Jessica,
My son is grown now but the same thing happened to him in elementary school. The black boys would call him racist names and push him around in the bathroom.
When I talked to the teacher she told me the black boy’s tale of woe, “druggie mother, raised by grandmother” etc.
I told her very sorry for his circumstances but MY son had the right to attend school without being bullied and called honky and other racist names.
I also told her he was NOT going to be their punching bag any longer and sometimes defending yourself looked like fighting. Said if he was sent to office for fighting while defending himself, she would be part of a court case for not protecting my son’s well being and his right to learn in a violence free setting.
But we left at the end of the year. And of course the behavior of those black students formed his opinion of blacks in general. The school system did those minority children no favors by ignoring and/or excusing bad behavior.
The private school my children attend now is about 50/50 black and white. The difference is the children know that the school will not tolerate any form of discrimination. It has actually turned out to be a pretty good thing becuse my children have learned that not all black children have been raised by their parents to hate whites.
The only racism I’ve heard of in my kids’ public school is black-on-white, but it was punished. However, the kid’s mom was all up in arms, defended her kid to the end despite that several kids (black and white) saw him attack another kid for being white. Parents like that promote the bad behavior in their kids.
We have a decent principal and some good teachers. We’re lucky.
DOCUMENT IT. These are Gov't bureacrats. Don't expect them to be rational or intelligent. Send a letter each time it happens. carbon copy the school district supervisor.