Overview
- The agreement requires a written apology to the former student, a listening session with her family, and reforms to prevent harassment and discrimination.
- The Minnesota Department of Human Rights will monitor the district’s compliance for five years and mandates training on enforced anti-harassment policies.
- Investigators said the assistant principal told the fourth-grader he could not stop looking at her, sought contact with her, and rested his head on her shoulder.
- MDHR reported the district received credible complaints from parents, teachers, and students yet took no meaningful action to halt the behavior.
- The assistant principal resigned in August 2022, no criminal charges were filed in the case, and the parents withdrew their daughter from the district.