A black teacher has filed a lawsuit is accusing the Commack school district of allowing racial discrimination to occur, NBC-TV has reported.
Andrea Bryan, a high school English teacher, claims in her lawsuit against the Commack School District on Long Island that she “has been discriminated against and harassed by teachers and students” since she made a complaint about the lead teacher in the English Department.
In her suit filed Dec. 19 in federal court, she said the lead teacher had once “asked Bryan in front of colleagues, “Andrea, can you translate slave talk for me’?” The suit also said that Bryan asked the lead teacher about a bag of peanuts on a table in the English office, and he told her the food was “for whites only,” the lawsuit states.