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At the news conference, the statewide Safe Schools Coalition issued its third annual report on harassment and violence. The district has a policy that is meant to protect all students from harassment, Talbot said.

A civil liberties group sued a suburban school district Wednesday in U. District Court for failing to protect an year-old student from years of harassment and violence. It has to stop.

Growing Up Gay Seattle : Kent School District On July 23, , the American Civil Liberties Union of Washington filed a lawsuit against the Kent School District and five administrators on behalf of a former student, Mark Iversen

Classmates began harassing him in school on nearly a daily basis, including pushing, shoving, and haranguing him with derogatory terms. Sponsored Content. The incident came after years of verbal and physical harassment for Iversen in Kent schools.

Officials, administrators and teachers in the Kent School District failed to prevent, and in some cases contributed to, harassment of Mark Iversen, the lawsuit filed by the American Civil Liberties Union of Washington contends.

Donny Jones was born with a heart that was a little bit different. District officials declined comment Wednesday. Iversen said the incidents started when he was in junior high school. The lawsuit seeks unspecified monetary damages, stricter enforcement of the anti-harassment policy, and stronger protections in the policy for targeted students.

Officials, administrators and teachers in the Kent School District failed to prevent, and in some cases contributed to, harassment of Mark Iversen, the lawsuit filed by the American Civil.

Iversen v Kent Sch :

Iversen, now 20 and a student at South Seattle Community College, later transferred to Kentwood High, where he graduated in He says that when students teased him in his freshman year with anti-gay taunts, he eventually approached a school official to report the abuse.

What can you do to stop it? Among other incidents, the lawsuit alleges Iversen was pushed into lockers with a broomstick and subjected to anti-gay epithets while two nearby teachers failed to intervene. "Mark, what did you do to start this?".

By seventh grade, the notion that Mark was gay spread through his junior high school. He switched high schools four times before graduating this year from Kentwood High School.