Camden School District to Pay $700K After Teacher Makes Latino Students Eat on Floor

By Jim Walsh, Courier-Post

CAMDEN — The Camden school board has run up a tab of almost $700,000 for a costly lunch — one that Hispanic students were ordered to eat while sitting on the floor as a collective punishment.

The district recently agreed to a $120,000 settlement of a lawsuit brought by three youngsters involved in the February 2008 incident at Charles Sumner Elementary School. They were among a group of Spanish-speaking students who were required to eat on a gymnasium floor after one boy spilled a jug of water in their fifth-grade classroom.

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