School District in Massachusetts Facing Allegations of Ignoring Antisemitic Bullying
“The school became a hostile and isolating environment for Jewish students.”
For what it’s worth, the area in question here is very wealthy, very white, and very liberal.
The Boston Herald reports:
Massachusetts school district faces allegations of ignoring antisemitic bullying
A local school district is facing allegations that officials ignored antisemitic bullying and failed to protect Jewish students, as groups filed a federal civil rights brief with the Department of Education.
Officials at Concord-Carlisle Regional School District are facing heat from the Anti-Defamation League, the Louis D. Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under Law, and a law firm.
The Title VI Complaint filed with the Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights details the alleged hostile environment for a Jewish boy — who ended up leaving the school district because of the alleged antisemitic harassment.
There has been an alarming pattern of antisemitic bullying, slurs, threats, and retaliation at Concord-Carlisle High School and Concord Middle School, they wrote in the federal filing. School and district officials have failed do anything about it despite receiving numerous reports over the years, the groups allege.
“The antisemitic climate at Concord-Carlisle did not emerge overnight. It was allowed to take root and persist,” said Samantha Joseph, ADL New England regional director. “The school became a hostile and isolating environment for Jewish students.
“While the filing focuses largely on one student who was the target of the worst abuse, his was not an isolated case, and there is clear evidence that this was – and remains – a systemic issue,” Joseph added.
The alleged abuse included Nazi salutes in hallways, students dividing themselves into teams called “Team Auschwitz” and “Team Hamas” during athletic games, swastikas drawn in notebooks and on school property, and the use of antisemitic slurs such as “kike,” “dirty Jew,” and “go to the gas chamber.”
The director of Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging allegedly downplayed concerns about the use of the word “kike” as merely a “microaggression.”
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“For what it’s worth, the area in question here is very wealthy, very white, and very liberal.”
Concord.
You know — as in the bridge.
Once again the DIE crowd are revealed, albeit only allegedly at this point, as being on the side of anti-Semitism!
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