A student was confronted by a teacher at Muirlands Middle School after filing a lawsuit for being wrongly suspended for wearing “blackface.” It’s the latest aggressive tactic demonstrated by the radical left-wing educational bureaucrats at a school district in San Diego.
For those unfamiliar, a student from Muirlands Middle School was previously suspended “for an intent to harm” after a principal accused the student of wearing “blackface” at a school football game. Evidently, this was not true and an egregious overreaction by the principal. The student, identified in official documents as J.A., merely wore eye black, emulating what many professional athletes put on their faces during games. J.A. recently filed a lawsuit against the San Diego Unified School District over the suspension. He is being represented by attorney Harmeet Dhillon and the Center for American Liberty.
The latest controversy involves an incident at the school. After J.A.’s lawsuit received media attention, a teacher allegedly confronted J.A. on Friday in what appears to be an attempt to bully and intimidate him. The teacher insinuated to J.A. that his lawsuit was damaging the school’s reputation. No apologies for what a child was experiencing, but rather, a condescending accusation.
“You know you are giving the school a bad rap?” the teacher asked J.A., according to the letter’s contents.
As a result, Dhillon Law Group and the Center for American Liberty sent a cease-and-desist letter to Muirlands Middle School.
“No child should have to file a lawsuit to protect himself from manufactured hysteria and cancellation, much less face harassment and pressure tactics from his own teachers for that act of bravery,” Dhillon said in a press release. “But that’s what cancel culture now gets us: adults bullying children to satisfy their own political narratives. This school is once again demonstrating that they are engaging in a race to the bottom to scapegoat a child in their quest to find racism where none exists.”
Any objective person who read the story’s details could see that J.A. had zero ill intentions with his eye black. No one had raised any concerns or said anything negative to J.A. about it the night of the game. According to the principals and other school administrators, J.A.’s face paint was considered an act of racism and bigotry because of the sensitivities surrounding “blackface.” Yet, according to J.A.’s father, a black security guard at the game “complimented him on his face paint.”
But that won’t change the radical left-wing agenda put into effect by left-wing education aristocrats. The teacher’s comments demonstrated this. J.A. should have received an apology, not a scolding. It’s an example of the rabid toxicity and arrogance many teachers and administrators have in public schools today.
“It is unconscionable that an educator would blame a child victim for hurting the school’s reputation when J.A. did nothing more than tell the truth about the school’s despicable behavior,” Karin Sweigart, counsel for the Dhillon Law Group, said through a press release. “J.A. is the one who has been defamed and maligned; the school has only itself to blame for any reputational damage coming from its indefensible acts. This blatant attempt to intimidate and harass a child is yet one more illegal act in this District’s running list of violations.”
Instead of the teacher criticizing the left-wing, agenda-driven, aggressive principal who overreacted, the teacher targeted a child and said J.A. was damaging the reputation of the school. Yet, if teachers at the school think and act like the one who allegedly tried to intimidate J.A., does the school even have a reputation worth damaging? By all accounts, the school (and its district) has no trouble doing that on its own.