ATLANTA — A high school student who was suspended over an entry in her personal journal has filed a lawsuit against school officials.

The lawsuit was filed on Oct. 5 by the family of Rachel Boim. It asks that the incident be cleared from her disciplinary record.

The journal, which was not part of a class project, included a story about a student dreaming of shooting her math teacher. Boim, then 14, brought the journal to an art class at Roswell High School in October 2003 and a teacher confiscated it.

Administrators decided the journal entry constituted a threat of bodily harm to school employees and expelled Boim.

The Fulton County school board overturned the expulsion after it received news media attention. But the board let a 10-day suspension stand because she  initially refused to turn the journal over to her art teacher.

Boim, 16, now attends a private school.