Omg! A mother of a Santiago Elementary school is demanding answers after her fifth-grade daughter was allegedly called a “slave.”
The mother quickly went up to the school Monday to hold a protest where she claimed another student attacked her daughter with an offensive, racially charged comment, according to Abc7. “They’re sweeping it underneath the rug,” said Jasmine Harris. She also says she wanted to pull her daughter out of the school after the incident occurred.
Harris says this sad incident took place on March 1st. While explaining what went down she said, her daughter, Paris Barnes, was playing with friends at school when she said a classmate whipped a jump rope toward her and told her to “Get back to work, you slave.” In an interview with Abc Barnes said “It was very disrespectful and I just felt really hurt inside.”
The mother then took her frustration to social media and blasted the administration on the campus and the staff at the Santa Ana Unified School District. Harris wants answers on if the other fifth-grade student who called her daughter a slave has received any consequences, but it doesn’t seem that she has got any answers on that yet. “I want the little boy to get expelled. I want them to do something about this,” Harris demanded.
Other parents, including Jessica Garcia and Maria Gomez, were among about a dozen protestors on Monday, expressing dissatisfaction with how bullying was handled at the school.
“I don’t think it’s fair that so many parents are going through the same thing,” said Garcia. ” They see that it’s so many kids involved and there’s nothing being done about it,”
“There’s clearly a [systemic] issue that no one is paying attention to,” Gomez said.
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The school district’s superintendent, Jerry Almendarez, said his staff is working to sit down with the families involved and make both parties a part of a solution, pointing to a formal independent investigation underway.
“My heart goes out to Paris, to the young lady, and I just want to make sure that she gets the support that the student needs, but also making sure that we also provide the support so this doesn’t happen again,” Almendarez said.
“I’m not really comfortable going back to school because I don’t know if he’ll do it again because no one really, like, said if he was going to be in that much trouble,” Barnes said.