The father of a 7-year-old biracial girl whose hair was cut by a white teacher without her parents' knowledge has filed a $1 million lawsuit against the Michigan school district.
The suit against Mount Pleasant Public Schools, filed Tuesday in federal court by Jimmy Hoffmeyer on behalf of his daughter Jurnee, alleges racial discrimination and names the elementary school's librarian, Kelly Mogg, and teacher's assistant Kristen Jacobs as defendants, MLive.com reported.
The filing also accuses the Grand Rapids school district of ethnic intimidation, intentional infliction of emotional distress and assault and battery.
The lawsuit argues that the child's constitutional rights were violated when Mogg took it upon herself to cut the student's hair in March after another student at Ganiard Elementary had clipped the kid's curls days earlier as a prank.
