A 12- year-old boy attended a bench trial Monday at Franklin County District Court after he was charged with criminal threat for bringing a pocket knife to his school in case a bully tried to hurt him again. - Adam Wineke/Dreamstime/TNS
He was called the n-word. He was turned away from a table of white students. He was told to “go back to picking cotton.” But after reporting these acts of racism to school officials in the rural town of Ottawa, Kansas, the mother of the 12-year-old bi-racial boy being targeted said her son didn’t trust adults at the school to protect him from his bullies. In fact, the mom said since the family moved to Ottawa in 2019, he’d dealt with repeated acts of racism and bullying. The Star is withholding their names for their safety. Time after time, his mother said she told school officials to address ...
