“Giovanni was a minority because he was Caucasian,” attorney Wayne Schaefer said in his opening statement. “This case is about discrimination against a minority student . . . Our claim is that there was deliberate indifference because he was a Caucasian student complaining in a district where Caucasians are a minority.”
After his parents complained, administrators eventually removed Micheli from the campus in favor of home tutoring, according to Schaefer.
Officials later turned down the family’s request to have the increasingly depressed and withdrawn student moved to another district.
But Schaefer said the parents were told, “If we do that for him, we would have to do that for all the white children.”
An attorney for the school district said Micheli was never able to give school employees enough information about his assailants.
In describing one attack, Micheli told supervisors his tormentors were slender and black, attorney Jack Shields said.
“Had the district rounded up all African-American students who were thin, we’d be here for another reason,” Shields told jurors.
The attorney said school brass did everything they could to help Micheli acclimate to his surroundings, including placing him in clubs. But the measures had little impact — and Micheli used a racial epithet during one confrontation with black students, Shields alleged.
Finally, staffers ordered that he leave campus as a safety precaution.
He and his parents want reimbursement for his parochial school tuition.
I've always said both sides are guilty of what they accuse each other for.
Especially in America.
It's so weird, I'm in Australia and I kid you not, we have schools, workplaces etc with mixed races and no one gives a **** you're different. And one account of Racism and you're fired and no one will hire you.
So it's weird to hear this over and over from America.
Why do you guys find this funny? It clearly states its an area where it's mostly black people so he was bullied for being white? If it was visa versa you all would be screaming "RACISME" so I don't see why this is a joke?