Overview
- Filed Monday in the Northern District of Ohio, the suit alleges Title IX violations alongside negligence and recklessness claims.
- The complaint says football players used homophobic slurs during the 2023–24 school year, including in front of teachers, and cites a lunchroom incident where food thrown at the student left a red mark.
- A teacher is alleged to have mocked the student’s appearance, and a separate encounter at a McDonald’s is described as public harassment.
- The student’s grandmother says she made roughly 20 calls over 11 weeks to administrators and head coach Dan Reardon without effective action, after which she withdrew him from the school.
- Ursuline issued a statement calling the new allegations extremely upsetting if true, asserting administrators followed policy and urging the public to treat the claims as unproven while related federal suits over hazing and sexual assault remain active.