‘It's the Climate': Mom Says Son Repeatedly Encounters Racism in Middle School

‘It's the climate': Mom says son repeatedly encounters racism in middle school

A Northern Virginia mother says her son repeatedly has experienced racism from other students at his middle school and nothing has curbed the behavior. Ashleigh Williams said students at Thoreau Middle School in Vienna have called her son the N-word so many times he’s lost count. “There are children who will use the hard R N-word, and when he has addressed it, there has been times where these individuals have then gotten in his face and said it …

Emails won’t fix the racism problem at Thoreau Middle School

My son came home one afternoon and said, “Being Black here is exhausting.”