It’s a mostly defunct, despicable practice. Or so we thought.
This past year, Shantelle Hicks, who was an 8th grader a the time was subjected to the same treatment but not before the school tried to use her pregnancy as an excuse to expel her. After learning of her pregnancy the administration at Wingate Elementary School, a boarding school for Native American children from kindergarten to eighth grade, in Gallup, New Mexico, forced Hicks to leave the school. But kicking a student out of school because of a pregnancy is illegal. So when Wingate Elementary learned this from the American Civil Liberties Union, they allowed Hicks back into school four days later.
But apparently, they weren’t done with her yet, two weeks after she returned to school, a counselor and the director of the middle school forced Hicks to stand in front of her classmates at a middle school assembly while they announced her pregnancy.
Hicks told local television news station, KOB that she was humiliated.
“It was so embarrassing to have all the other kids staring at me as I walked into the gymnasium. I didn’t want the whole school to know I was pregnant because it’s not their business, and it wasn’t right for my teachers to single me out,†Hicks said.
Precisely. It’s hard to even believe such things are still happening.
While the school’s principal says the allegations are not true, Hicks’ mother Vicky has filed a lawsuit which seeks punitive damages and declaratory relief for violation of constitutional rights to equal protection. They’re also suing for the prohibition of Title IX rights against sex and pregnancy discrimination in education.
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