It shouldn’t take a lawyer to be able to go to school. But too often, it does.
An 11-year-old girl was expelled from a Georgia school and charged with criminal trespass because she wrote the word “Hi” on a locker. She is African-American. The white child who had been bullying her to go along with her own misconduct—defacing the walls and another student’s shoes with a marker—admitted to the prank. Her mother was able to pay for the damage and the white child was allowed back in school after a brief suspension.
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