An Oregon school district is being sued by a distressed mother, who claims a teacher threatened to kill her son; a gay special education student.
Filed in U.S. District Court, the lawsuit names five employees including teacher Brett Trosclair, who allegedly subjected her son to numerous acts of “harassment and discrimination.”
Shawna Dicintio filed both a federal First and Fourteenth Amendment lawsuit were filed. The mother claims her son’s constitutional rights were violated, and the suit will test the federal Title IX law, alleging sex discrimination.
According to The Oregonian, her son “told his friend that he thought another student was cute,” according to the lawsuit.
In the middle of a March assembly, Trosclair apparently turned around and told the boys to “shut up.”
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Then he allegedly threatened to kill them and throw them down the stairs.
The lawsuit states:
“Defendants had an unofficial policy, custom or practice of condoning harassment and discrimination based on sexual orientation. Defendants’ conduct toward Plaintiff was extreme and outrageous and constitutes an extraordinary transgression of the bounds of socially tolerable conduct.”
When Dicintio’s son — identified as “J.D.” in the lawsuit — and the student he was talking with complained, the teacher was placed on administrative leave.
According to the lawsuit, this wasn’t the first time staffers bullied her son.
The Oregonian reports that “in May 2014, she alleges, the school’s dean of students refused to help the student while he was being verbally and physically assaulted in the lunchroom.”
In September 2014, Dicintio alleges, another teacher told her son “to stop being a diva and a priss.” After Dicintio complained, the superintendent’s executive council reviewed the district’s policies on bullying and harassment. The district also offered multiple two-hour trainings so staff could learn about LGBTQ and gender issues to better meet the needs of gay and transgender students.
Still, Dicintio’s lawsuit says district officials did not do enough and instead caused her son “emotional distress, embarrassment, humiliation, anxiety, stress and fear.”
Students are rallying around the teacher, saying he was joking.
They’ve created a Facebook support page for him and on Twitter are using the hashtag #TeamTrosclair to offer support.
h/t: LGBTQ Nation
Captain Obvious
Welcome to the club, good luck.
Luis H. Lopez
Good!
wade.l
Of course the students that do the bullying will support the teacher that condones their behaviour
Captain proton
reminds me, the class clown held a paper-knife to my throat somewhen during junior high school but they didn’t do anything to him because “he was only joking”
Justin Weeks
I hope the mother wins the law suit cause that’s just crazy his ass does not need to be teaching kids
Dakotahgeo
These backward school districts will NOT learn until the Court wises them up with a good dose of money for the plaintiff! Why, oh why won’t they learn? A few $mill should help them learn their lesson!
DCguy
So the teach was joking when he said he would kill them?? I think I missed the joke.
14Allkids
@Dakotahgeo: This Mother needs to hear from those that are postive- https://twitter.com/DicintioMOM
Dakotahgeo
@14Allkids: You aren’t the brightest light bulb in the Chandelier of Intelligence, are you? I’m backing the mother and child, doofus! Go back to your basement and Play Dough!
14Allkids
@Justin Weeks: This Mother needs to hear from those that are postive- https://twitter.com/DicintioMOM
14Allkids
#Teamtrosclair #Teamtrump LOL ‘It was a joke!’ Trump dismisses, sound familar! ‘It was a joke!’ Trump dismisses controversy over saying he could shoot somebody and not lose votes- #Teacher threatening to “KILL” and throw a child down a flight stairs ‘It was a joke!’ Trosclairs students declare! As hostile education erupts as Trosclairs students seek out and bully by proxy this kid (JD), MANY feed off each other, knowing nothing of JD, attacking (JD) to defend teachers “ACTION” and teachers have been quoated by these students as being supportive of their “Cause” Also staff of this school have made public comments and written comments. Factors such as these assist in determining whether the conduct at issue is harassing and whether it is sufficiently severe, persistent or pervasive to have created a hostile learning environment. After almost a year an hostile severe enviroment was caused by Teachers actions (JD) has been isolated from attending any school beside online schooling due to repeative Social Media threats and in person verbal attacks while out in the community. A once straight A student- grades suffer learn deprived and this and other circumstances that school/district has fail to protect student or to provide him with adequated accomdations per three federal statutes, The Individual with Disabilities Education Act, Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, and the Family Educational and Privacy Rights Act. IDEA is a federal law binding in all states. Several other Federal/ Constitutional rights. Which has prevented this student from benefitting from his education. Depression, anxiety and other health factors are a direct result from the school and District admins lack of stopping destructive behaviours of teachers and bullying by peers. It’s all a joke” until it is YOUR CHILD right?
GayRightsNow
Here’s this pig’s rate my teacher page…
http://www.ratemyteachers.com/brett-trosclair/2483581-t
I can’t believe there are people actually sticking up for this dick weed on there and also on facebook.
https://www.facebook.com/www.RIPDINOSAURDANCE.org/?fref=nf
One mother on that page by the name of Diane Gudmundsen claims
“My daughter was so bullied by this student she had to quit her gymnastics class. I would definitely question this student’s credibility. This bullying was constant and unrelenting. This kid’s behavior constantly was distracting to the coaches and parents and other students. The problem was so bad we eventually quit the gymnest over 0roblems with this same student.”
Even if that were true and the gay son bullied another student, he is a KID, while a teacher is an adult and should know better. Even if a kid is being a bully it doesn’t excuse a teacher being a bully. Stupid mother. Plus if the school suspended the teacher it’s more than likely the kid’s story has some merit. It also wouldn’t surprise me if this woman’s daughter, by bullying, means he turned her down or he was “flaunting his lifestyle”.
Bigots always have a way of making themselves out to be the victim when they themselves are being the oppressors.