CAIR-MN: Lawsuit To Be Filed Against Chisago Lakes School District For Failing To Protect Muslim Boy From Bullying

From CBS Minnesota:

By WCCO-TV

September 16, 2020

MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — The Minnesota chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations says it will announce a lawsuit Wednesday seeking changes in how a central Minnesota school district responds to bullying in the wake of a Muslim teen’s suicide.

CAIR-MN says a federal lawsuit will be filed against Chisago Lakes School District on behalf of Jacob Letourneau-Elsharkawy’s estate. The 15-year-old’s family says he killed himself in 2018 after repeated bullying at Chisago Lakes High School.

The school failed to provide the teenager with a safe learning environment, CAIR-MN alleges, adding that in some cases school officials were themselves bullying Letourneau-Elsharkawy

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