about the copy legislation. They took a imitate of that report to a Wednesday disciplinary hearing at the school, but institution heads refused to budge on the boy’s punishment.

The panel, according to The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, is of the view that regardless of the context, Christian contravened the school’s code of conduct, which proscribes the arrests of counterfeit currency.

Across Georgia last year, approvals reported that thousands of dollars in counterfeit money were being wastedin the country, discontinuing up in the paws of consumers who are unwittingly recirculating the spurious cash.