Parents sue Minnesota school system alleging their Black children were victims of constant racist abuse

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Raw Story: A group of parents filed a lawsuit against a school system in Minnesota, claiming their Black children were the targets of racist abuse from both students and staff, NBC News reports

According to the report, one Duluth Edison Charter Schools teacher allegedly cut off a student’s dreadlock and threw it in the trash. The suit, originally filed in April 2019, alleges a “culture of racism at the school’s Raleigh and North Star Academy campuses and school officials’ refusal to address it,” according to NBC News.



“There’s been a lot of frustrated families in the Duluth Edison community,” said Rebekah Bailey, an attorney representing the parents. “The families in this case, all they really ever wanted is for their children to be treated fairly at school. They fought long and hard to remedy their individual situations as best they could through the system. This case was only filed when they exhausted those opportunities.”

After an attorney for DECS requested to have the suit dismissed, at least two dozen nonprofit advocacy groups filed an amicus brief in support of the parents.

“The lawsuit said that white students bit, punched, kicked, pinched and spit on Black students and repeatedly called them the N-word. The white classmates also taunted them, calling them ‘negro’ or ‘monkey’ and telling them they ‘look like what’s inside a toilet,'”

NBC News reports. “In 2017, a white student at North Star Academy threatened to stab a Black kindergartner in the eye with a screwdriver because she looked ‘different,’ the lawsuit said. White students allegedly punched and kicked the girl, who is biracial, on several occasions. And, during one bus ride to school, an older white student punched the girl so hard, she had a bruise on her rib, the suit states.”

 

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  1. You should go make a strong case for the defense, which will make them think twice before bringing up a bogus case.
    I’m a lefty and I got a question for your ass: is there a reason why you write n/@@er with a capital N ?

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