Tuesday, February 4th 2025, 7:08 pm
Parents whose child was berated with an onslaught of racial slurs spewed from a fellow classmate are calling for change.
The incident was caught on video, and this can be heard:
Get your [expletive] out my chair [expletive]. Before I sock your [expletive, expletive.]
The disturbing incident happened inside a Little Axe High School classroom and was captured on video.
“Rage, very angry, that this has yet happened again because this has happened before. And leadership, it fell on deaf ears,” said the student’s mother, Sacha Almanza.
To make matters worse, the school's vice principal was caught on a recording, mocking the concerned family.
News 9 was interviewing Sacha Almanza and her husband when Vice Principal Amie Lampkin called them.
Lampkin's conversation with another colleague was captured on the couple's voicemail after she believed she had already hung up.
“He should not have to learn how to accept abuse; it's unacceptable in any form or fashion,” said Sacha.
The video of her 17-year-old son being berated by a fellow classmate brought out Sacha’s inner mama bear.
“I felt like I had to advocate for my child and if that made me a pariah then I was going to do it,” said Sacha.
The student became angry when Sacha’s son sat in his assigned seat.
“Why is it acceptable that he learns how to choke down insults and is treated that way and has to suck it up? Why is that more important than the school doing something?” said Sacha.
The rant continued for more than 30 seconds--no one, not even the teacher intervened.
“The video speaks for itself. They’re used to it; it’s the culture they're used to hearing. And it breaks my heart no one stepped in to help those children,” said the student's father, Luis Almanza.
The district issued a statement and said in part, "At no time will racism, threats of violence, and behavior such as what was witnessed in this video be tolerated at Little Axe Public Schools."
However, the Almanzas say it's nothing but 'lip service' as made apparent by the conversation captured on their voicemail between Vice Principal Amie Lampkin and a fellow colleague mocking the family.
Lampkin: The bottom line is Sacha is feeling empowered, and her kids are feeling empowered.
“Maybe they don’t know what it feels like to be a minority in this country. Spoke to in that way, treated in that manner, less than human,” said Sacha.
News 9 reached out to Little Axe Public Schools Superintendent Jay Thomas.
Thomas said he believed the assistant principal was sincere, because they do want their students and parents to feel empowered.
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