Discrimination claim filed on Long Island against white teacher accused of repeatedly describing Black students hair as ethnic

FARMINGVILLE, N.Y. – A Black high school student on Long Island has filed a discrimination claim with New York state after she says a white teacher made repeated racist comments about her hair. Her mother calls the remarks hurtful, ignorant and a violation of law. It was in a cosmetology class at Sachem East High School. A 17-year-old Black student claims a white teacher referred to the student’s hair as “ethnic,” and then doubled down. “She said, so, if my hair is ethnic hair, then, you know, what type of hair do you have? And she told my daughter she…