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Port Jefferson student to sue school district for refusing to publish poem on George Floyd s death
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Teen says she s going to sue her predominantly white Long Island school district for $2m for refusing to publish her sonnet about George Floyd in their literary magazine
On Tuesday, the family of Ruby Ray, a 10th grader at Vandermeulen High School in Port Jefferson, filed a notice of claim, which typically precedes a lawsuit
Ruby says she is being discriminated against on the basis of race and color, because Respondents regarded the Claimant as a writer and student who identified with and promoted the cause of African-Americans
The notice targets the principal of her school, as well as the faculty adviser for the literary magazine and the school district at-large