7301: Teacher says school officials failed to protect him from racial harassment (fwd)

[Bob Corbett <corbetre@webster.edu>]

From: nozier <nozier@tradewind.net>

 Posted at 7:30 p.m. EST Thursday, March 8, 2001
 Teacher says school officials failed to protect him from racial
harassment

CINCINNATI (AP) -- A teacher who resigned from a suburban school after
racial slurs were written on his blackboard and left on  his voice mail
says in a lawsuit that school officials failed to protect him from the
harassment. Jean-Robert Cadet, 45, is suing the Madeira Board of
Education  and school district officials for unspecified money damages
and a  court finding that they discriminated against him on the basis of
race. Cadet is black and was born in Haiti.  Madeira school officials
denied Cadet's allegations when he resigned in February 2000 after four
years as a full-time teacher of French  and history at Madeira High
School.  Cadet said school administrators had not vigorously
investigated his  complaints.
 Administrators said they investigated Cadet's complaint that someone
wrote a slur on the blackboard early in the school year and could not
identify the culprit. They said they did not learn about the telephone
harassment until Cadet resigned.   Cadet said he now teaches French as
an adjunct instructor at the University of Cincinnati. His lawsuit was
filed Tuesday in U.S. District Court.School district officials were not
available for additional comment  Thursday.