A former student of the Davis School District has now filed a lawsuit against the district and a teacher/coach claiming that she was harassed and discriminated against due to her race. The lawsuit claims that despite promises from the district following a 2021 settlement with the Department of Justice the district still allows students to be harassed.
That 2021 lawsuit settlement followed a Department of Justice report that found the school district had, “… pervasive use of the n-word and other racial epithets, Black students being called apes or being told their skin was dirty or looked like feces,” according to Heidi Alder, the district’s legal consultant.
Under the lawsuit settlement, the district had promised to create an office to process reports of harassment and discrimination, develop procedures to report and respond to harassment complaints, send notices to parents, and more. However, the new lawsuit filed in November of this year claims that the district had still not met those standards.