Lawsuit: Georgia school district lowered Black student's GPA after he reported racist Snapchats

LISTEN: A former student at South Effingham High School has joined a federal lawsuit against the Effingham County School District. GPB’s Benjamin Payne reports. New allegations were added Tuesday to a federal lawsuit against the Effingham County School District in Southeast Georgia, alleging retaliation by the district against a Black student for reporting racist and threatening Snapchat messages sent by white students. As GPB first reported last week, three Black high school students have sued the Effingham County School District, alleging a litany of civil rights violations. The plaintiffs have since amended their lawsuit to include Isaiah Jobe-Winn as a plaintiff, who is identified as a former student at South Effingham High School, located about 15 miles northwest of Savannah. Jobe-Winn alleges that the district retaliated against him for reporting leaked Snapchat messages in February 2020 sent by white students that included the N-word and threats to “assassinate them,” “execute them,” “set tazers to kill,” “cut their toes off everytime they run away” and “We gon teach em about Americas.” In response, according to the lawsuit, he was “admonished” for reporting the messages to high school administrators, and was ordered to write an apology. After speaking with news outlets about
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