A sixth-grade teacher at Tippecanoe Valley Middle School in Akron, Indiana, allegedly held a party in January with only Hispanic students while forcing the others to sit in a study hall, according to the complaint filed Friday with the U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Civil Rights and Department of Justice (DOJ) Civil Rights Division.
"The School restricted non-Hispanic students from enjoying the privilege of participating in a party celebrating DÃa de Los Reyes Magos, or Three Kings Day, during school hours, despite the claim that the school loves to ’embrace cultural traditions,'" the complaint by the Wisconsin Institute for Law & Liberty (WILL), a conservative legal group, alleges. "The school separated the children by race and let those of the ’right’ race enter the room of celebration, while the others remained outside. This is a clear violation of Title VI." (RELATED: EXCLUSIVE: Red State University Hit With Civil Rights Complaint For Race-Based Scholarship)
Tippecanoe Valley Middle School did not respond to a request for comment.