Tuesday, January 20, 2009

HAWAII TOLERANCE






School discrimination probe results in deal


The investigation by the Office for Civil Rights of the U.S. Department of E ducation was not a lawsuit and did not involve a money settlement. Instead, the state Department of Education agreed to carry out 26 corrective actions.

The girl was afraid to report the attack because school policy was to suspend anyone in a fight, without regard to who was the attacker and who was the victim.

Mohr said her daughters are now in high school, but a teacher at the intermediate school told her Samoans are now a target. "It's still happening," Mohr said.sults in deal

When Mohr called the mother, the woman said the attack took place because "you don't know Jesus."


Mohr said her daughter's at Kealakehe Elementary School in 2004, and her jaw was dislocated the same day and her head was repeatedly slammed against a concrete wall .

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