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A lawsuit filed last week in federal court claims a black student was subjected to a "hostile learning environment" because of the persistent use of racial slurs, including the N-word, obscenities and insults by his black classmates at a North Charleston middle school.
Tameika Guest, who is suing the Charleston County School District on behalf of her 12-year-old son, claims the child was intimidated and prevented from learning by the behavior of the other black students at Zucker Middle School. The lawsuit is seeking a jury trial for unspecified compensatory damages due to a violation of the student's civil rights.
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Good for that woman. If I ever taught school, the N word would never be acceptable from anyone, no matter what race or ethnicity that person was. I would never tolerate it. School is no place for that.
A lawsuit filed last week in federal court claims a black student was subjected to a "hostile learning environment" because of the persistent use of racial slurs, including the N-word, obscenities and insults by his black classmates at a North Charleston middle school.
Tameika Guest, who is suing the Charleston County School District on behalf of her 12-year-old son, claims the child was intimidated and prevented from learning by the behavior of the other black students at Zucker Middle School. The lawsuit is seeking a jury trial for unspecified compensatory damages due to a violation of the student's civil rights.
Guest said Friday she made the decision to take legal action because she feels her son has the right to go to his neighborhood school without hearing racial slurs.
"It's unacceptable, regardless if he's black," she said. "It's not right. No one wants their child to go to school and not be treated fairly."
Under the school district's Student Code of Conduct, students are prohibited from wearing clothing with inflammatory or racial language. The code's definition of harassment, intimidation or bullying includes verbal communication that "demonstrates motivation by any actual or perceived characteristic" including race. Punishment for such behavior could range from a parent conference to a loss of participation in school activities to out-of-school suspension or even expulsion.
According to both lawsuits, district and school officials never effectively curtailed the racially charged behavior of students at either school. Erica Taylor, spokeswoman for the Charleston County School District, declined to comment on either lawsuit.
During the time Guest's son was enrolled at Zucker Middle, between August and November of 2013, he was frequently subjected to racial slurs and obscenities by other students, according to the lawsuit. The use of the offensive language was so constant that it was "severe and pervasive enough to create an educational environment that a young man of (the child's) age would find hostile, abusive and intimidating," the lawsuit said.
The school district, the lawsuit claims, failed to enforce the district's Student Code of Conduct to punish students for using inappropriate or racially charged language.
The environment at Zucker left Guest's son feeling "degraded, humiliated and in a frequent state of stress at being called and hearing racial slurs, insults and obscenities, including frequent use of the N-word," the lawsuit said. In November, Guest successfully petitioned to have her son transferred to another school in Charleston County.
"It's not my culture and it's not his culture," Guest said of using racial slurs. "It's degrading and insulting."
The environment the child endured, Kobrovsky said, was counter productive to his education.
"He shouldn't have to go to a school where he encounters that level of obscenities, racial slurs and the N-word," Kobrovsky said. "That's certainly detrimental to learning for any student."
Kudos to her. As she said it's not their culture, it's degrading, insulting & they reject it. There is no reason any student should have to endure those kind of insults. There is no reason Black students should be allowed to speak like that in a public school. The flip side to this is that if she wins the school will have to enforce this & then Black suspensions/disciplinary action will rise, which in turn will have people screaming "racism" at the school.
I wonder if it was the "N word" that ends in "er" or the one that ends in "a".
So many rules today with this "racism" stuff.
I think they are different.
Mr. Tupac Shakur, is credited for creating the acronym for N..A, which stands for “never ignorant getting goals accomplished.” If I remembered this right.
Mr. Tupac Shakur, is credited for creating the acronym for N..A, which stands for “never ignorant getting goals accomplished.” If I remembered this right.
So no problem then if us White people call industrious Blacks who're "getting goals accomplished" N'as then?
So no problem then if us White people call industrious Blacks who're "getting goals accomplished" N'as then?
huh?
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