A bi-racial high school senior, who can pass as white, was allegedly failed by his teacher after he refused to confess his ‘white dominance’ in class, according to his mother, Gabrielle Clark (pictured)<\/p>\n
A bi-racial high school senior, who can pass as white, was allegedly failed by his teacher after he refused to confess his ‘white dominance’ during a class at his Las Vegas<\/strong><\/a> charter school.<\/p>\n William Clark received a failing grade in his Sociology of Change class after he refused to categorize and label his racial, religious and sexual identities, according to a press release from Schoolhouserights.org<\/strong><\/a>, which\u00a0supports civil rights litigation in defense of students’ freedom of conscience in public education.<\/p>\n According to a lawsuit filed by his mother, Gabrielle Clark, in December 2020, William is described as having ‘green eyes and blondish hair’ and ‘generally regarded as white by his peers’.<\/p>\n His mother is black and his deceased father was white, according to court documents.<\/p>\n During the class, William was reportedly asked to publicly reveal his race, gender, religious and sexual identities and ‘then attach derogatory labels to those identities’.<\/p>\n ‘Students were then asked to “undo and unlearn” their “beliefs, attitudes, and behaviors that stem from oppression,”‘ the statement says.<\/p>\n Now, according to his mother, Gabrielle, who sued his school Democracy Preparatory Academy at Agassi Campus in Las Vegas, they’re unsure if he’ll be able to graduate after being handed a failing grade.<\/p>\n The lawsuit targets Democracy Prep for violating their constitutional free speech and due process rights.\u00a0William and his mother, who is a single parent, says that he was compelled ‘to make professions about his racial, sexual, gender and religious identities in verbal class exercises and in graded, written homework assignments which were subject to the scrutiny, interrogation and derogatory labeling of students, teachers and school administrators’.<\/p>\n