By Melanie Eversley

A Wisconsin school district is settling with a Black female former student for $862,500 after allegations that school officials ignored her complaints of multiple sexual assaults and racial discrimination.

The Baraboo School District agreed to the settlement with Dasia Banks and her legal team earlier this month, according to The Wisconsin State Journal. 

Banks alleged a pattern of racial discrimination and sexual assault going back to the first grade. Among the incidents: a male student known to be sexually harassing other students groped Banks and exposed himself to her during a class they shared two to three times per week; Banks was shoved into a locker and was the only one who was punished; after Banks received an anonymous note calling her a slut and the n word, a school administrator declined to investigate; a white male asked another white male loudly while in Banks’ presence if it was a hate crime to slap a Black girl; after Banks’ mother became a district employee, hoping to protect her daughter, both were subjected to racial slurs; administrators tolerated students wearing items depicting the Confederate flag. 

A district spokesperson would only comment to the State Journal, “The matter has been resolved.”