Park City School District failed to respond to racial, antisemitic harassment, federal investigation finds

Park City School District failed to respond to racial, antisemitic harassment, federal investigation finds The Park City School District offices in Park City on Tuesday, March 22, 2022.

According to the agreement, the district must now report how it handles all harassment complaints to the Office for Civil Rights throughout the 2024-2025 and 2025-2026 school years. Students hurled racial slurs against Black and Asian students, including writing and using the N-word; calling Black students “monkey”; and calling Asian students “dog eater,” according to the report.

“There’s been lots of reports of students using the N word,” the staffer wrote. “I think we should have some sort of assembly for hate speech and bullying. Explaining what the consequences are and that it’s not okay for them to use racial slurs.”Twenty-seven of the reports that investigators discovered involved antisemitic harassment, including students drawing swastikas, performing Nazi salutes and threatening Jewish students.

That included students “touching or rubbing students’ thighs, hair, butts, breasts, and private parts”; attempting nonconsensual kissing; and threatening sexual assault, the report states.

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