Show The Herald Journal Logan Utah Sunday June 28 1987-- 31 Racial incidents have school district facing lawsuit ByGlenWarchd SPOKANE Wash (UPI)-A pair of racial incidents have left a blue-colleastern Washington school district soul searching and facing threat cned lawsuits from the parents of black and Asian children A lawyer tor me minority family claims the racism may be related to the district’s nearness to the Aryan Nations Church in Hayden Lake Idaho He represents a family threatening to sue East Valley District two years after teachers gave a Junior high student an award for a Ku Klux Klan ar costume And this spring Donna Crowley says she fled the district with her MM-stude- six adopted handicapped children after two of than — one black and the other — were physically harassed and endlessly Korean-Americ- an taunted as "nigger" “chink” and By March the name calling and the shunning of the two children escalated to anonymous telephone threats calling her “nigger lover" and inch ts of people pushing shop- ping carts into her’s supermarkets she said in said the most frustrating aspect of her Crowley children’s harassment wu the district staff failure to realize how destructive the daily name calling was Her black son is getting psychiatric counseling she says "He got progressively e“ Crowley said “He said things like he wished he wasn’t Mao He told me ’I Just can’t stand to be called nigger again’ He told me he thought about killing himself’’ She says the phone threats “to get out of town’’ and the district’s nearness to the white supremacist headquarters 12 Available In our Sporting Good Department Frnd Mayor Dmiqnn uproot her family and move to Spokane where she hopes to find acceptance for her children “I'm a single woman and I was alone out there Crowley said “I want going to take the chance that some sickle was to try to hurt me or my goiny 1 training session for the district's staff last winter to re- district east of Spokane Warren Burton director of the state office of Multicultural and Equity Education said complaints of racist name calling m Washington’s schools are routine He said he has a file of about 45 alleged racial or religious prejudice incidents buf the problems at East Valley are the most severe he’s seen “Two complaints from district is unusual'’ he duce racial problems The minority awareness training was forced upon the district by three Human Rights complaints based on what Burton calls “an intolerable” incident at East Valley Junior High in October 1985 when a student showed up at a school Halloween party in a Ku Klux State Human Rights ComKlan robe mission files show a total of four The parents of minority stuover complaints from parents dents were outraged when two racist incidents — knowledged Crowley’s and the Ku Klux Klan Ironically Crowley’s teachers not only failed to costume incident — have been children’s harassment peaked disapprove of the costume and filed in the past two years at about the time Burton's what it stands for but judged the hooded Klan robe “Best against the rural blue collar office was conducting a Costume" and photographed the student for the school yearbook “That is stupid” Burton said “That's something I can’t understand at all” After the complaints district administrators ordered the photograph destroyed but it somehow ended up taped on a black student's locker “We made an effort and we tried” Burton said of toe training session that apparently failed to head off the Crowley incidents “I don’t know what the next step is’ A1 Kitching lawyer for the Joseph Ramos family which has yet to resolve its complaint school said it is Safest the case over the KKK costume will go to court The family whose daughter was chased in the hall by the Halloween Klansman and later found the Klan picture taped on her locker cannot get an agreement from the district to create a race sensitivity program in the schools’ curriculum Kitching said They are planning to seek a monetary judgment against the district to establish a minority education center for the comAvailable In our munity he said The lawyer claims the honor Variety Department bestowed on the Klan costume I was a deliberate message “Suddenly here toe East REG f Valley Junior High teachers are saying this is good symbol — PRICE this is something to teach our B WITH THIS f kids” he said “The issue is 11 ' what kind of education are they COUPON ' getting in that district and what : kind of values are being two-da- y 1 REG PRICE WITH THIS mr yjh COUPON taught” ALL HREWORKS Dean Lueck assistant super-- ‘ totendent at East Valley in charge of equity issues said the school desperately wants to correct the problems but he j 4 A r'S 4 1 ‘ doesn't believe district is racist “I think what it does is show A t t yt we had a lack of awareness of concerns — a lack of '1 minority awareness is the best term" Lueck said But Crowley and the Ramos I family complain that if administrators are not racist they’re dangerously ignorant of deepening racist attitude in a district where make up less than 3 percent of the school population Lueck says East Valley isn't the only Eastern Washington district with racism problems Other school administrator have confided to him that they have had similar incidents he t v&’M non-whit- in time for the 4th! 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