An elementary school is responding to reports that four, black female students were allegedly strip-searched by a staff member and the school’s principal.
Fox 5 DC reports that community members New York school board meeting to demand answers to why officials thought it was appropriate to strip search the 12-year-old black students they perceived as too “giddy.”
School officials are denying a report that four 12-year-old girls were strip-searched for suspected drug use at an upstate New York middle school.
Community members packed a Binghamton school board meeting this week to demand answers after reports circulated on social media that the girls, who are black, were strip-searched by the school nurse and assistant principal because they seemed giddy in the lunch room.
A community group distributed a statement at Tuesday’s meeting saying the children were “ashamed, humiliated and traumatized” after being told to remove clothing Feb. 15
In a prepared statement, dated January 24, officials say the girls weren’t strip-searched but asked to remove coats to have their blood pressure checked.
“No students were strip searched, nor were they punished as a result of the incident in question and they were allowed to return to class after being evaluated.”
To read the full statement, courtesy of Press Connects, flip the page.