The U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Civil Rights is investigating a Lubbock-area school district for racial discrimination against a former student.
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LUBBOCK — of racial discrimination by Kristen Arnold, whose daughter was being bullied by a white classmate at Roosevelt High School. Arnold said her daughter, who is Black, was the only student punished after an altercation at school. Arnold also alleges that the school district’s officials further harassed and targeted her daughter, resulting in the student’s removal from the cheer squad.
A letter from the federal civil rights office said it will investigate the punishment and behavior by officials that Arnold alleged in her filing. It is not investigating claims that her daughter and another Black student were the only two cheerleaders selected for drug testing, the fact that the school did not hold a meeting for her daughter’s attention deficit disorder, or her daughter’s suspension for vaping which Arnold alleges the district did not provide proof of.
Parents of bullied Lubbock students were hoping the Texas Legislature would resolve the issue of identity-based bullying with
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