A Texas mother is outraged after reports of her son being harassed in school have not been taken seriously by school officials.
In an effort to stop the months of bullying and messages of hate that have terrorized the teen, a formal complaint has been filed with the Friendswood ISD Police and the local NAACP chapter.
With the allegations now being made public, the district is saying it will investigate the allegations, reinforcing its “strong stance against bullying” and commitment to providing a safe space for all children.
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The probe comes months after Brooke Gary says she first let administrators at the Friendswood Junior High School know that her 13-year-old son was being targeted by other students because of his race.
The biracial seventh grader has found himself on the receiving of multiple racist jokes and eventually a threat since earlier in the school year, his mother claims.
Gary says she found out her son was being bullied because of his race accidentally during a routine check of her son’s phone.
“It’s really sad. I cried this morning. It’s hurtful,” the mom said in an interview with FOX 26 Houston.
“They had called him monkey at school and made a remark about black jokes; about being able to jump, shoot and steal with basketball,” she continued. “They told him to go pick cotton,” invoking the practice of forced labor during American slavery.
According to the mother, the school’s administrators brushed it off as “kids being kids.”
“They said they don’t have racism or racist kids at their school. It was just bad jokes. It was just distasteful jokes,” she said.
Over the weekend of May 20 and May 21, the tasteless jokes became more radicalized. Gary said she read one message that used derogatory racial slurs and emojis…
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