Parents of five Black elementary and middle school students in Livingston County are alleging in a federal lawsuit that their children were subjected to “severe, pervasive, and persistent” racist comments while administrators looked the other way, reports Steve Neavling of Metro Times.
The suit alleges that white students at Pathfinder Middle School and Navigator Upper Elementary School called Black classmates the n-word, “monkeys,” and “cotton pickers and administrators at Pinckney Community Schools have failed to “take any meaningful action to correct the behavior or end the racism."
The students are as young as 11 years old, the publication reports. Whites comprise 92.3 percent of the student body at Pinckney Community Schools.
The Metro Times reports that administrators could not be immediately reached for comment.
