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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
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Katie Hawkinson

Jewish parents say their kids were expelled from their school for reporting antisemitism on campus

Brian Vazquez and Ashok Roy cited this social studies project depicting Adolf Hitler as evidence the Nysmith School for the Gifted allowed ‘antisemitism to take root’ in their daughter’s classroom - (Virginia Office of the Attorney General)

Two Jewish parents have issued a civil rights complaint against a Virginia private school for expelling their three children after their daughter reported antisemitic harassment on campus.

Brian Vazquez and Ashok Roy have filed a civil rights complaint against the Nysmith School for the Gifted in Herndon, Virginia, and its director, Kenneth Nysmith. The parents allege the school and Nysmith violated state law by discriminating and retaliating against their three children after their 11-year-old daughter reported antisemitic harassment, according to the complaint.

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