A 17-year-old Jewish teenager with autism who wears a yarmulke returned from his Las Vegas public school with a swastika carved on his back last month
His mother discovered the swastika on her non-verbal son’s back.
The mother, who wishes to remain anonymous, told JewishPress.com that the school claimed that “nothing happened at school.” Her son’s shadow claimed that the teen wasn’t out of her sight and nothing happened.
The family filed a complaint with the Clark County School District Police on March 13.
“As far as I know the 1:1 (ed: shadow) is still working at CCSD (Clark County School District). Her job was to be with my son. If she did not do it I believe she knows who did,” the mother told JewishPress.com.
“The shadow has kept [my son] from class in the past,” she continued. “I dropped him off at school one time last year and I got an email from the teacher and occupational therapist that he was absent from class. I pulled my son out of school because it’s an unsafe environment.”
The incident is now being investigated by the FBI as a suspected hate crime.
“ADL condemns this violent, antisemitic act,” said ADL Nevada Regional Director Jolie Brislin. “Not only was this student targeted for his identifiable faith, but he was particularly vulnerable due to his disability. This incident illustrates points of intersectionality in how hate can show itself across marginalized communities.”
“ADL Nevada, in partnership with Jewish Nevada and SCN, has been in close contact with the parents, CCSD and law enforcement, and will be working with Clark High School to provide antisemitism education. School should be no place for hate and no student should be made to feel unsafe and threatened.”
(YWN Israel Desk – Jerusalem)
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After working for the special needs program if it was doing community AB
Or in Group homes I could say that 90% of the patients father and mother were normal… however there were some that were not. Some of them had even more needy attitudes than their children and unfortunately most probably I suspect that one of the parents did that I doubted that the teacher will do such a thing, they get paid too much money to risk their careers and his classmates doesn’t know anything about swastikas
Shimon Pro, please try and speak English. Are you insinuating that the parents of this disabled child carved a swastika on his back? Or that non-Jewish teenagers in Las Vegas don’t know what a swastika represents? Is the sky blue on your planet too?
Carved??
You meant to say scratched.
That shadow is way suspicious. 🧐