Long Island, NY - A middle school failed to protect an Orthodox Jewish special-needs student from bullies’ vile anti-Semitic slurs and threats, a lawsuit claims.
The $10.5 million federal suit says staffers at Eagle Avenue Middle School in West Hempstead stood by as schoolmates abused Gedaliah Hoffman for wearing a yarmulke.
Staffers caused “the bullying to become escalated by punishing only Gedaliah, says the lawsuit, filed last week by the boy and his mother, Lori Hoffman.
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