'Better Off During Segregation’: Black North Carolina Teens Called Cockroaches In School Newspaper Faced More Racist Attacks from Adults After Local Broadcast

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Posted on 01/15/2025 7:30:21 AM PST by yldstrk

A federal appeals court decided this week to allow Davina Ricketts, a former North Carolina high school student, to continue pursuing her racial discrimination lawsuit against the Wake County Public School System, its board of education, and numerous school officials.

Ricketts alleges that school and district officials did not intervene and were “deliberately indifferent” to the racial harassment and cyberbullying she endured from other students during and after a student council election in 2016....

When election day came, Ricketts discovered her name and the names of the other three Black candidates were not on the junior class ballot. The omission was explained by school officials as a technical glitch with the election website and an inadvertent error by a student in charge of updating a Google doc listing the candidates’ names. But Ricketts told school officials it “looked like discrimination” to her....

The judges upheld Ricketts’ claim that her equal protection rights under the 14th Amendment were violated by eight individual school faculty and administrators involved in the events around the student election, finding that she sufficiently alleged all three needed elements: discriminatory peer harassment, deliberate indifference, and discriminatory intent.

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Where have I moved to? What is wrong with these faculty members and dumb ignorant students? This school Enloe Magnet High School in Raleigh, NC is for the "gifted and talented", supposedly. It sounds like your worst Southern bubba nightmare.

1 posted on 01/15/2025 7:30:21 AM PST by yldstrk

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