Parents across the Lubbock area are fed up with local schools treating racism and antisemitism like minor inconveniences. Four districts—Lubbock-Cooper, Slaton, Roosevelt, and Lubbock ISD—are now facing lawsuits, federal complaints, and community outrage after incidents ranging from racist bullying and Instagram hate accounts to a student literally passing around a petition calling for violence against Jewish people.
Lubbock-Cooper, where Black students make up only 3% of enrollment, is being sued after kids endured months of slurs, threats, and whip-cracking noises in the hallway while administrators seemingly punished the victims. In Slaton, a Black student was disciplined for defending herself after repeated racist harassment. Roosevelt ISD allegedly pushed one student so hard with “discipline” that her mom pulled her out entirely. And at Lubbock’s Hutchinson Middle School, administrators decided a petition calling for antisemitic violence wasn’t worth a public heads-up, citing privacy laws.
School leaders insist they’re “committed to diversity” and “don’t condone racism,” while parents and rabbis alike point out that empty statements and half-baked “lessons” don’t make anyone safer. Instead, kids keep learning the real lesson: hate is tolerated as long as it doesn’t cause too much paperwork.
If this is what “zero tolerance” looks like in West Texas schools, one shudders to think what actual tolerance would mean.
https://www.texastribune.org/2022/12/14/lubbock-schools-racism-antisemitism
