School officials in Southlake, Texas, are refusing to negotiate w/ the feds to resolve four student civil rights violati

[In It to Win It]

NEW: School officials in Southlake, Texas, are refusing to negotiate w/ the feds to resolve four student civil rights violations.

The district argues, in part, that the Supreme Court's overturning of Chevron limits the Education Department's power to enforce civil rights laws.

The district's full letter to Education Department lawyers can be read here: https://resources.finalsite.net/images/v1722897358/southlakecarrolledu/uxuwicvi2rn5niu2z38y/ResponseLtrtoOCRsigned08052024.pdf?fbclid=IwY2xjawEeSCVleHRuA2FlbQIxMAABHcOV6g0oOxrXnarveXd-vrdsTFovupw8G94mrvpXIhNoF1jVHCuNUINWAA_aem_Nb0H2J1uoVOfGadmZZfBcA

And here is the district's statement on the cases: https://resources.finalsite.net/images/v1722897077/southlakecarrolledu/stkalikhninewz1jlnlu/Aug5BoardStatementonOCR.pdf?fbclid=IwY2xjawEeSCdleHRuA2FlbQIxMAABHSEMqVka2j6-S_1VNk-xhaauAVsaWTN5P_xQxvSd1KLgdMVB6vwex_vf3A_aem_jFeweR1tdLJLmv9kmTqrPw

Our story from May: Feds find civil rights violations in Southlake, Texas, schools

Feds find civil rights violations in Southlake, Texas, schools, students' lawyers say

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[iemanja]

1. Those parents of that rich suburb

Are subhuman pigs.

They object to measures stopping widespread chanting of the n word. What kind of awful parents do that?

[TexasTowelie]

2. The school officials are fortunate that they are a wealthy school district

since they will need to raise taxes to pay for the legal expenses in their battle against the Feds.

[B.See]

3. A Closer Look

for those who, like me, don't click on twitter links:

Feds find civil rights violations in Southlake, Texas, schools, students' lawyers say - NBC News The district will have 90 days to reach an agreement with the Education Department on a plan to address discrimination, experts say.

SUMMARY:

Three years after a civil rights organization filed federal complaints on behalf of four students who said Carroll officials failed to protect them from harassment, the DOE is attempting to negotiate a settlement with the Carroll Independent School District in Southlake, Texas, over evidently substantiated complaints of racism and anti-LGBTQ discrimination.

The students said they'd been subjected to a barrage of racist and homophobic slurs and comments for years at Carroll, including retaliation for reporting racial harassment. One student even thought of suicide after classmates repeatedly mocked him for his sexual orientation. The district failed to address it.

Southlake became the focus of national headlines in 2021 after conservative parents rejected a sweeping plan aimed at preventing discrimination.

A Black mother of one of the students said she spent years seeking changes that would protect minority students, but was rejected by school board members and conservative parents, who claimed she and others were "trying to force a far-left political ideology into classrooms" (as in, NO FUCKING RACISM, BIGOTRY, HARASSMENT AND DISCRIMINATION, no doubt).

Conflict began in 2018, after a viral video of white high school students chanting the N-word caused dozens of parents and students to reveal stories of continuous harassment and discrimination.

[uponit7771]

4. Yep, now the SC has to eat what they killed ...

[Solly Mack]

5. K&R

[intheflow]

6. So can the DOJ assume the case?

Or will they use the same excuse, “SCOTUS said we can be racist assholes, neener, neener, neener, Dems”?