In a disturbing new report, officials with the Department of Justice have revealed that Black and Asian American students at a school district in Utah underwent years of verbal abuse and bullying while administrators willfully turned their back on the issue. In total, school records show at least 212 documented cases of Black students being called the n-word over a 5-year period — and that’s just the start of the offenses the school district swept under the rug and completely ignored.
CNN’s Nicole Chavez reported on the federal civil rights investigation by the Justice Department, which “detailed the disturbing pattern at the Davis School District in Farmington, Utah in a report and settlement agreement released during the first week of December. The agency had been investigating the school district since July 2019.”
While approximately 73,000 students are currently enrolled in the district, Black and Asian American children and teens comprise just 2% of the student population.
