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Parents of 8-Year-Old Ohio Boy Who Hanged Himself File Lawsuit Against Cincinnati Public Schools
The parents of an 8-year-old Ohio boy who killed himself in his home back in January have filed a civil rights and wrongful death lawsuit against Cincinnati Public Schools. The lawsuit claims that the boy’s school did not adequately respond to the fact that Gabriel Taye was being bullied; nor did the school tell his…
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9-Year-Old Girl Called ‘Nutella,’ ‘Servant’ by Racist Bullies at School; Posts Viral Video on Facebook to Bring Attention to Her Case
A Washington state fourth-grader, who says she has been the subject of racially charged and threatening bullying since the school year started in September, has now turned to social media to bring attention to her case after she and her parents claim that school administrators and teachers seemingly turned a blind eye to the girl’s…
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San Diego School District Sued After Parents Claim Anti-Islamophobia Campaign Favors Islam, Grants Special Protections to Muslim Students
Well, I think I’ve seen it all after trying to wrap my head around this one. The San Diego Unified School District is under fire for an anti-bullying campaign that some parents now claim shows special favor to Muslim students. You’d think that being against bullying and standing up for an often targeted community would…
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Gabriel Taye Should Still Be With Us; Schools Are Unnamed Accomplices in Students’ Deaths
Editor’s note: Once a month, the National Interest column will tackle broader questions about what the country should do to increase educational opportunities for black youths. Gabriel Taye, an 8-year-old African-American boy, was caught on security camera Jan. 24, seemingly about to shake another boy’s hand. He was by the entrance of the bathroom at…
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Ala. 5th-Grader Attacked and Harassed for Being Black: ‘Roses Are Red, Violets Are Blue, I’m White, Why Aren’t You?’
A 10-year-old boy is being racially terrorized by little inbred elementary schoolers in Attorney General Jeff Sessions’ great state of Alabama. This be the year 2017. Taylor Armbrester, 10, says he has been called “black boy” and “retarded” by other fifth-graders since he transferred to the mostly white Chelsea Park Elementary School in Chelsea, Ala.,…
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Video Shows Bullies Kicking Unconscious 8-Year-Old Who Later Killed Himself
Surveillance footage from a Cincinnati elementary school shows students beating up an unconscious 8-year-old who took his own life two days later, police say. Carson Elementary School has declined to release the video that shows what took place Jan. 24 in one of its bathrooms, putting in dispute exactly what it contains, according to the…
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‘Go Back to the Fields of Ala.’: NC Middle School Students Chant ‘KKK’ in Viral Video
Somebody’s sweet little cherub who would never say a bad thing is at it again. This time, middle school students are caught up in racist controversy after they were seen on a now-viral video chanting “KKK” and making derogatory statements against different ethnic and racial groups. The incident once again rocks the Wake County, N.C.,…
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Video Shows White Student Calling Another ‘Black Piece of Shit’ at NC High School
A black student at Wake Forest (N.C.) High School says that he was tired of racial harassment and abuse—including threats against him and his family—and that that led him to get into a physical altercation with a white student. Video of the incident shows the black student dragging the other, white student to the ground…
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Parents Plan to File Lawsuit Against School After Daughter Comes Home With ‘Loser’ Written on Forehead
An Iowa family is outraged and dissatisfied with the response from their 10-year-old daughter’s school after she came home last week with “loser” scrawled across her forehead and a mustache and other markings drawn on her face. The child, identified as Raeann Long, reportedly cried to her parents as she explained that one girl held…
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NYPD and Brooklyn Public School Students Do Mannequin Challenge to Fight Bullying
Children from a public school in the Brownsville neighborhood of New York City’s Brooklyn borough and officers from the New York City Police Department did the mannequin challenge to call for an end to bullying. According to the New York Daily News, the students are from PS/IS 323, and the officers from Patrol Borough Brooklyn…
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