Hate on the Rise in U.S. Schools

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A new GAO report says hostile environments – including bullying, cyberbullying, harassment, hate speech, hate crimes and physical attacks – are increasing in public school systems.

Black students in Utah’s Davis School District have been called the n-word more than 200 times since 2015. They were told by white and other non-Black students that their skin was dirty and looked like feces, taunted with monkey noises and had their hair pull ed.

School officials in the district knew, but they ignored complaints from students and parents, disregarded witnesses who corroborated the mounting harassment and took no corrective actions, according to a Justice Department investigation released in September. source