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The flouting of a reasonable request:

He said after he started at Endeavor in September - where he said he could make up lost credits that he couldn’t have received at his previous high school - he found Hispanic students there often were sent to the office for speaking Spanish.

On Nov. 28, Zachariah was on a bathroom break from science class when a friend asked him, in Spanish, to borrow a dollar. Zachariah said he responded, ‘No hay problema’ - Spanish for “no problem.”

A teacher overheard the exchange and sent Zachariah to the principal for speaking Spanish. It was the second time that day he was disciplined for using that language, Chionuma said.

“When she said she was sending me to the office, she pushed the intercom in front of everybody, and said ‘I’m sending Zach up to speak Spanish to you,’” he said.

Principal Jennifer Watts later told the boy she was suspending him for speaking Spanish. The discipline referral says he was suspended for a day and a half for disobeying “a reasonable request (not to speak Spanish at school).”