Ohio Elementary School Receives Backlash After Video Shows 9-Year-Old Black Girl Forced To Eat Waffle From Garbage
The principal and a cafeteria employee at an elementary school in Ohio have lost their jobs a few months after they seemingly made a 9-year-old Black girl eat food out of a trash can after she had tossed it away.
According to Fox 8, the incident occurred in November of last year at Palm Elementary School, but the footage was just released by the district Wednesday for the family to see.
“What we see is a student finish with her lunch…again, a student finish with her lunch and she goes to throw the lunch away like hundreds and thousands of students across the country do every day,” Jared Klebanow, an attorney who is representing the unnamed student’s family in a federal lawsuit filed behind the incident. “We see in the video, this monitor, the named defendant, go ahead and grab the waffle out of the garbage and she appears to instruct the student to go get a paper towel, go back to her seat.”
The young girl didn’t want to eat her waffle and simply through it in the trash, Klebanow shared.
“She places the waffle at the table and then for a matter of minutes is talking with her, instructing her, as we know from the victim’s standpoint, that she needs to eat this waffle that was in the garbage and the monitor goes as far as to sit right next to her, as is alleged in the complaint, and intimidate her into doing so,” he said.
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“It certainly solidifies the student’s story and you know, unfortunately, in our world and society today, had that video not been there, it might have just been a child’s word against a teacher, an administrator, which is a tough spot to be in,” Klebanow said.