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Gabrielle Clark thought that things would be “smooth sailing” for her son William, but ended up having an “unbelievable experience” with her child’s Las Vegas, Nevada charter school, the Democracy Prep Agassi Campus (DPAC).
In a fundraising page on GiveSendGo, Clark claimed her son was given an assignment that required him to list “race, religion, sexual orientation, and disabilities” and to then assign labels to them. Her son refused, and teachers allegedly threatened to fail him.
“I am biracial. My mother was black, my father was white,” Clark told Jeff Charles on a July 7 episode of the podcast “A Fresh Perspective with Jeff Charles.” She then went on to explain she was married twice, once to a black man, once to a white man. “So, I have some kids who are three-quarters black and some kids who are three-quarters white.”
A Black mom is suing her biracial son’s Nevada charter school after she claims he received a failing grade for refusing to link aspects of his identity to oppression and dominance in a sociology class.
Gabrielle Clark and her son William Clark filed a suit in U.S. District Court of Nevada against public charter school Democracy Prep Agassi Campus in Las Vegas on Dec. 22, alleging a violation of constitutional free speech and due process rights.
William Clark claims that in the class “Sociology of Change” taught by Kathryn Bass, who is named as a defendant in the suit, he was harassed and punished for refusing to attach derogatory labels to aspects of his identity.