Missouri Teen Who Suffered Brain Injury in Fight, Kaylee Gain, Suspended from School for Fighting the Day Before

“I am launching an investigation into Hazelwood School District after a student was senselessly assaulted by another student in broad daylight,” Bailey mentioned in a statement obtained by the Associated Press. “The entire community deserves answers on how Hazelwood’s radical DEI programs resulted in such despicable safety failures that has resulted in a student fighting for her life.”

Hazelwood School District is majority black, with solely two % of the college students being white, in accordance with state schooling division knowledge.

District lawyer Cindy Reeds Ormsby wrote in a Tuesday letter to Bailey that his “obvious racial bias against majority minority school districts is clear.”

“Do you honestly believe, again, without any official verification or specific knowledge, that the fight on March 8th was a result of a racial issue between the female students that was caused by the HSD belief in the importance of diversity, equity and inclusion for all?” Ormsby wrote in the letter, additionally obtained by the AP. 

“What community do you represent as the Missouri Attorney General? Do you represent all citizens of Missouri? Or only the white citizens?”

While a listening to on whether or not or to not attempt the teen as an grownup is about to happen subsequent week, a petition has been put up on Change.org to get her to be tried as a juvenile as a substitute.

The petition, organized by a girl named Yaya Seven, recognized the 15-year-old as Maurnice DeClue, and claimed she was “defending herself from harassment and bullying.”

“She is multilingual, speaking four languages including Spanish and Korean, plays the violin in the school orchestra, played on her school’s volleyball team and was recently selected for college-level AP classes due to her academic excellence,” the web page states. 

“Prior to an incident on March 8th where she was seen defending herself from harassment and bullying, she had never been in trouble,” Seven continued. “Her work as a scholar was tainted by the bullying she had to endure at school.”

She went on to sentence the “racial divisions” she mentioned have been incited by the struggle and AG Bailey, and requested that “all aspects of her life be considered during indictment and sentencing.”

Seven additionally reported that the DeClue household has “received multiple racist death threats and have had people trying to dox them and release protected and personal information about the family and Maurnice.”

All of that is getting in the manner of a compassionate, truthful, and simply final result. The focus must be to hope for the therapeutic and reconciliation of each events, as this actually was a teenage struggle that ought to’ve by no means occurred to start with, however did and spun fully uncontrolled (for causes that the group at-large ought to think about and ponder, as bullying and violence is plaguing many communities throughout our area and nation). 

A rival petition organized by Ryan Smith merely states, “This needs to be handled in the adult court system based on the brutality of the assault.”