Hawkins County School District, where students allegedly called a Black classmate slurs, agreed to implement reforms under a Justice Department settlement.
A Tennessee school district where federal investigators said students subjected a Black classmate to repeated harassment, including calling him racist slurs, hitting him and holding a mock “slave auction” to sell him to White peers, will implement several changes under a settlement agreementA 2023 Justice Department investigation found that administrators at Hawkins County School District in northeast Tennessee let a “racially hostile climate” take root in two schools by being slow to...
Erika Qualls, the mother of a Black child in Mount Carmel, Tenn., first raised the allegations in a 2022 lawsuit against the Hawkins Board of Education. She alleged that her son endured a slew of race-based harassment during the 2021-2022 school year while he attended eighth grade at Church Hill Middle School.
The harassment followed Qualls’s son to high school the next year, according to the Justice Department investigation. Students called him “slave” and the n-word, and one student sent a Snapchat message reading “kill ,” the investigation alleges.Qualls said in a deposition that her son missed weeks of school and “turned inwards,” becoming socially isolated and losing friends, according to the investigation.
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