Lawsuit alleges racial discrimination at a north Georgia high school

ROME, Ga. (CBS46) – Black college students and oldsters are taking one north Georgia college to courtroom.

The scholars say they had been suspended for carrying Black Lives Matter t-shirts and protesting. The protest in response to this was white college students allegedly utilizing racial slurs and waving a accomplice flag at college. These suing say the white college students had been by no means disciplined.

Racial discrimination by a faculty district and its leaders is the essence of a 57-page lawsuit filed by Black dad and mom and college students from Coosa Excessive Faculty.

“I need to change the tradition of the Floyd County Faculty System, I would like it to be a greater place for all college students, and I don’t need racism to proceed, I would like it to be handled,” mentioned Lakeisha Turner, a CHS mum or dad who alleges racial discrimination at college.

For Turner, this lawsuit is about future generations at Coosa Excessive Faculty and in Floyd County in order that they received’t need to undergo what her daughters endured.

Turner’s daughters, additionally plaintiffs within the case, and different Black college students say they had been suspended after they held a protest in response to white college students waving a accomplice flag on campus. They are saying no white college students with the flag or collaborating within the protest had been disciplined.

“All of the African Individuals – they suspended them, they usually didn’t droop them. They didn’t droop me and I used to be yelling and loud. It’s as a result of I’m white,” mentioned one Coosa Excessive pupil who’s white.

Turner’s daughters had been suspended for 5 days however she mentioned this problem is greater than one incident. The lawsuit mentioned college leaders repeatedly failed to deal with acts of racial animosity and experiences of hate had been regularly ignored.

“It’s not unhealthy for them to say the ‘n’ phrase to my children or name them nappy head porch monkeys,” mentioned Turner.

The lawsuit says the defendants – the Floyd County Faculty District together with 5 college board members – violated the scholar’s civil rights of equal safety below the 14th modification. Their proper to free speech within the first modification and their proper to be free from discrimination and retaliation below the Civil Rights Act of 1964. For Turner – she says racism in northern Georgia received’t finish in a single day however by means of this lawsuit, she’s stressing it has no place in faculties.

“However you may’t convey that to highschool and people directors ought to have been morally compelled to guard these youngsters,” Turner mentioned.

CBS46 Information reached out to the district about these allegations however they mentioned they can not touch upon pending litigation.

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