ROCKFORD, Ill. (WTVO) – The former Rockford-area attorney who brought a federal lawsuit against Rockford Christian Schools earlier this year spoke out about the case Monday.
Jenna Ewing, who recently moved to Florida, is an attorney for Chicago-based Levin & Perconti, filed the complaint after a male student started bullying her then-eighth-grade daughter just days after the 2022-23 school year began.
“It was racially motivated from the beginning,” Ewing said. “I really tried to use the channels of the school to address it. And it’s another child, so I’m not to make too much out of it. I want the adults to get in the room and handle some of this.”
Ewing said the bullying began Aug. 21, 2022, when the male student used repeated racial slurs directed at Ewing’s daughter, who is bi-racial, in the hallways of the school.
She said officials did not punish the student for the Aug. 21 incident and that the bullying intensified.
“About two weeks into school, she was at a football game, when the boy hit her and was using the same terminology,” she said.