Parent Sues Hoover Schools for Harassment, Racial Bias

0:00A parent in Hoover, Alabama, is suing the city school system in federal court, claiming they harassed her family to prove her eight-year-old daughter didn't live in the district. Tamika Shipman says officials went too far by telling family vehicles and her elderly parents, without permission, than yanked her third grader out of, school. It kicked off last October when school staff had the kid draw a map of her home, and she sketched her grandparents' place in nearby McCalla. Even though Shipman rents in Hoover and the properties in her name, officials dismissed her lease after chatting with the landlord and pulled the child anyway. The move hit hard. Her daughter was pulled from the gift of program, stud doing online work at home for months, battling depression and missing, friends. Shipman never got clear evidence or a chance to respond, feeling blindsided with no due process. Her attorney argues the school's residency checks might carry racial bias, hitting black families harder and violate rules protecting. Housing insecure folks or domestic violence victims, they say the girls should have stayed

1:03enrolled during any probe. Hoover school's defended as standard policy to only serve city residents. Shipman just wants her kid back where she's been since kindergarten, in that familiar spot with her crew, her older son even graduated from there, despite far from over as the lawsuit rolls on. Stay informed with Birmingham News Today, AI-powered updates. I'm Corey with The Story.