A black mother in suburban Atlanta reported a school district aide threatened her daughter and used the n-word to "teach her a lesson," NBC 11 Alive News reports.
Jasmine Hawkins posted the allegations against a Gwinnett County elementary school employee on Facebook, including screengrabs of the text messages her daughter sent her following the incident (see below).
"The lunch aid (sic) asked my daughter how would she like to be called a 'n****r', and told her to look up the word in the dictionary. She went on to say if my daughter comes to another side of town, she would be shot," Hawkins explained. "She then asked my daughter, and another group of kids, if they would like to be shot!"
"I told them I am NOT comfortable with my child being in the same building as an adult who felt comfortable enough to ask her if she would like to be shot let alone taunting her to look up the 'N-word' dictionary," Hawkins continued. "As a parent, I feel helpless that my child's school are very slow to react, refusing to acknowledge the severity of this. I am a homeowner in Gwinnett County, and I send my child to school ensuring she is safe and protected, but they have failed her."
“The school did conduct a thorough investigation into this matter and the findings do not support what the parent is saying,” Gwinnett County Public Schools spokesperson Sloan Roach claimed.
Hawkins explained further during an interview with NBC 11 Alive News.
"I'm in hopes that it would end with her dismissal from working around peoples' children if she can't have proper judgment to know that that's inappropriate," Hawkins noted.
"For the climate to be as racially charged as it is and with the school shooting, for you in one conversation with my daughter to involve both, that's a hate crime," she said. ""I'm very frustrated. I feel helpless. I feel defeated...to have my daughter come home yesterday and say that she was afraid to go into the lunch room and there is nothing, clearly, that I can do."
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