Seattle Litigation Group Represents Mother & Son in a Discrimination Lawsuit against Seattle Public School District
Details from the New York Post story
A Seattle school has been slapped with a discrimination lawsuit for allegedly putting a black special-needs second grader in a padlocked schoolyard cage. Source: The New York Post, Mark Lungariello, May 12, 2021
Details from the Washington Post story
School that kept 2nd-grader in ‘cage’ discriminated against him because of race and disability, lawsuit says a mother of a 10-year-old boy with special education needs is suing Seattle Public Schools for denying her child an education and for keeping him in what the former principal described as a “cage” in 2019, the lawsuit alleges....Seth Rosenberg, attorney for the mother, told The Post in an interview Tuesday that the district knew about the tactics of former View Ridge Elementary School principal Ed Roos but did nothing about it until a groundswell of parents started objecting. Source: The Washington Post, Lateshia Beachum, May 11, 2021 at 2:14 p.m. PDT
Details from a KUOW story
Seth Rosenberg, a lawyer with Seattle Litigation Group, which is representing Williams, said the "cage" where Jaleel Williams was locked seems to have been used only in the case of one child. But he said his office is facilitating complaints from other parents, showing a wider pattern of abuse at View Ridge Elementary School."There were other things that went on there, that we expect will come to light, that, while not quite as appalling, were disturbing all the same," Rosenberg said. "Our expectation is that by the end of this, we will find that it was a systemic violation, not just for this one child."Source: KUOW, Joshua McNichols, MAY 10, 2021 at 5:34 PM
Details from a previous KUOW story
Parents must be notified verbally and in writing when their children have been isolated or restrained. But Janelle Williams told KUOW that her son was the one who told her what had happened, at Flaherty’s urging. Source: KUOW, Ann Dornfeld, DEC 05, 2020 at 12:30 PM