Portland mother says it was racist to expel black daughter from school after teen was caught selling DRUGS

An Oregon mother whose black daughter was caught selling drugs to other students has accused school officials of racism after they expelled her over the offense.

Janet Neron-Nyangoro claims her child was unfairly targeted because she was one of a handful of black pupils at Sunset High School in Beaverton in 2019.

But her now-adult daughter was caught selling Adderall, a prescription medication used to treat attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder which often doubles as a ‘study drug’.

She claims that teachers forced her to pull up her shirt and band of her sports bra away from her body to expose the concealed drugs.

Despite it being her first offense, she was expelled and given the option to return a year later.

This prompted her mom to file a complaint against the school district which ultimately found that the expulsion followed policy and was not discriminatory.

But Neron-Nyangoro told Oregon Live that the incident scarred her daughter: ‘Does she like college? Does she like school? No.’

Neron-Nyangoro said that her daughter was one of only 30 black students at the high school, and alleged that she was unfairly picked on by the teachers.

Janet Neron-Nyangoro slammed Sunset High School in Beaverton, Oregon, for expelling her daughter for selling Adderall and claimed their motivations were racist

She also claimed that rather than send her daughter back to the high school a year later, she was also offered the chance to send her daughter to Bridges Academy, which she termed a ‘segregation school’.

While Sunset High School had just 30 black students, representing 1.4 percent of all students, Bridges Academy was made up largely of students of color.

An official described the academy as being ‘designed to support students who had been expelled from their comprehensive schools’ and is intended to re-integrate students back to schools after their expulsion.

Neron-Nyangoro’s daughter admitted to Oregon Live that she, ‘was not around the right group of people’ at the time and her friends often smoked marijuana and took Xanax.

She said she enjoyed Bridges Academy because it gave her one-on-one teaching.

‘It was one-on-one, helping kids so they can actually succeed,’ she said.