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Teen Sues Teacher Over 'Ugly,' 'Brat' Remarks

POSTED: 4:52 am PDT July 23, 2008
UPDATED: 3:24 pm PDT July 23, 2008

A former student at Mount Miguel High School is seeking more than $75,000 for the pain and humiliation allegedly inflicted by her choir teacher, it was reported Wednesday.

The student, Jade Ray, filed a lawsuit seeking damages against teacher Heather Hargett and the Grossmont Union High School District, according to The San Diego Union-Tribune.

In her lawsuit, filed July 9 in San Diego Superior Court, Ray alleges that on Valentine's Day Hargett selected several students to deliver singing grams on campus and "intentionally excluded" Ray. The 14-year-old asked why and Hargett answered that she "looked bad" and had no choir T-shirt, the Union-Tribune reported.

Ray then allegedly questioned the $15 cost of the required T-shirt and Hargett told her to leave the class. When Ray resisted, the teacher allegedly called her a "brat" and "ugly" and kicked her on her buttocks, the lawsuit states, according to the Union-Tribune.

Hargett has not commented on the allegations. The Grossmont Union High School District, which oversees the Spring Valley school, said in a statement that it has taken appropriate action to address the allegations but declined to comment further.

Ray's attorney, John Gomez, told the Union-Tribune that he offered to settle the lawsuit for $75,000 but the school district's board rejected the offer in May and he now wants a jury trial.

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