- The family of a student who died after a suicide attempt is set to be paid by
Chicago Public Schools. - Jamar Dent died from complications following a suicide attempt in 2019, Chicago Sun-Times reported.
Chicago Public Schools is set to pay $1.25 million to the family of a bullied child who died after trying to commit suicide two years before, according to Black Enterprise.
Jamari Dent, 13, died in June due to complications resulting from his suicide attempt in 2019 that left him with permanent brain damage, the Chicago-Sun Times and WGN-TV reported. Dent was also not able to walk or speak after the incident, the outlets reported.
The teen's mother, Teirra Black, filed a federal lawsuit against Chicago Public Schools in 2019, alleging that administrators failed to protect him, according to the reports.
It alleged that her son, who was a special needs fourth-grade student, experienced
The lawsuit said that Dent was called names by both students and staff, including "stupid" and "r-------," Sun-Times reported. It also claimed that the teen was called "a dirty little n-----" by a teacher, identified as a white woman, according to the report.
Black previously told NBC Chicago that her son said a staff member at Carter G. Woodson "slammed his head real hard to the desk" and "she had punched me in my stomach, she had choked me."
"This is one horrific, tragic example of an insidious systemic problem at the Chicago Public Schools," the mother's attorney, Jon Erikson, told the outlet in 2020. "We're talking about teacher on student bullying, and we're talking about tacit approval of the bullying by the administration."
According to reports, the Board of Education voted on the