Joined by her lawyer and her mother, Isabella Moore, 18, described how the last six months at Centereach High School have made her feel 'little,' she says after a math teacher allegedly dress-coded her for wearing certain clothing - yet the teacher said nothing to her white classmates who wore similar outfits.
"Like four other girls that were white, and nothing was said to them, but it was said to me," Moore said.
"She realized that I was there, and she seemed upset about it, and she made the comment that 'these Black kids are always absent,'" Moore said."She also said about , 'if you dress like a slut and I call you out for being a slut, I guess that would make me a racist,'" said the student's attorney, Vess Mitev.
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