Report Discovered School Ignored 10-year-old Black girl’s complaints of bullying before she committed suicide
Almost five months after 10-year-old Isabella “Izzy” Tichenor’s death by suicide, an investigation releases a report about how long the school allowed her bullying to go unchecked.
A recently released investigative report commissioned by the Davis School District in Farmington, Utah, discovered that Tichenor had been bullied by her classmates and even teachers, CNN reported. However, they found no “direct evidence” linking the bullying to race or her disability.
Tichenor’s mother alleged her daughter was dealing with constant bullying at Foxboro Elementary due to the color of her skin and the fact that she had autism. Investigators found out that students and teachers said she smelled and needed to take a bath, it was too “difficult” to determine if the child’s race and disability were a factor.
“Issues relating to race, disability, and poverty sometimes intersect and when they do, can further complicate already challenging situations,” the review team found. “It can be very difficult to extricate one from the others.”
“When a student told Izzy she needed to wash her hair, this comment could have been borne out of racial animus, could have been an innocuous observation, or could have been a cloaked insult about poverty,” the report stated.
The report also found that Foxboro didn’t take action after Tichenor’s mother said the child was being bullied, according to the New York Post. Investigators discovered that employees at Foxboro didn’t show “actual knowledge” of the district’s definition of “bullying,” and the school is accused of creating an environment “in which bullying…could go underreported, uninvestigated, and unaddressed.”
Not long after Tichenor’s death, the Justice Department discovered the school district had a pattern of ignoring complaints of racism from Black and Asian American students. The Davis School District released a statement stating they were taking the situation seriously.
“We vow to continue our ongoing and extensive efforts to foster a welcoming environment for all students in the Davis School District,” the statement read.
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