Levka on Nostr: #LGBTQI #Oklahoma "As the Bay Area Reporter previously reported, Nex Benedict died by ...
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"As the Bay Area Reporter previously reported, Nex Benedict died by suicide February 8, a day after a physical altercation at Owasso High School in Owasso, Oklahoma, which he attended, in which three girls allegedly beat him. (Benedict used he/him pronouns.)
Police and media reports stated that Benedict's head was 'banged into the floor' during the February 7 incident. Benedict's mother substantiated the reports in an interview with British media outlet the Independent. The school reportedly did not call an ambulance for the teen and he was taken to hospital by his grandmother and was discharged from the hospital later that evening.
After Benedict's death, Kelley Robinson, a queer woman who is the president of the LGBTQ advocacy group the Human Rights Campaign, sent a letter to Miguel Cardona, the U.S. education secretary, asking the department to 'promptly begin an investigation on the circumstances leading to the death of Nex Benedict.
'Schools have an obligation to provide equal educational opportunities, including safe and affirming learning environments for the well-being of all students. We are deeply concerned about the failure of Owasso High School to address documented instances of bullying, violence, and harassment against Nex, which occurred in earnest over the course of the previous school year and were in violation of Nex's rights under Title IX of the Education Amendments Act of 1972,' Robinson's letter stated, in part. 'We therefore urge the department to urgently investigate whether Owasso High School unlawfully failed to address the discrimination and harassment to which Nex was subjected.'
The department announced its findings November 13 — namely, that the district failed to uphold Benedict's civil rights multiple times and that the district's responses to harassment complaints were 'deliberately indifferent to students' civil rights.'"
https://www.ebar.com/story.php?ch=news&id=336524
"As the Bay Area Reporter previously reported, Nex Benedict died by suicide February 8, a day after a physical altercation at Owasso High School in Owasso, Oklahoma, which he attended, in which three girls allegedly beat him. (Benedict used he/him pronouns.)
Police and media reports stated that Benedict's head was 'banged into the floor' during the February 7 incident. Benedict's mother substantiated the reports in an interview with British media outlet the Independent. The school reportedly did not call an ambulance for the teen and he was taken to hospital by his grandmother and was discharged from the hospital later that evening.
After Benedict's death, Kelley Robinson, a queer woman who is the president of the LGBTQ advocacy group the Human Rights Campaign, sent a letter to Miguel Cardona, the U.S. education secretary, asking the department to 'promptly begin an investigation on the circumstances leading to the death of Nex Benedict.
'Schools have an obligation to provide equal educational opportunities, including safe and affirming learning environments for the well-being of all students. We are deeply concerned about the failure of Owasso High School to address documented instances of bullying, violence, and harassment against Nex, which occurred in earnest over the course of the previous school year and were in violation of Nex's rights under Title IX of the Education Amendments Act of 1972,' Robinson's letter stated, in part. 'We therefore urge the department to urgently investigate whether Owasso High School unlawfully failed to address the discrimination and harassment to which Nex was subjected.'
The department announced its findings November 13 — namely, that the district failed to uphold Benedict's civil rights multiple times and that the district's responses to harassment complaints were 'deliberately indifferent to students' civil rights.'"
https://www.ebar.com/story.php?ch=news&id=336524