The teen experienced months of retaliatory bullying after telling her parents she received an anti-Semitic photo from classmates, a lawsuit claims.
A New Jersey student is suing her former Monmouth County school district for failing to protect her from anti-Semitic bullying by her classmates.
P.W. filed a lawsuit against Monmouth County Vocational School District, its board of education, and several school administrators on Wednesday in the U.S. District Court of New Jersey. She is withholding her full name in the lawsuit to protect her identity. The student spotted several MAST classmates reading Adolf Hitler’s autobiographical manifesto “Mein Kampf” on campus, the lawsuit claims, even though they weren’t studying World War II at the time. She also saw various students drawing swastikas in their notebooks and on school lunch tables. Students would “give each other Jewish sounding surnames as a joke and then ridicule those names,” the complaint states.
The Jewish student’s parents reported the photo to the school’s principal, Earl Moore. The two boys who took and appeared in the photo received suspensions. A female student who joked in the thread about the photo being in the yearbook was also suspended briefly. “It seems most of the kids are blaming me for getting [the boys] in trouble instead of seeing that [the boys] were in the wrong, not me,” the student wrote in an April 2018 email to administrators that was reprinted in the complaint.A former student at Marine Academy of Science and Technology claims she was bullied by her classmates for being Jewish and for reporting an anti-Semitic act.
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