MCDONOUGH, Ga. — A 12-year-old Georgia boy says he had no clue a $20 bill his father gave him was fake until he tried to buy lunch at school, where administrators suspended him for using counterfeit cash.
Christian Philon and his parents said the bogus bill fooled them until a lunchroom cashier at Austin Road Middle School checked it with a marker and determined it was fake. School administrators punished Christian with 10 days of in-school suspension, the family said.